Introductory address in the Faculty of Medicine at University College : London, October, 1889 / by Rickman John Godlee.

  • Rickman Godlee
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[1889]
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Credit: Introductory address in the Faculty of Medicine at University College : London, October, 1889 / by Rickman John Godlee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    been somewhat taken aback. I was at first tempted to call it a chapter of mediceval\\viXjOTj^ but the term mediaeval carries with it the idea of decadence, and the period to which I am now coming was one of great perfection of the manipulative part of our art; and not only so, but it boasted of enormous recent improvements. And if, in speaking of it I refer chiefly to what now seem to be its shortcomings, it is not that I wish to slur over its merits, but because they are so obvious and well known, and because, as all of you have seen or will see in that temple of wisdom on the Embankment, beneath the sign manual known trade of the Col- mark of the lege of Phy- purveyors of sicians, which a certain “O'. BI'OC . BPAXYC . H'. DE\ TE'XNH . MAKPH'.”* Somewhere about the year of grace 1868, I first had the privilege of listening to an introductory address from one of the top benches of this theatre ;—who delivered it, I cannot say—it made no more lasting impression upon my youthful mind than mine is likely to make upon yours. always sug- gests to me the well- wholesome and bitter tonic. * The beginning of the first aphorism of Hippocrates.
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