The Hunterian Oration, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons ... February 14, 1817 / [William Norris].

  • Norris, William, -1827.
Date:
1817
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Credit: The Hunterian Oration, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons ... February 14, 1817 / [William Norris]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nions were the price. The very eloquent and glowing manner in which this was illus- trated last year, from this Chair, in an extem- pore Oration, by reference to Grecian history, renders it unnecessary at present to add any thing in praise of the Art itself; and there- fore, in the short space which is allowed for this commemorative Tribute, the time will be best employed in taking a cursory notice of a few of its principal professors and ornaments. Authentic history does not inform us of any great medical or chirurgical character before the time of Hippocrates ; but legen- dary accounts are not wanting which trace his pedigree, and his gradually acquired knowledge, through the family of the Ascle- piades, up to ^Esculapius. This circum-