2 LECTURE I. 



reasons, which I have partly explained in 

 my first Lectures, to uphold it as a good 

 theory, till a more satisfactory one be dis- 

 covered. I have praised him, because his 

 perception of the healthy state of the vital 

 processes enabled him to discern and in- 

 vestigate the causes and effects of disorder 

 and disease in a manner and degree that 

 have produced a most important revolution 

 in medical science. I now mean to praise 

 him for the great labour of his life, his 

 Museum ; which I may call the principal 

 record of his deeds and opinions. 



Hitherto I have endeavoured to make 

 the Anatomical Lectures subservient to the 

 surgical subjects I had afterwards to discuss. 

 Finding myself rather at a loss for such 

 topics, particularly because this theatre is 

 unsuited to anatomical demonstrations, it 

 occurred to me, that it might be useful to re- 

 present to my present audience, what were 

 the peculiar improvements Mr. Hunter 

 made in Physiology, and also the degree 

 of perfection to which he brought that 

 science. 



