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^^ in children of two years of age, being fully pcr- 

 "suaded Mr. Berlin had never met with them of 

 "such a considerable size, nor of such peculiar 

 ^^ structure." 



By the class of medical students Wistar was uni- 

 versally loved and respected. It has been said, that 

 during the period of his lectures, they increased in 

 number from one to five hundred. To ascribe this 

 prodigious increase to him alone, would be doing 

 injustice to the dead. Let me not adorn his recent 

 grave with laurels torn from the tombs of others. 

 But without violating that modesty which he loved, 

 I may be permitted to say, that no individual con- 

 tributed more than he, to raise the school to its pre- 

 sent eminence. The institution, it must not be dis- 

 sembled, has received a rude shock in the loss of 

 this invaluable Professor. And this reflection is the 

 more serious, when we take a short retrospect. A 

 few years have robbed us of Shippen, and Wood- 

 house, and Rush, and Barton, and Kuhn. And now 

 Wistar is gone, the last of that old school, by whose 

 labours the fabrick has been reared so high. But I 

 do not dispair. Our loss, although great, is not ir- 

 reparable. Not that a Professor is to be expected, 

 who can at once fill the vacant chair with all the 

 splendour of his predecessor — but by treading in his 



