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44 wards and laboratories for the perusal of such antiquated works as have been published as much as twenty years ago, and particularly for gaining acquaintance at first hand with Virchow’s Cellular Pathology, and the Lectures of Watson, Trousseau and Stokes; or, if their time and inclination does not allow of more extended research, at least to read such succinct masterpieces as Laennec’s Mediate Auscultation, Heberden’s Commentaries, Sydenham’s Treatise on Gout, and Harvey on the Movement of the Heart and of the Blood.

(iii.) I would, moreover, exhort Fellows of the College to see that, while all the new methods of Experimental Pathology and of Pharmacology are carried out by duly trained physiologists, we do not neglect the fundamental method taught and practised by Harvey of inspecting the bodies of those who have died of disease. It was this union of Morbid Anatomy with Clinical Observation which