XLI. 

 THE HARVEIAN ORATION, 1873. 



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TO 



GEORGE BURROWS, M.D., F.R.S., D.C.L., 



PRESIDENT OF THE 

 EOTAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF ENGLAND, 



WHOSE OWN ATTAINMENTS, 



WHOSE SYMPATHY WITH THE INTELLECTUAL ACTIVITY 



AND PROGBESS OF OTHERS, 



WHOSE UNSWERVING DISCHARGE OF GREAT, AND WHOSE 



CONSCIENTIOUS FULFII^ENT OF DETAIL DUTIES, 



FURNISHED FOR MANY YEARS A VALUABLE EXAMPLE 



TO THE 



STUDENTS OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL, 



THIS HARVEIAN ORATION 



is gratefully dedicated 

 by one of his former pupils. 

 Oxford, 1873. 



Mr. President and Fellows of the College of Physicians : — 

 A man whose lot it is to live away from London may well feel 

 some diffidence in accepting an invitation to lecture before a 

 metropolitan audience; and, Sir, when you honoured me by re- 

 questing me to deliver this year's Harveian Oration, I felt and 



