Page:The Hunterian oration, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons in London, on the fourteenth day of February, 1821 (electronic resource) (IA b21483851).pdf/33

25 excited to labour, and to encourage others to labour, in this boundless scope for the exertions of all.

Anatomy was cultivated with considerable ardour, by some intelligent persons in England; but the schools in which it was taught were few, and miserably defective; both as it respected the plans of the teachers, and the facilities afforded to learners. To what a lamentable degree these deficiencies continued to exist, down to the time of Dr. William Hunter, who began to lecture in 1746, and was admitted a Member of the Corporation of Surgeons, in 1747, may be judged of, by the following extract from one of his introductory lectures*——“In the

�
 * Page 88.