Excerpt from Introductory Lecture: Delivered at the Massachusetts Medical College, November 6th, 1849 Sir At a meeting of the Medical Class of Harvard University, held yesterday morning, a Committee was appointed to request, for publication, a copy of your Introductory Address, delivered at the commencement of the present course of Lectures. The undersigned have the honor to constitute that Committee; and in the hope that the solicitation will be agreeable to yourself and complied with at your earliest convenience, Are, with the highest respect and esteem, Your obedient servants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.