LECTURE. 



The entrance upon a new course of Lectures is 

 always a period of interest to instructors and pupils. 

 As the birth of a child to a parent, so is the advent of 

 a new class to a teacher. As the hght of the untried 

 world to the infant, so is the dawning of the light rest- 

 ing over the unexplored realms of science to the stu- 

 dent. In the name of the Faculty I welcome you, 

 Gentlemen of the Medical Class, new-born babes of 

 science, or lustier nurslings, to this morning of your 

 medical life, and to the arms and the bosom of this 

 ancient University. Fourteen years ago I stood in 

 this place for the first time to address those who occu- 

 pied these benches. As I recall these past seasons of 

 our joint labors, I feel that they have been on the 

 whole prosperous, and not undeserving of their pros- 

 perity. For it has been my privilege to be associated 

 with a body of true and faithful workers ; I cannot 

 praise them freely to their faces, or I should be proud 

 to discourse of the harmonious dihgence and the noble 

 spirit in which they have toiled together, not merely 



