2 THE IIAEVEIAN OIUTION, 1894. 



tinguished Fellows of this College, tlie greatness of Clark is to 

 be estimated not by the published works which he has left be- 

 hind, but by the influence he exerted on his contemporaries. 

 For the very estimation in which his professional skill was held 

 led to his whole time being taken up in giving advice, and pre- 

 vented him from having the leisure to work out or record the 

 results of the pathological and clinical observations which both 

 his useful publications and his later career showed him to be 

 specially fitted to make. I might say very much more a1)out 

 him, but it has already been said much better than I could 

 possibly do it by yourself, Mr. President, in your annual ad- 

 dress, and in the eloquent and heart-stirring words which you 

 addressed to the College on the occasion of your taking tho 

 presidential chair rendered vacant by the death of Sir Andrew 

 Clark. 



But while we are saddened by the death of our late Presi- 

 dent, we hope to be gladdened by the presence amongst us 

 again of one whom we all reverence not only as a former Presi- 

 dent 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 honoured by his College, by his country, 

 by his Sovereign, and by the world at large. In time of trial 

 and danger the lives of the Eoyal 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 William 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 showing us how to feed the different kinds 

 of fevers, has saved thousands of valuable lives. To-day this 

 College is acknowdedging his right to rank with Sydenham, 

 Heberden, Bright and Garrod, by bestowing upon him the 

 Moxon medal for clinical research. In numbering Sir William 

 amongst its medallists, the College honours 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 pro- 

 fession, not only in this country but in the world at large. 



