An address delivered at the Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery, at the third anniversary meeting August 29, 1838 / by Vaughan Thomas.
- Vaughan Thomas
- Date:
- [1838]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An address delivered at the Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery, at the third anniversary meeting August 29, 1838 / by Vaughan Thomas. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![6 duties, which I have been called upon to discharge, are as arduous, as they are honourable. The virtues, and talents of those vi^ho have addressed you on former anniversaries, would alone be sufficient to prove the truth of my observation. For when I call to mind the exhortations of that* able divine, and pious philosopher, whose eloquent, and affectionate address, you lately rewarded with your warmest thanks, I cannot but feel sensible of the disadvan- tages under which I labour upon this occasion. I find the like causes of apprehension in the luminous discourse of the elegant scholar and learned physician (now no more) who preceded him the year before.t I find them in the addresses of your A'enerable President,! and in his able and judicious labours to promote the welfare of the Royal School. I find them even in those tributes of affectionate respect, which were recently paid to his personal, and pro- fessional worth, by]| trustees, governors, professors, and pupils, upon his attainment of his 80th year.. If * The Rev. James Thomas Law, chancellor of the Diocese of Lichfield, addressed the anniversary meeting, 1835. f John Johnstone, Esq., M. D., fellow of tlie Royal Society, and of the Royal College of Physicians, addressed the anniversary meeting, 1834. J Edward Johnstone, Esq., M. D.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21472907_0004.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
