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respective partizans, and of the influence exercised through 

 them on physic. In London the physiology of John Hunter 

 influenced surgery, and has made a still greater and more 

 permanent impression on medicine. At the risk of becoming 

 obnoxious to the charge of nationality, I cannot but observe 

 here that the physiological bias of the second Monro, the pecu- 

 liar character of the views of Whytt, Cullen, and Brown, and 

 the physiological and pathological principles of John Hunter, 

 all fellow-countrymen, in accordance with that tendency to 

 abstract speculation which characterised a large section of the 

 Scotch philosophers of the period, was destined to exercise 

 on Continental medicine as great an influence as the Scotch 

 school of philosophy and metaphysics, which took its rise 

 early in this period, has exerted on those abroad. 



And here, gentlemen, I must recall your attention to a 

 name which I have already mentioned more than once, and 

 which occupies so conspicuous a place in the anatomical 

 records of this period. Under his father, the second Monro 

 became an accurate descriptive anatomist. Attached at an 

 early age to the practice of his profession, which he continued 

 to prosecute for the greater part of his life, he proceeded to 

 Berlin, where, under the first Meckel, he pursued his favourite 

 subject It was under Meckel that he prepared his essay, 

 De Venis Lymphaticis Volvulosis. Already imbued by his 

 father with a love of making anatomical preparations, he pre- 

 pared at Berlin quicksilver injections of the tubes and lym- 

 phatics of the testes and spermatic duct, which still exist in 

 our museum. He ever afterwards retained his early predilec- 

 tion for the study of the lymphatics, acquired great dexterity 

 in injecting these vessels, and entered with much keenness 

 into a controversy with the Hunters regarding the priority of 

 1 heir presumed discovery of the functions of these vessels, and 

 with Eewson regarding the lymphatics of birds and fishes. 



A few years afteT the commencement of the present 



