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INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS. 
I have the pleasure of seeing near me those who are quite 
equal to the task — although it is no slight one — of furnishing 
them. Do you, gentlemen, appeal to them. Urge them 
to give you wffiat you and the profession so much desire to 
have, and really want. It may be that they will respond to 
your appeal, and then you will have been influential in doing 
no little amount of good. 
As to the Clinique and dissecting room, I feel assured that 
I need not labour to convince you of the necessity there is 
for a constant attendance on both of those essential means of 
instruction. At the first named you will always be present, 
listening to and storing up in your memories the practical 
observations made from time to time by the professor^ in 
their visits to the patients in the infirmary. You will there 
learn the diagnostics of disease, watch its phases, and be- 
come familiar with the treatment ; each in his turn being 
called upon to act as dresser or clinical clerk. Here, too, 
your note-book will be required, for the more interesting and 
important cases should be recorded by you for reference 
hereafter ; since all the study of the closet, and the most 
perfect book-knowledge you may possess, will not become a 
substitute for the personal observance of cases. 
In the latter, the dissecting-room, you will be early and 
late, as here are to be dug up and laid the foundation-stones 
of your studies — anatomy being the basis of medical science. 
But you must not be satisfied with this, or the superstruc- 
ture will never be raised. 
I may be permitted, under this head, to introduce some 
advice given to students in the other branch of medicine — 
the human ; making it, by a little alteration in the words, 
apply to you. 
<c Before you can hope to obtain much real advantage 
from the observation of cases of disease, you must be ac- 
quainted not only with the anatomy of the different organs 
of the body in a state of health, but you must understand 
the manner in which these do their work, their relation and 
dependence upon each other, and as far as possible the ex- 
act nature and relative importance of the offices they seve- 
rally discharge. And before you can appreciate the effects of 
treatment in cases of disease, you must necessarily be fully 
acquainted with the action of remedies upon the healthy 
organism and with the general properties of the various 
drugs which are employed. Hence, the study of many sub- 
jects besides those which have a direct and obvious bearing 
upon the cure of disease has been found requisite, and ex- 
tended experience has shown that before a man can become 
