32 MEMOIR OF JOHN BARCLAY. 



especially of such praise as they are qualified to be- 

 stow. 



Leaving to more competent judges, and to poste- 

 rity^, to decide how much you have benefited the 

 medical world by your writings, they claim to them- 

 selves the honour of being able in some degree to 

 appreciate that various and accurate knowledge, 

 which brings the light of different sciences to the 

 elucidation of one ; that extensive learning which 

 conducts you to the origin of names and opinions, 

 through all the changes of language and systems ; 

 and that manly philosophy, which in an age not cer- 

 tainly distinguished for its piety, uniformly prompts 

 you to impress upon the youthful mind the final 

 cause of the phenomena which you disclose. 



Carrying with them into professional life, along 

 with the benefit which they cannot but derive from 

 your judicious and able tuition, a grateful sense of 

 what they owe to you, they join in ardent wishes 

 that you may long continue, by your name, your 

 writings, and public instructions, to support and 

 adorn the Medical School of Scotland ; and, in the 

 gratitude, the respectability, and usefulness of your 

 numerous pupils, enjoy that reward of your labours, 

 which is ever the most grateful to a generous mind. 



Signed in name and by authority of the Class, by 

 William Rae Wilson, 



President. 



Alex. Campbell, 

 Secretary. 

 Edinburgh, Fehy. Uth, 1811. 

 To 



Db. John Barclay, 



Argyle Square. 



