England or in Germany; yet it is mortifying to 

 learn, * " that it is hardly to be expected these 

 " matters will receive any clear elucidation, 

 " while we continue so ignorant as at present of 

 " the functions executed by the different parts 

 " of the encephalon." 



Remember, Sir, that if these statements ap- 

 pear ridiculous, it is yourself who have con-, 

 trived to render a grave science the subject of 

 drollery. If you had adduced these facts mere- 

 ly as physiological data, they would still have 

 retained all their importance in relation to ana- 

 tomy and pathology ; but when you bring them 

 forward as illustrative of morals, or theology, or 

 metaphysics oh ! then we cannot command 

 the solemnity of our muscles, and in spite of the 

 dignity of a Royal Professor, we are obliged to 

 give vent to our emotions. 



Towards the conclusion of this chapter, you 

 offer some remarks on what you term f" an in- 

 * teresting part of the female structure." I 

 am sorry to observe that here, and in several 

 other parts of your Lectures, you indulge in cer- 

 tain licentious allusions, which are very foreign 

 to the modesty and sobriety of real science.; 

 You need not be informed, Sir, that there is a 

 certain technical phraseology belonging to these 

 subjects which has not the slightest tendency 

 to awaken any impure ideas. It is not usual, I 

 believe, in medical books, to speak of J" the rites 



* P. 194. f P. 201. | P. 228. 



