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SKETCHES
FROM
THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE

Ancient and Modern.
AN ORATION
DELIVERED BEFORE
THE HUNTERIAN SOCIETY,
at the london institution,
ON THE 13TH FEBRUARY, 1867,
BY
Wm. SEDGWICK SAUNDERS, M.D.
LICENTIATE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, EDINBURGH.—VICE-PRESIDENT
OF THE HUNTERIAN SOCIETY.—TREASURER TO THE NEW SYDENHAM SOCIETY.—
EXAMINING PHYSICIAN TO THE EAST INDIAN—SCINDE AND DELHI—BOMBAY
AND BARODA—GREAT SOUTHERN OF INDIA—CALCUTTA AND SOUTH EASTERN
—AND OUDE AND ROHILKUND RAILWAY COMPANIES.—MEDICAL OFFICER
TO THE CITY OF GLASGOW LIFE ASSURANCE CORPORATION AND THE
METROPOLITAN FIRE BRIGADE, &c.—AUTHOR OF THE “CAUSES
AND PREVENTION OF CHOLERA” AND “REPORTS ON
CHOLERA IN THE CITY OF LONDON, 1866.”
PRINTED AT THE REQUEST OF THE COUNCIL.
For Private Circulation.
2LONDON:
PRINTED BY M. & W. COLLIS. 50, BOW LANE, CHEAPSIDE, E.C.
1868.
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ORATION.

Mr. President,

I purpose to devote the time, which your indulgencehas placed at my disposal this evening, to laying beforeyou the results of some inquiries into the origin andhistory of medicine and of the medical profession;regarding the subject rather from a social than froma scientific point of view.

My scheme will introduce you to some of your oldacquaintances; not for instruction, but to remind youof those passages in their lives which may have beenpressed out of your memories by the sterner realities of

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