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 forgotten by the mass of the brotherhood; and even here, in the city of his birth and labours, how few are there who are aware of the benefits he has conferred upon us! The school originated by him still flourishes, receiving, as he himself foretold, "a constant accession of strength, and annually exerting new vigour, and has given birth to numerous other useful institutions of a similar kind, spreading the light of medical knowledge through the whole American continent."

His Discourse on the "Institution of Medical Schools in America" is, considering the state of medicine at the time it was written, a remarkable production, and should be republished and circulated as an act of justice to his memory. Although the science has advanced immeasurably since that day, his enlarged views of what is required of a medical practitioner by preliminary education, his high-toned sentiments