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fortunate for us that the search after the one stirs up the 
mental faculties to the exercise of lofty and noble reflections 
of the other. A complete physiology would describe physical 
health in all its orbits and revolutions, and as a brilliant 
because a living fact. Therefore physiology, in proportion 
as it is attained, is the life of anatomy, and as such you will 
readily discern, from what I have said, that it also must 
constitute a most important branch of your studies in this 
institution. 
Then there is pathology, which embraces morbid anatomy, 
and also the physiology or doctrine of disease; and let me 
add, to complete the definition, the rational connection 
of the appearances after death with the symptoms which had 
existed during life. This is an important subject, and I 
earnestly impress upon you to seize all the occasions that 
present themselves to dissect for disease, and thus to trace the 
physical alterations that have been produced by inflammation 
and other morbid agencies upon the organization. You will 
not find it very difficult to add this interesting study and 
experience to the subjects which have already engaged our 
attention; for once in possession of some knowledge of 
anatomy and physiology, the morbid alterations, as they will 
be pointed out to you by your teachers, will easily strike 
your minds, will connect themselves with the cases in which 
these results have occurred, and with the symptoms of those 
cases; and thus you will have the best and most complete 
view that can be afforded of the proximate nature of disease. 
You will find, however, that we do not always treat diseases 
strictly according to pathological science, as treatment has its 
own field of experience; yet is pathology most valuable, as 
indicating the precise seats of maladies and their nature. It 
gives us specific, or, in other words, accurate knowledge, and 
such knowledge is available for practical skill. Besides which, 
as I had occasion before to remark concerning physiology, it 
imparts to the mind power over the whole subject of disease, 
and introduces it deeply and rightfully to the very sphere and 
element of our calling. 
We now come to the more directly practical part of our 
instruction, as you will observe it from day to day in the in¬ 
firmary of the College; and I need hardly tell you that it is 
your bounden duty to attend with the utmost diligence to our 
daily rounds and examinations among our patients. I would 
advise you to take minutes of each case, and to form a record 
of any remarks that may be made by the professors during 
its progress, and also to note down any impressions which 
from time to time may suggest themselves to your own minds. 
