Cursory observations upon the 'Lectures on physiology, zoology, and the natural history of man, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons / by W. Lawrence ; 'in a series of letters addressed to that gentleman; with a concluding letter to his pupils, by one of the people called Christians'].

  • Grinfield, Edward William, 1785-1864.
Date:
1819
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Credit: Cursory observations upon the 'Lectures on physiology, zoology, and the natural history of man, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons / by W. Lawrence ; 'in a series of letters addressed to that gentleman; with a concluding letter to his pupils, by one of the people called Christians']. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LETTER L Sir, Xhe ability and information which you have displayed in your Lectures at the Royal College of Surgeons, have deservedly placed you amongst the brightest living ornaments of your profession. To a consummate knowledge of those sciences which more immediately relate to anatomical and physiological inquiries, you have joined a taste for general literature, and shewn a considerable acquaintance with the history and progress of Philosophy. The opinions of a man thus gifted by nature and polished by education, are calculated not only to command the attention of the Public, but, in some degree, to influence its judgment. When I consider, indeed, the nature of that audience to which these lectures were addressed, consisting chiefly of young men just entering on life, many of whom are unfixed in their prin- ciples, and of which but a very small part can be supposed to have formed calm and deliberate