The Hunterian oration : delivered in the presence of their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on the centenary of Hunter's death, February 14th, 1893 / by Thomas Bryant.

  • Thomas Bryant
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1893
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Credit: The Hunterian oration : delivered in the presence of their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on the centenary of Hunter's death, February 14th, 1893 / by Thomas Bryant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ardour and success with which he cultivated natural knowledge and philosophy, and rendered them sub- servient to his profession, had deservedly raised him to the first name. The monument of industry and genius which he has left behind will best speak his praise and call for the gratitude of this and future ages. These two announcements intimated to the world the beginning and ending of the life of a man who has become one of the most brilHant of the fixed stars of our national genius; and he became so, not so much by his contributions to the stock of human knowledge, which in themselves were colossal, as by his opening up a line of investigation which was entirely original, and by his marking out in the clearest way the paths which all future investiga- tors must tread, who desire to decipher the problems of life, disease, and death. During this century Great men have been among us, hands that penned, and tongues that uttered wisdom, but to-day we celebrate the death of the greatest; and I would that I had the wisdom of a Bacon and the eloquence of a Burke to do justice to his memory. As a humble disciple, however, of John Hunter, and in the presence of his followers, many of whom have, in adding lustre to his reputation acquired much for their own, I propose to display before you, some of the leading conclusions of his life; and by trying to understand his methods and modes of
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