Volume 1

The Hunterian oration, presidential addresses, and pathological and surgical writings.

  • Hawkins, Caesar Henry, 1798-1884.
Date:
1874
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    written after the obscurity regarding the distribution and double office of the fifth nerve had been cleared up by Mayo (Mayo's Commentaries, vol. i., p. 107, August 1822), and by J. Shaw himself (^Medical and Physical Journal, vol. xlviii., p. 342, October 1822), and the errors thus corrected, into which Sir C. Bell had previously fallen ; by which corrections a far clearer view of the whole of Bell's class of symmetrical nerves had been obtained. He makes no claim to the discovery, positively, of sensation residing in the posterior roots of the spinal nerves, at the very time when he would naturally have done so, if he desired it; nor am I aware of such a claim in precise terms by any one on behalf of Bell till 1824. P.S.—December 22nd. A friend has this day sent me the October number of the ]Ve7v York Journal of Psychological Medicine and Jurisprudence, containing a paper by Professor Austin Flint, entitled Historical con- siderations concerning the Properties of the Eoots of the Spinal Nerves, which is drawn up with great care, and with ample references to English and continental writers ; and it so entirely coincides with what I have written from my own knowledge, that if it had appeared earlier in this country, I should have taken no part in the matter. ANNUAL ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE FELLOWS OF THE KOTAL MEDICAL & CHIRUKGICAL SOCIETY, On Monday, March 2nd, 1857, By C^SAR H. HAWKINS, F.R.S., PRESIDENT. Gentlemen,—The Report of the Council is so ample, that there is only one subject, on which, ii^ this addi'ess, which usage demands from your President, I shall offer any remark—namely, the recommendation, which you have just adopted, sanctioning the future meetings of the Pathological Society in our rooms. I had the honour of being one of its earliest vice-presidents, and, sub- sequently, its president, and have seen with great pleasure its uniformly increasing utility, and the great storehouse of valuable information contained