Valedictory address delivered to the members of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, at the last ordinary meeting of session 1852-53, April 15, 1853 / by William Murray Dobie.

  • Dobie, William M. (William Murray), 1828-1915.
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1853
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    expected from a writer so thoroughly acquainted with all the branches of the theory and practice of medicine. Mr Macarthur read a communication on Epileptic Convulsions, which con- tained illustrative cases, and some very ingenious original views. The essay On the Modes of Dying, presented by Mr Marshall, was one of much excellence; the same may be said of the dis- sei-tations on the Effects of mind in disease, read by Mr Pringle, on Phlebitis, by Mr Nasmyth, on The Homologies of the Upper and Lower extremities of Man, by Mr GuUand, and on The history of Inoculation and Vaccination, by Mr Gourlay. Some animated discussions followed the reading of these papers. Mr Collins and Mr Burn read papers on Medico-Botanical sub- jects ; the former gentleman on The Medicinal Plants of the Solanacece; the latter, an admirable paper on those of the Liliacece. The subjects allotted to these gentlemen were treated in a very- able and careful manner. Mr Steiner, with an enthusiasm for the Society rarely equalled, came fi'om England for the express purpose of reading to the Society his dissertation on ^' Colour, which contained an excellent resumS of all that was known on the subject, and also many new experiments on Haamatosin, etc. Mr Steiner presented a series of illustrative specimens to the Society, and a similar liberal gift of pharmaceutic preparations was made by Mr Burn at another period of the session. I must not forget to mention the elegantly written communica- tion read by Mr Duff, On the Indian disease termed the Maha- muree; nor the kind communication of my friend Dr Lownds, H.E.I.C.S, on The Fever of Scinde. Another communica- tion, has since been received by Dr Broadbent from the same gentleman on the subject of Snake Poisoning; but unfortu- nately too late to be read this session. I trust tbat my own com- munication on a Punctm'ed Wound of the Heart, and some demonstrations of morbid growths, were not entirely devoid of interest or benefit to the members of the Society. To take a general review, the dissertations of this year have partaken of a more elevated character than in any session within ray own recollection. There was another important communica-