Address of the Honourable Dr. Rolph : delivered before the faculty and students of medicine, of the University of Victoria College, Toronto, 1854-5.

  • Rolph, John, 1793-1870.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Address of the Honourable Dr. Rolph : delivered before the faculty and students of medicine, of the University of Victoria College, Toronto, 1854-5. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To THE HONORABLE JOHN ROLPH, M. R. C. S. E., Professor of Surgery SfC. Sir, At a very numerously attended meeting of the Medical Students of the University of Victoria College, held this day, we were deputed to present to you their request, that you will favor them with the manuscript of your Intro- ductory Lecture, delivered at the commencement of the present Session, in order that it may be published. Without attempting to eulogize, we, on behalf of the class may be allowed to say, we desire the publication of your lecture, on account of its intrinsic excellence. We were at the time of its delivery impressed with its polished elegance, its philosophic clearness, and the multitude of important facts which it presented, facts which belong not to the profession exclusively, and which cannot be too extensively known, or too deeply pondered. But, as Students, we especially desire its publication in order that we may preserve it as a memento of yourself personally and of the course of Lectures we are now attending. We feel assured that the numerous members of the profession, who have received their education at the Toronto School of Medicine, and are now practising with success the healing art (several of whom have already attained an eminence of which they and yourself, and colleagues may well feel proud), will hail with pleasure the Introductory Address of the Session of 185-i- 1855; and preserve it as a remembrancer of those studies made pleasant and successful by your valuable aid. We avail ourselves of this opportunity of expressing our respect for those intellectual faculties, and our admiration of those high attainments which have justly placed you in the first rank of your profession; and our appreciation of