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 HARVEY IN ANCIENT AND MODERN MEDICINE

In submission, Mr. President, to your behest, but with sore discouragement when I call to mind the names of some of the 172 Fellows who have preceded me in this office, it devolves upon me to-day to exhort the Fellows of this College to concord; to commemorate by name our Benefactors; and to exhort our Fellows and Members to search and study out the secrets of Nature by way of experiment. As to the first injunction, a general change in manners has made it less necessary than formerly; we no longer wear swords or use them, our language is more conventional and less emphatic, and there are