On heredity in relation to disease : the Harveian Oration for 1908, delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London on October 19th, 1908 / by J.A. Ormerod.

  • Ormerod, J. A. (Joseph Arderne), 1848-1925.
Date:
1908
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Credit: On heredity in relation to disease : the Harveian Oration for 1908, delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London on October 19th, 1908 / by J.A. Ormerod. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    10 ON HEREDITY IN RELATION TO DISEASE known to you that I need not recapitulate them. But besides these, and others than these, who have given money, lands, books or other good things to the College, there are those who have devoted their time and talents to its service, or who have shed a lustre upon it by their learning, their discoveries, or their distinguished career. They, also, in the truest sense are benefactors of the College. I look in that invaluable book. Dr. Munk's ' Roll of the College of Physicians,' and I see—first, a long list of Presidents under whose care and devotion the College has thriven, reaching back from yourself, Sir, to our revered founder Linacre ; next, men famous in science, physicists like Grilbert, Wollaston, Thomas Young, Arnott; chemists, such as Prout and Alexander Marcet; naturalists and botanists, such as Pother gill, William Pitcairn, Sir Hans Sloane ; anatomists and physiologists, at whose head stands Harvey himself, Richard Lower, and such great names as those of Glisson, Havers, William Hunter, Wharton, Willis. There have been famous authors