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again, pursued his subject in a capital where success in busi- 

 ness, rank, or property, are surer passports than literary emin- 

 ence or scientific reputation. Harassed by a laborious practice, 

 which alone supplied the means of prosecuting his researches, 

 without the sympathy of the public, and with few professional 

 friends, he did all by his own efforts, and left a museum of 

 comparative anatomy superior to that of Cuvier, and a 

 surgical reputation greater than any before or since. 



During this period the progress in the Edinburgh Ana- 

 tomical School partook of the varied characters to which I 

 have alluded. My own immediate predecessor in this chair, 

 from his early acquaintance with Dr. Baillie and his school, 

 acquired the prevailing taste for general and morbid anatomy 

 which showed itself in his Morbid Anatomy of the Stomach 

 and Gullet, and of the Brain. The former, especially from 

 the learning and sound discrimination which it exhibits, has 

 become a standard work in the literature of our profession. 

 His intercourse with Mr. Allan Burns, and the influence of 

 the period, had early directed his attention to various depart- 

 ments of surgical anatomy, as evinced by his writings and 

 illustrations of the male pelvis, hernia, etc., and thus conduced 

 in no small degree to develope the bold and successful operative 

 surgery of the Edinburgh School. 



I cannot conclude what I have said regarding the Ana- 

 tomical School of this University, prior to the period we are 

 now entering upon, without alluding, more shortly than I 

 could have wished, to two names inseparably connected with 

 its former history, Mr. Innes and Mr. Fyfe. The former, well 

 known as the author of a work on the muscles, was educated 

 as an anatomist by the second Monro, and long assisted him 

 in the duties of the chair. Mr. Fyfe devoted himself to ana- 

 tomy, when advanced in life, and became, under the same 

 master, one of the most accomplished practical anatomists of 

 his day. He was not only a most assiduous and dexterous 



