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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    [4 ] are cultivated by frequent attendance as Assistants, they may acquire the moral fortitude and presence of mind; which dangerous operations always demand. | The superior glory of Surgery depends upon the cor- rection, or the cure of bodily infirmities, by scientific minis- trations, —When those fail, and an incorrigible disease remains,—or, when an injury threatens the loss of lifé,— then the judicial sentence, which gives the Sufferer the choice of two dreadful evils, may be required,—and the arbiter of his fate must abide the consequences. | I am induced to dwell with more earnestness upon these cautionary remarks, from a conviction that a false con- fidence, arising out of Anatomical Pedantry, is very pre- valent,—And, unless it be restrained, some of our Members may become liable to the severe, and, perhaps, the un- deserved blame of legal Authorities. A much safer, a more appropriate, and, ultimately, a more honourable Condition, awaits the Cultivators and the Improvers of the essential elements of Medical Science,— Nature having assigned no limits to the useful Discoveries, which the improvable Mind of Man has yet to make. The wide scope of general Zooromy, commonly, but improperly termed ‘‘ Comparative Anatomy,” is open to diligence, genius, and youthful. ambition,—and,.Tare Hunrerian Coxzzcrion displays examples both of curious’ isolated facts, and of Physiological series, sufficiently apposite for it’s useful extension. * Surcery claims the designation of a Screncr, from several antient and modern Charters specially granted to Turis CottEcE,—and the Gentlemen appointed to deliver
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