The Hunterian oration for 1871 : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 14th February / by Sir Wm. Fergusson, Bart.

  • William Fergusson
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1871
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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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    to perform witliin the hour, when my allotted task must be accomplished. The grave has recently closed over the mortal remains of James Wardrop, Sir William Lawrence, Joseph Hodgson, Sir James Young Simpson, and James Syme. It has seldom happened that so many distinguished men have had claims for notice on occasions similar to this. James Wardrop possessed great natural abilities, and was an original thinker and actor. His essays “ On the Morbid Anatomy of the Human Eye” were much esteemed in their time, and his “ Observations on Fungus Hsematodes,” published at an early period of his career, forms to this day the standard work ; I may say the only one on the subject worthy of special note. Some of his published didactic lectures were models of power and simplicity, and his last great work Oh Diseases of the Heart” evinced the sagacity acquired by experience and age—a simplicity of practice, and a reliance on nature, which might be expected from a Hunterian disciple. The fact that he was the first surgeon in England who, after the example of Dupuytren, removed a tumour in the lower jaw by total vertical section of the bone, places his name on the list of high-class practical surgeons; and his modification of Brasdo’rs operation, his original distal operations, and the effect that all have
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