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

Date:: 1833

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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$land, the place of his nativity; the interest made by those who had remained comparatively idle, at home, outweighed the influence of all his activity, and acquirements abroad; lea\-ing him an unsuccessful candidate^ not only for the office of physician to an hospital, but also for a professor- ship. The memorial of this unmerited neglect, was how- ever, fortunately soon set aside, by his nomination to a PrOi fessorship in the University of Gottingen, by His Majesty George the Second. An appointment, the duties of which he continued to discharge, with honor to himself, and ad- vantage to others, for a period of seventeen years. Baron Haller, made Physiology his most essential study. Well aware of the necessity for obtaining a perfect knowledge of Anatomy, both human and comparative; he perceived that any reasoning upon function, incompatible with struc- ture, must be fallacious. Independent of many other works, of less note, Haller published the Academick Lectm-es of Boerhaave, enriched by his own copious, and comprehensive selection of notes, in which may be traced the vast extent of his reading, and the endless diversity of his experimental enquiries; ex- hibiting in miniature, the outlines of his latest and most extensive work, the Elementa Physiologise. We may now. Gentlemen, turn our attention to the more immediate object of this Meeting, by again reverting to the name of Mr. Hunter ; a name that appears to me to as- sociate with it the idea of nearly all that is perfect iu the$