An Harveian oration [1819] and other remains of John Johnstone.

  • John Johnstone
Date:
1837
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An Harveian oration [1819] and other remains of John Johnstone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    selves so conspicuously, that it is our pride to be able to point out gentlemen educated here who have been marked with praise and distinction, not only by the public examiners in London, but at this hour we can boast of practitioners, settled in several counties around us, who are diffusing the benefits of their good education, and are already receiving their due honours and rewards from the public confidence. I might here enter on a detail of the instruction imparted by this School, and the means of affording it; but you yourselves will estimate it from one fact. Since the anatomical bill came into opera- tion, forty-three bodies have been permitted to be anatomically inspected, by the wisdom and just feelings of the overseers ; and thus the most minute instruction has been imparted to the students. Judge of your own security, and of the security of the public, from such opportunities; and I am sure it must be a high gratification to those Noble and Honourable Members of the Legislature here pre- sent, to know that their views in enacting that bill have entirely answered, so far as our own experience goes, and that the prejudices against dissection have been mainly extinguished. It was for this purpose that we threw open our Museum to the public gaze, and let me add the public admiration, during the past month; and I am delighted to affirm, that not one instance of disregard to pro-