Volume 2

Hunterian oration, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons in London, February 14, 1826 / [Sir Anthony Carlisle].

  • Anthony Carlisle
Date:
1826
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hunterian oration, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons in London, February 14, 1826 / [Sir Anthony Carlisle]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [2] ticular Portion is more or less blended with vessels and parts not essential to it’s special office, but appointed for subordinate uses, for union, and for communication with the living whole,—hence, then, it is often difficult to discern the affinity between the texture of the instrument ge it’s destined operations. | i These perplexities have always beset the studies of Human Anatomy, and of Human Physiology,—but an additional obstruction accompanied the first steps of Medical Science among the Greeks, arising from Superstition, —for the Pagan Religion deemed the human likeness of it’s Deities to be an hallowed subject, and only permitted: this leading branch of Medical and Surgical Knowledge to be acquired through the medium of analogous Creatures, such as Apes. On the restoration of,useful Learning, and of. intellectual Liberty, in the Fifteenth,Century, the writings of the Classic Sages were eagerly and critically examined,—and in this zeal for information it was discovered, that the Anatomical descriptions, of GaLEen were unfit for Surgical guidance. Since that period, the knowledge of the Human mechanism has ‘increased. with the frequency of Dissections, and all English Surgeons are now expected to possess.a more exact and complete acquaintance with the structure, position, and offices of every part of our Natural body, than was : known to the most celebrated Professors. We may fairly congratulate our Brotherhood upon this creditable Progress, and upon the flattering hope of higher deserts, when the union of allied Sciences shall have rendered Surgery more rational, more safe, and more efficacious.
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