The Hunterian oration, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons in London / [Honoratus Leigh Thomas].
- Thomas, Honoratus Leigh.
- Date:
- 1827
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The Hunterian oration, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons in London / [Honoratus Leigh Thomas]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[22] the Council was not unanimous with regard to its impor- tance, certain it is that the paper, after being read, was laid aside until the year 1795, when a Dissertation on the same subject, was presented by that able Physiologist Dr. Haigliton. It was now that the attention of the President and Council, was directed by his friend Sir Everard Home to the reconsideration of Mr. Cruikshank’s paper; when he had the satisfaction of seeing his communication rescued from oblivion, and after an interval of 19 years the priority of his claims unequivocally acknowledged. Soon after this, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1797 he presented a paper on Impregnation, which he illustrated by a regular series of experiments, and observations on the progress of gestation in the Fallopian tubes and uterus of the Rabbit. By an uncommon coin- cidence he was again followed by Dr. Haigliton, and their conclusions on this intricate and mysterious subject, were nearly similar. Dr. Haighton pursued the same views, and arrived at nearly the same conclusions. In 1795, he published a Tract on the Insensible Perspi- ration of the Human Body. The object of this work was to give a more correct and extended view of the Anatomy of the Skin ; and also, what may be considered of more real importance, to prove, by direct experiment, the affinity which subsists between it and the functions of Respiration, and the great influence it possesses in the balance and pre- servation of health, as regards the processes of digestion and secretion. All these objects were to a certain degree attained, but from the imperfect state of the knowledge of Chemistry at that time, his deductions could not be so](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22005286_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
