TO JAMES SYME, F.R.S.E. SURGEON IN ORDINARY TO THE QUEEN IN SCOTLAND PROFESSOR OF CLINICAL SURGERY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH &c. &c. &°C. WITH THE AFFECTIONATE REGARDS OF HIS OLD APPRENTICE. NOTE. THE present volume consists of a re-issue of the more purely professional papers published in 1866, to which I have added a few words on Dr. John Scott, Mr. Syme, and Sir Robert Christison. They are addressed more to myself than to any one else. At the request of a valued friend, the little Lectures on Health have been added as an Appendix. With some true things, and not unimportant, there are some rash and jejune ones; but though recognising fully the immense enlargement of our means of knowledge in these latter years, I would put in as strong a word as ever for the cultivation and concentration of the unassisted senses. Microscopes, sphygmographs, etc., are |