An introductory lecture delivered at the London Hospital Medical School, at the commencement of session 1847-8 / by George Critchett.

  • Critchett, G. (George), 1817-1882.
Date:
1847
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Credit: An introductory lecture delivered at the London Hospital Medical School, at the commencement of session 1847-8 / by George Critchett. 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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    think, that whatever mental faculty or endoAvment be specially prominent or active, no profession is so calculated as our own to afford an ample and useful field for its exercise, and to give to the entire mental constitution ever-varying nourishment and occu- pation. Should your talent lie in tracing out the infinitely beautiful and minute arrangements of organic life in health and disease, what a new world of intense interest the microscope opens up; what a mine of hidden wealth is thus revealed! Nature is questioned in her most secret recesses, in the very laboratory of her cunning works, and she reveals to the patient and acute observer the beauty of her arrangements and the wonders of her laws. It will be a proud thing if you are able to place yourselves among the modern discoverers in this branch of science, and it may cheer you on to reflect, that if a flood of light has been poured upon us from this source, a large tract of undiscovered country still remains, where the young aspirant may win for himself scientific honours; and when I remind you that you will be marshalled on in the pursuit by such an eminent and successful micro-, scopic inquirer as Dr. Carpenter, and by such a careful and promising investigator as Dr. Parker, you will feel that you enter on the task under the brightest auspices. Every outward sense—the eye, the ear, the touch—may be perfected by practice, and most B 2