THE HARVEIAN ORATION 1865. BY HENRY W. ACLAND, M.D. OXON., LL.D. CANTAB., F.R.S., REGIUS PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, AND HON. PHYSICIAN TO H. R. H. THE PRINCE OF WALES. London: MACMILLAN AND CO. THE HARVEIAN ORATION, 1865. WE celebrate once more the memory of those who in past times have brought honour to the College of Physicians of England; the memory also of those who have recently gone, of Kirkes, whose learning and skill were appreciated, and whose loss is lamented, wherever medical literature is known, of Turner, of the worthy brother of noblehearted Southey, of Bird, and Duke, of one not yet laid in his grave, whose strong nature brought great fruit to others, to us, to himself-Ferguson; but above all of HARVEY, Founder of this commemorative Holyday. Happy we whom custom and his direction withdraw for a brief hour from the din and care of life to this peaceful task! The occasion is singular. It might have been better if, when for the first time in History, HARVEY is discussed in his native tongue before the College he loved so well, the Cicero of English Medicine, as our B |