The annual address delivered to the Royal College of Physicians on Monday, the 11th of April, 1892 / by Sir Andrew Clark.

  • Clark, Andrew, 1826-1893.
Date:
1892
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Credit: The annual address delivered to the Royal College of Physicians on Monday, the 11th of April, 1892 / by Sir Andrew Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Collegiate life, and the Laboratories Committee on the happy success, which hitherto has crowned their active and exem- plary interest in the work. FOUNDATION LECTURES. The Harveian Oration was delivered by Dr. Howship Dickinson. It was a very able, scholarly, and original per- formance. Felicitous in language, fertile in illustration, full of far-reaching thoughts, and remarkable for the ingenuity of its application of recent knowledge to the solution of some complex problems in Pathology, it bears witness to the value of that union which unites in one the Scholar with the Physician. The Bradshaw Lecture on Duodenal Dyspepsia was de- livered by Dr. Allchin ; the Croonian Lectures on the Progress of Discovery relating to Acute Infectious Diseases were delivered by Dr. Burdon Sanderson ; the Milroy Lectures on the Physical and Mental Condition of School Children, were delivered by Dr. Warner; the Gulstonian Lectures on the Chemical Pathology of Diphtheria, were delivered by Dr. Sidney Martin; and the Lumleian Lectures on the Etiology of Disease, by Dr. Pye Smith. I regret that the exceptional pressure put upon the time at my disposal for this Address, by the urgency of other topics, prevents me from entering into any critical analysis of these interesting and instructive lectures, each in its own way admirable ; and all of them in relation, either to the advance- ment of scientific knowledge, or to the improvement of practice, worthy of the best examples of our Foundation Discourses. The lectures of Dr. Burdon Sanderson constitute one of the most important contributions recently made to our knowledge of the nature and conditions of disease ; they carry us into another, and as yet, only partially explored world ; they intro- duce us to new forms of thought and language; they reveal to us relations of diseased states, and of these to the phenomena of disease hitherto unknown ; and they have opened before us prospects of preventing, or of controlling,