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PROFESSOR OF PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY IN THE NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE.

ANNIVERSARY DISCOURSE.

Mr. President And Fellows Of The New York
Academy Of Medicine:

Standing in the presence of so many of my profession whom I have been accustomed to reverence, I might feel some embarrassment, did I not remember that I am placed here to-night by you and in your service; and that this is an occasion not intended especially to call forth your criticism, but to enkindle anew and to expand our professional sympathy. I would gladly, therefore, render the exercises of the present hour an entertainment to you, instead of a task. But I must select no trivial theme; and since the regular exercises of this association are mostly of a kind in accordance with tire precept that—

"That which before us lies in daily life
Is the prime wisdom"—

I do not feel at liberty to select a strictly practical
subject. I will, therefore, present some thoughts
upon the progress and the spirit of medical science, and
its claims upon medical men.

"Hitherto/' says a French critic,* "medicine—

* Louis Peisse: La M6decine et les Medecins, Pari?, 1857.