Lectures on the structure and physiology of the parts composing the skeleton, and on the diseases of the bones and joints of the human body : preceded by some observations on the influence of the brain and nerves, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons of London, in the summer of the year 1820 / by James Wilson.

  • Wilson, James.
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1820
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    time given for the consideration of merit must add dignity to the ultimate award. This is strongly exemplified in the British Go- vernment's concurrence with this College in forming such estimation of the labours and talents of John Hunter, as to raise a monument honourable to the memory of the individual, and useful not only to our country, but to the world. The government having purchased his anatomical preparations, pre- sented them to our College, and liberally aided us in erecting a building fit for their reception, where they have been arranged and augmented by .dona- tions and other means, so as now to form a grand national museum, containing the most valuable ma- terials, when properly studied, for the extension of the knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and consequently for the improvement of medicine and surgery. In furtherance of these views the Governors of the College have ordered thirty lectures to be an- nually delivered, and our Board of Curators, to render these more generally useful, have this year shortened the period of their duration by directing that three lectures should be delivered in each week, instead of two as formerly, and also that the lectures on human anatomy and surgery, and those on comparative anatomy should be delivered on the alternate weeks. The department allotted to me is human ana- tomy and surgery.