460 MODERN DEVELOPMENTS OF HARVEY's WORK. 



tenii)oiaiies. For the very estimation in which his professional skill 

 was held led to his whole time being taken up in giving advice and 

 prevented him from having the leisure to work out or record the results 

 of the patliological and clinical observations which both his youtlifiil 

 publications and his later career showed him to be specially iitted to 

 make. I might say very much more about him, but it has already been 

 said much better than I could possibly do it by yourself, Mr. President, 

 ill your annual address and in the eloquent and heart stirring words 

 which you addressed to the college on the occasion of your taking the 

 presidential chair rendered vacant by tlie death of Sir Andrew Clark. 



IJnt while we were saddened to-day by the death of our late presi- 

 dent we lio[)e to be gladdened by the presence among us again of one 

 whom we all reverence not only as a former president of this college, 

 but as one of the greatest leaders of clinical medicine in this century, 

 Sir William Jenner. Like Harvey, Sir William Jenner is honored by 

 his college, by his country, by his sovereign, and by the world at 

 large. In times of trial and danger the lives of the royal children 

 were committed to the keeping of Harvey by his king, and to day the 

 care not only of her own life but of that of her nearest and dearest is 

 committed to Sir W^illiam Jenner by his sovereign in the full and well- 

 grounded assurance that in no other hands could they be more safe. 

 The great clinician. Graves, wished to have as his epitaph, "He fed 

 fevers;" but Jenner has advanced much beyond Graves, and by show- 

 ing us how to feed the different kinds of fevers has saved thousands 

 of valuable lives. To-day this college is acknowledging his right to 

 rank with Sydenham, Heberden, Bright, and Garrod by bestowing 

 upon him the Moxoii medal for clinical research. In numbering Sir 

 W^illiam among its medalists the college honors itself as well as him, 

 and in acknowledging the great services he has rendered, it is, on this 

 occasion, acting as the mouthpiece of the medical profession not only 

 in this country, but in the world at large. 



It was with tluMvish to keep green the memory of the benefactors of 

 the college that this oration was instituted by Harvey, and not at all with 

 the intention that it should be devoted to his own praise. Hut Harvey 

 stands out so high above all others that it is only natural that in the 

 numerous orations which have been yearly given before the College of 

 Physicians, the subject-matter should have been to a great extent con- 

 lined to a consideration of Harvey and his works. On looking over 

 many of these orations I find that everything I could say about Har- 

 \ey — his person, his circumstances, his character, and his works — has 

 already been said so fully and eloquently that I could not add to it any- 

 thing further, nor could I hope to express it even so well. I purpose, 

 therefore, to consider to-day some of the modern developments of Har- 

 vey's work, more especially in relation to the treatment of diseases of 

 the heart and circulaticm. There is, I think, a certain advantage in 

 this also, inasmuch as one is apt by considering Harvey's work only as 



