The Hunterian oration : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on the 14th of February, 1905 / by John Tweedy.
- Tweedy, John
- Date:
- 1905
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Credit: The Hunterian oration : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on the 14th of February, 1905 / by John Tweedy. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![r HUNTEKIAN ORATION. EEFERENCES AND NOTES. 1 W. Windelband, A History of PhUosophy. Eng. trans, by J. H. Tufts. New York, 1893, p. 11. 2 Aristotle, Analytica Posteriora, lib. I. c. viii. sec. 1. 3 Erank Buckland, Curiosities of Natural Eistory. Fourth Series. 4 Mter the Battle of Arginusae. See E. Curtius, The History of Greece, Eng. trans, by A. W. Ward, vol. iii. pp. 502-514; G-. Grote, A History of Greece (in 12 vols.), vol. vii. pp. 414-446 ] C. Thirwall, The History of Greece, vol. iv. pp. 106-122. Eor an interesting and learned account of the ancient Greek and Eoman ideas of Sepulture, see Paul de Saint-Victor, Les Deux Masques, Paris, 1882, vol. ii. chaps, xii-xiii. 5 Qur'dn, Sura, xlvii.: How will it be when the angels take their Souls, smiting their faces and their backs.—Palmee's translation, pt. ii. p. 232. Munkir and Nakir are the two angels who preside at ' the examination of the tomb.' Thej visit a man in his grave directly after he has been buried, and examine him concerning his faith. If he acknowledges that there is but one God, and that Mohammed is his prophet, they suffer him to rest in peace, otherwise they beat him with iron maces .... tbey then press the earth down on the corpse, and leave it to be torn by dragons and serpents till the day of resurrection.—The Qw-'dn, trans, by E. H. Palmer. Part I. Introd. p. Ixix. See also T. P. Hughes, Notes on Muhammadism, 3rd ed. London, 1894, p. 80. 0 Albucasis, De Chiriirgia, ed. J. Channing, Arabice et Latine. Oxon, MDCCLxxviii. tom. i. pp. 2-5; L, Leclerc, La Chirunjie d'Ahulcasis, Erench trans., Paris, 1861, p. 6.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21466257_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
