The Hunterian Oration, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons on the 14th of February, 1834 / [Sir William Lawrence].

  • Lawrence, William, Sir, 1783-1867.
Date:
1834
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Credit: The Hunterian Oration, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons on the 14th of February, 1834 / [Sir William Lawrence]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    8. Physiological Series of Comparative Ana- tomy, Vol. I.— Organs of Motion and Digestion. Th ese form an aggregate of 1,015 pages in quarto. The catalogue of the remaining parts of the col¬ lection is in active progress : they are, the Vertebral Portion of the exterior Natural History, Fossils, Calculi, and the rest of the Physiological Series. The greatest care has naturally been bestowed on the physiological series, of which the catalogue is not only more descriptive and elaborate, being illustrated by extracts from the Hunterian manu¬ scripts and from the printed works of Mr. Hunter and others, but also embellished by engravings from some of the beautiful original drawings be¬ longing to the collection. This series, placed in its present order by Mr. Hunter himself, embraces all structures and organs, and is arranged, in each subdivision, in an ascending scale from the most simple to the most complicated. It is an epitome of general ana¬ tomy and physiology. It contains the philosophy of life ; and by disclosing the grounds on which all the principal divisions of natural history must be founded, it affords the basis of systematic zoology. The originality and force of Mr. Hunter’s mind are fully displayed in this part of the collection. We here see how far he outstripped his co¬ temporaries, and we learn from unequivocal testi-