Introductory address delivered at the Charing Cross Hospital Medical College : on the opening of the session, 1858-59 / By Richard Barwell.

  • Barwell, Richard, 1827-1916.
Date:
[1858]
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Credit: Introductory address delivered at the Charing Cross Hospital Medical College : on the opening of the session, 1858-59 / By Richard Barwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    INTRODUCTORY LECTURE. Gentlemen, A Lecture introducing a new Medical Session must bring back to many here present multiform re- miniscences of past labours, past struggles, and of en- sured success. Many will listen to such a discourse with experienced criticism sharpened by twenty or thirty such lectures still sounding in their ears, and their mind will be carried back to time past, when years ago they heard their first introductory lecture from the lips per- haps of an Astley Cooper, a Sir Charles Bell, or a Sir B. Brodie. Reminiscences of teachers long dead, and of the past, may be conjured up,—reminiscences of work done with them and for them,—recollections of the doubts and difficulties of early professional life, and of their final conquest. Others of my hearers will listen with the fresh earnest- ness of youth: it will be to them not merely their first but their only real introductory lecture, the only one that may be said to place their feet upon the beginning of the path along which they have chosen to direct their life. These will expect some account of the work to be done, some description of the machinery whereby they, the raw a 2