The Hunterian oration for 1871 : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 14th February / by Sir Wm. Fergusson, Bart.
- William Fergusson
- Date:
- 1871
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The Hunterian oration for 1871 : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 14th February / by Sir Wm. Fergusson, Bart. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![teeth, taken from their natural locality, flourishing in the cockscomb! Death abruptly cut short Hunter’s surgical career; but may we not claim for him, with all deference and honour to Eeverdin, Pollock, and others of the day, that he anticipated, by a hundred years, the scientific data on which the present system of human grafting or transplanting is conducted ? Here [pointing to a picture] is a representation of portions of skin, each, originally, not bigger than a Ulcer on leg, from a patient of Professor Wood’s, in King’s College Hospital. The white patches indicate the transplanted dots increased in size. pin’s head, taken from what Butler would have called the brawny part” of a boy’s arm, flourishing on an ulcer of the leg of an old lady above sixty! What would John Bell, were he now alive, say to this? But time warns me that I have still other duties B 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30473263_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
