Oratio inauguralis : quam in academia Harvardiana, Cantabrigiae Novanglorum, nonis Octobribus, A.D. MDCCLXXXIII / habuit Benjamin Waterhouse.

  • Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846.
Date:
1829
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Oratio inauguralis : quam in academia Harvardiana, Cantabrigiae Novanglorum, nonis Octobribus, A.D. MDCCLXXXIII / habuit Benjamin Waterhouse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

    11/24
    ADVERTISEMENT. This inaugural oration, delivered in 1783, may be valua- ble on one account; for as much as it fixes the era of an historicalfact not to befound on the records ofthe Universi- ty. That the origin of the second school of medicine in JLmerica (that of Pennsylvania having preceded it by about thirty years) should have been publicly celebrated before the highest civil authorities in the Commonwealth,—clerical and literary bodies—with a festive entertainment, and by illuminations of all the college buildings, and yet no record made of the installation, must surprise all those unacquaint- ed with the remissness of times past. As the department of the theory and practice of physic consociates.and unites the entire science ofmedicine, the first Professor of it was led to speak of its preliminary branches,—Anatomy, Chemistry, Botany, Materia Medica, and JYatural Philosophy,—and to appeal most eamestly to the powers and virtues of the Commonwealth, to supply a desideratum, benevolently called for by suffering humanity, —Imean, the study and restoration of the mind diseas- ed.* » JVow [1829], in a great measure, suppKed by a noble Asylum for the Insane.