The Hunterian oration delivered in the theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, on the fourteenth of February, 1833 / by John Howship.

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1833
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Credit: The Hunterian oration delivered in the theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, on the fourteenth of February, 1833 / by John Howship. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    shall cordially join in the benevolent desire expressed by an individual, no less distinguished by his celebrity as an artist, than by the high, and honorable charge of presiding over the arts ;*—that as the Royal Academy of Painting has its Pro- fessor of Anatomy, we may one day see the Royal College of Surgeons, have also, its Professor of Design. Gentlemen, so long as the cultivation of Anatomy, lan- guishes, that of Surgery will scarcely be advanced. It is when we see men of superior, and well constituted minds, zealously apply themselves to the improvement of their pro- fession, by the diligent study of nature, as displayed in the living movements of the animal machine; it is then, that we may anticipate the best results, the greatest discoveries. Such a man, was the illustrious Dr. William Harvey; whose keen discernment first determined the exact oiSice of the heart, and demonstrated the circulation of the blood. A gentleman, whose private manners, no less than his public conduct, bore testimony that a serious mind is indeed the native soil of every virtue. Dr. Harvey's disposition was essentially reflective, and thoughtful. That his researches into the most recondite paths of physiology were profound and gnccessful, is demonstrated by his discovery of the circulation, no less than by his elaborate and invaluable treatise on gene- ration. And the clearest evidence that his intellectual en- dowments were not only of the first, but the best quality. ♦ SirM. A. Shec, P.R.A.