Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Introductory Lecture, Read Before the Medical Class of Harvard University: November 5, 1845
The professors in turn deliver the Introductory Lecture to the courses given in this school. It becomes in time a matter of some difficulty and thought to settle upon a subject for the annual discourse. I must confess I felt somewhat troubled by my election, or rather present rotation, to this office. But very happily for me, just at the time, an advertisement in one of the daily papers removed that portion of my embarrassment which the choice of a subject involved. The following is the notice referred to.
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