Medical improvement: an address read to the Medical Society ... / [John Aitken].

  • Aitken, John, -1790
Date:
1777
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Credit: Medical improvement: an address read to the Medical Society ... / [John Aitken]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    { 1° ) ed to a diftinguifhed, a fortunate Mon~- ro« To his memory confenting nations pay that juft tribute of applaufe, which his country in general, but this City and its Univerfity in particular, ought to perpetuate by a ftatue. By a worthy select Band of the numerous ftudents, who flocked from all quarters, allured by the rifmg fame of the Edinburgh Univerfity ; this Medical Society in 1737? was happily inftitu- ted. Of its various progrefs and prefent flou-rifhing independent ftate, I prefume you to be well informed ; and there¬ fore avoid attempting any particular hif- / < 4 torical narration of thefe circumftances at The Building # in which we are now af- # The Medical Hall,-—A handfome Edi¬ fice of various elegant appartments with a Cupola and Spire, ornamented with the Tnfgnia of i£fc;u» ]aphis, eredted chiefly by the liberal contributions, of the Members,