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with considerable advantage both to the student and to his 

 fature patients ? I may, probably, like Professor Tyndall, be 

 blamed for meddling with such things ; but as a large portion 

 of my life was spent in the studying and practising of 

 medicine and surgery, and the rest in studying natural 

 philosophy and mathematical science, the right to speak as I 

 have may be conceded to me. I know most of the members 

 of this Society hold like views. I know many of our most 

 eminent medical men do so also, and I have heard more than 

 one veteran member of the faculty bitterly regret that both 

 mathematical and physical science had not formed a larger 

 part of medical education in their day. Let us hope, for the 

 sak6 of medical science, that this state of things will soon be 

 mended. 



