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physiology, itself a mature science, constantly ministering to 
the improvement and extension of our therapeutical resources. 
There is the noble science of chemistry, in great part as we 
may ever claim with pride, an off-shoot from the profession 
of medicine, which has contributed liberally from almost 
every element of which our planet is composed, and from 
new combinations of matter, which it has itself invented, to 
strengthen the armamentarium medicum. It has further 
become of immense service in anatomy, physiology, patho- 
logy, diagnosis, and toxicology. Look at the varied aspects 
of the great science of anatomy, as it is now studied and 
taught, each aspect as distinct as the face of a crystal, and 
each by itself a splendid acquisition in knowledge. Look at 
physiology, which deals with the functions of the human 
economy, and which has been enriched by the investigations 
and discoveries of the greatest minds that have adorned our 
profession ; this department, especially, is constantly re- 
ceiving additions from labourers in all countries where scien- 
tific medicine is cultivated, so that a great and intelligible 
meaning will ultimately be attached to every part of the 
human frame. Look at surgical anatomy, in which the 
organisation and relation of the different parts of the body 
are studied with reference to surgical diseases and operations, 
and which is the foundation of operative surgery. Look at 
what may be called therapeutical anatomy, in which the 
different organs of the body are studied while under the 
influence of remedies. Look again at medical anatomy, in 
which the same organs are investigated with reference to the 
diagnosis and the symptoms of every form of disease. Look 
at pathological anatomy, in which is traced all the lesions, 
and all the transformations of tissues, produced by disease. 
Look at what we may term chemical anatomy, which deter- 
mines the quantitative and qualitative elements of which the 
body is composed, and the changes they undergo in the pro- 
cesses of daily life. Look at microscopical anatomy, which 
unfolds the invisible organisation of the structures which 
make up the human fabric, and from which we learn the 
relation of invisible parts to the visible whole. Lastly, look 
at comparative and transcendental anatomy, in which every 
part of creation, from the animalcule of to-day to the mas- 
tadon of former worlds, is used as a key for the interpretation 
of the rest, until at length we arrive at a comprehension of 
the ideas of the Creator, in making living creatures “ after 
their kind,” and, finally, “ man, in his own image,” and 
perhaps approached nearer to the Divine Author, than in 
any other branch of knowledge merely human. It was then, 
