Page:Restorative medicine - an Harveian annual oration delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, London, on June 21, 1871 (the 210th anniversary) (IA restorativemedic00cham).pdf/40

26 RESTORATIVE MEDICINE. an anachronism. The printing-press has crushed the pulpit. It is wise to accept the fact, and to devote to the spread of knowledge by the newer mode, those funds in the disposal of which we may wish to rival the open-handed among our ancestors. There is no way by which a man shall more surely hand down his surname to futurity than by linking it with the publication of the researches of others in a more liberal form than their incomes allow. Remember that you have at your disposal not your own purses only, but that those of your patients will often open at your bidding. I read in the annals that the table and cushions I have alluded to were given "suasu Doc- toris Mound efordi," and I commend the example to your imitation. Dr. Moundeford had been a kind friend to Lady Arabella during her struggle against the mean tyranny of James the First; and he apparently preferred that the graceful acknowledgment of his kindness should be paid to his college rather than to himself.

Those who like modern instances best, may find one in the noble contest last year between our co- fellow Dr. Quain and Mr. Cunliffe the banker, as to which should give £2000 to secure the build-