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4 But, gentlemen, we are not discouraged. Greatly, indeed, is it to be regretted that popular esteem is so often misplaced, and rather tends to encourage bold, presumptuous, and unblushing ignorance, than to raise true merit from the vale of obscurity. Let us persevere in the profession in which honour and usefulness have induced us to embark, and so in the end shall we prove ourselves to have been worthy followers in the footsteps of the immortal founders of the Royal Medical Society.

MURRAY AND GIBB, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.