The Hunterian oration : delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons on Saturday, February 14, 1818 ; and published at their request / by Sir David Dundas.

  • Dundas, David, Sir, 1735?-1820.
Date:
1818
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Credit: The Hunterian oration : delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons on Saturday, February 14, 1818 ; and published at their request / by Sir David Dundas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HUNTERIAN ORATION UNACCUSTOMED, Gentlemen, as I am, to address a public assembly, when I recol- lect the very able manner in which the subject of this day has been treated by those who have preceded me; when I look round me and see so numerous, and so very respectable an attendance, I own I present myself before you with much diffidence. But to record the actions of the illustrious dead, to commemorate the benefactors of mankind, to trace the progress of science, to B