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RESTORATIVE MEDICINE. 25 ality was in proportion as wholesome and econo- mical as our monthly repast. You, however, have degraded into a ballot-box the punch-bowl given you by Dr. Friend and his co-censors,* and scorn to dine abroad unless tempted by French cookery and the costliest vintages. We have at any rate the grace to feel that gormandizing would be misplaced within our walls, and until prevalent habits become more moderate, I do not see that we could carry out Harvey's wishes in any mode better than by this conversazione. Let us, how- ever, look upon it as a provisional feast.

Some of our benefactors are distinguished as the founders of sundry lectureships called after their names, with which you are familiar. Applied, as intended, to the ocular demonstration of physio- logical discoveries, these are still made useful.

Notwithstanding, I cannot conscientiously exhort you to a literal following of Croone, or Gulston, or Lumley. The date of a small volume in your library, published by William Caxton at the bot- tom of the next street in 1471, reminds you that four centuries ago there had begun a revolution which renders the foundation of new Lectureships 3
 * In 1719.