An address delivered at the Conversazione held at the London Hospital, October 2nd, 1882 / by Jonathan Hutchinson.

  • Hutchinson, Jonathan, Sir, 1828-1913.
Date:
1882
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Credit: An address delivered at the Conversazione held at the London Hospital, October 2nd, 1882 / by Jonathan Hutchinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    AN ADDEE Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,— I have been asked to say a few words this evening, and the choice of topic has been left to me. In some respects I should have much preferred that it had been given me, and that Mr. Buxton, Dr. Clark, or some one of the many friends whom I see around me, had chosen my subject, and thus diminished a somewhat oppressive sense of responsi- bility. There is one topic which comes to the mind almost naturally when teachers and students meet again after a holiday, and that is, to ask how the vacation has been spent. I do not, however, propose, gentlemen, in any inquisitorial manner to ask what holiday tasks have been performed or how far the good intentions of July find themselves fulfilled in October, whether or not you have really read the books which you had determined to read. If for no other reason I am deterred from venturing in this direction by the character of my audience, for we have the pleasure of the company of many who are not students of medicine. 1 propose, therefore, on this account, to discard professional topics, and making my own guesses as to the literary pursuits o the past two months/shall try if I can find in connection with them the material for half an hour's comments.