THE WORKS

OF

SIR BENJAMIN COLLINS BRODIE

BART. D.C.L.

SERJEANT-SURGEON TO THE QUEEN,

PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, ETC.

WITH AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY

CHARLES HAWKINS

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, & GREEN.
1865.

Being a series of Essays intended to illustrate the Mutual Relations of

the Physical Organisation and the Mental Faculties

PSYCHOLOGICAL INQUIRIES. PART II. .

Being a series of Essays intended to illustrate some Points in the

Physical and Moral History of Man.

INTRODUCTORY LECTURE AT THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN

359

ON THE MODE IN WHICH DEATH IS PRODUCED BY A STROKE OF LIGHTNING. 439

THE HUNTERIAN ORATION, DELIVERED AT THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SUR-

GEONS, LONDON, IN 1837

443

INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE, DELIVERED at ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL, 1838. 465

'On the Studies required for the Medical Profession.'

INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE, DELIVERED AT ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL, 1843. 485

'On the Duties and Conduct of Medical Students and Practitioners.'

INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE, DELIVERED AT ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL, 1846. 506

'On the mode of Investigating the Sciences belonging to the Medical

Profession.'

ADDRESS TO THE PUPILS OF ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL, 1850.

At the Distribution of Prizes.

532

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ADDRESS AS PRESIDENT OF THE WESTERN MEDICAL AND SURGICAL

SOCIETY, 1850.

ADDRESS AS PRESIDENT OF THE ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 1853

539

547

ADDRESS AS PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIAL ECONOMY DEPARTMENT OF THE

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, 1857. 553

ADDRESS AS PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, 1858.

503

ADDRESS AS PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, 1859.

616

ADDRESS AS PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, 1860.

ADDRESS AS PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, 1861 .

ON QUACKS AND QUACKERY

IN MEMORIAM.

I WISH it to be understood that, in preparing this edition. of Sir BENJAMIN BRODIE'S Works, I have not pretended to place myself in the position usually occupied by an 'editor.' Apart from my inability for undertaking such a duty, his works do not require 'editing—that is, his language needs no explanations or elucidation. He was himself constantly employed in correcting and revising his own productions, and he has left each of them fully on a level with the present state of medical science. In the very last year of his life he occupied himself by having his early notes of cases read over to him (for, unhappily, the state of his sight did not permit him to read), and he dictated many valuable observations, which have been incorporated in this edition of his works. which have been appended, are mostly in reference to other writers.

The few notes,

I have not presumed to write a Life.' A friendship which extended over more than twenty years, during which