[Valedictory address of Dr. Duncan, in the University of Edinburgh, 29th of April 1825 at the conclusion of the fifty-fifth Winter Session].

  • Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828
Date:
1825
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Credit: [Valedictory address of Dr. Duncan, in the University of Edinburgh, 29th of April 1825 at the conclusion of the fifty-fifth Winter Session]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Several Students^ who hwve attended the Lectures on tlie Institutions of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh^ delivered by Dr Duncan senior, having- expressed a wish to be possessed of an accurate copy of his Valedictory Ad- dress, he has been induced to put it in print. The follow- ing is a correct account of what he said on the 29th of April 1825, at the conclusion of the Fifty-fifth Winter Session, during which he has lectured at Edinburgh, and after he had arrived at the Eighty first year of his age. Gentlemen, I HAVE now brought to a termination my Lectures on Pa- thological Physiology, the Philosophy of the Human Body, or, as it has commonly been styled, the Theory of Medicine; and with the remarks offered, I now conclude my academi- cal duties for this Winter Session. During this course I have deUvered more than a Hundred Lectures, without the intermption of even a single day, ap- pointed for academical duty. As a Lecturer on Medicine, at Edinburgh, and in the Eighty-first year of my age, a period at which few are permitted to arrive, notwithstanding the un- avoidable infirmities of old age, from which no one is entirely exempt, I have been able to bring my course to its proper ter» Store 32573 30114015964581 OF GLASDa^