Experimental physiology, its benefits to mankind : with an address on unveiling the statue of William Harvey at Folkestone, 6th August 1881.

  • Owen, Richard, 1804-1892.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Experimental physiology, its benefits to mankind : with an address on unveiling the statue of William Harvey at Folkestone, 6th August 1881. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    lO vicinity, and formally presented to the Mayor and Corporation, as the elected representa tives of the ancient borough. The outdoor scene, with a keen sea- breeze blowing, led me to condense my matter and to exclude some topics which are now restored to the * Address/ It then proceeded :— 2. Address.—In the present phase of cer- tain public manifestations of feeling toward labours resulting in, and essential to, the dis- covery of the circulation of the blood, it is of importance to find, as the list of donations to this Memorial testifies, that, besides the names of our own eminent practitioners of medicine and surgery, teachers and advancers of the science of physiology, and those of European renown, represented by a Pasteur and a Virchow, who personally have taken part in the ' International Medical Congress,' and many of whom I now see around me,—various learned and scientific bodies and intellectual individuals, of all classes, have combined and concurred in testifying that the methods and results of Harvey's discovery have not only