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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    be related illustrative of the habitual generosity, and libera- lity of his feelings; no less than the lofty and original cast of his genius, labouring to the last, more fully to unfold, the multiplied and admirable contrivances of Omniscient wisdom, in adapting so many diversities of structure to the accom- plishment of one and the same purpose; as may frequently be traced in com'sing the wide field of animated nature- We may, however, venture to devote a few moments to the purpose of taking a transient glance at the interior of the Hunterian Museum; for although many gentlemen now pre- sent, have, I am aware, already contemplated, in detail, its various contents, it seems to me not unsuitable to the present occasion to state the leading principle of its arrangement, as demonstrative of the extent of the scheme, and purpose, of its founder. In this collection (says one of Mr. Hunter's biographers*) we find an attempt to expose to view the gradations of nature, from the simplest state in which life exists, up to the most perfect, and most complex animal, man. The First Class of preparations, exhibits the sap of vege- tables, and the blood of animals; fluids from which all the different parts of the vegetable and animal creation are formed, supported, and increased. The moving powers of animals, muscle, elastic ligament; the bones and joints, con- clude this series. * Sir Evcrard I Ionic.