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HUNTERIAN ORATION.

GENTLEMEN,

‘Tue return of this day affords us another opportunity of testifying our acknowledgment of the merits, and our sense of the services rendered to Chirurgical Science, by men of genius and worth.

In the performance of this very pleasing duty, we pay the debt of gratitude to great men who lived in distant ages of the world; and, at the same time, take a useful retrospect