Annual oration, delivered March 8th, 1790, before the Medical Society ... / by George Wallis.

  • George Wallis
Date:
1790
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Credit: Annual oration, delivered March 8th, 1790, before the Medical Society ... / by George Wallis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    welfare of mankind, he is bound by the ftrongeffi ties, natural and focial, to exert his abilities, how¬ ever weak, when called to promote any laudable- purpofe. Conne&ed therefore as I am with the members, of this medical inflitution— with you, who actuated by philanthropy, make fcience the pleafurable labour of your lives — and that part of fcience your parti¬ cular ftudy, the moft noble which can engage the. purfuit of man — framed by Divine Wifdom for the relief and prefervation of the human fpecies_ preventing, mitigating, and fubduing many of their corporal calamities — your wifhes I conlidered as a. mandate — and, as you have thought proper to ele£t me to this office of honor — an office, which would have been far better fupplied by many of your affociates-It became me, therefore, to re¬ flect, what there was in my power to offer, which might in fome, though perhaps too fmall a degree, compenfate for your lofs of time and attention to the i
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