LECTURE I. 



were accustomed in general to have upon 

 the pupils of Sir William Blizard. 



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That which most dignifies man, is the 

 cultivation of those intellectual faculties 

 which distinguish him from the brute 

 creation. We should indeed seek truth ; 

 feel its importance ; and act as the dic- 

 tates of reason direct. By exercising the 

 powers of our minds in the attainment 

 of medical knowledge, we learn and may 

 improve a science of the greatest public 

 utility. We have need of enthusiasm, 

 or of some strong incentive, to induce 

 us to spend our nights in study, and our 

 days in the disgusting and health-destroy- 

 ing avocations of the dissecting-room ; or 

 in that careful and distressing observation 

 of human diseases and infirmities, which 

 alone can enable us to understand, alle- 

 viate, or remove them : for upon no 

 other terms can we be considered as real 

 students of our profession. We have need 

 of some powerful inducement, exclusively 

 of the expectation of fame or emolument : 



