Lettsomian Lectures on Insanity (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Lettsomian Lectures on Insanity Having had the honour of being appointed Lettsomian Professor of Medicine, of the Medical Society of London, I accepted the office with, I trust, a humble appreciation of my capacity to discharge satisfactorily its duties in a manner commensurate with their grave importance. The distinction conferred upon me is one not to be lightly esteemed. To be selected from a body of physicians of great and admitted eminence, of profound learning, of scientific attainments of a high order, of undoubted eloquence, as Lettsomian lecturer on Medicine, is an event which I shall ever cherish with lively emotions, as one of the most pleasing and personally gratifying occurrences in my chequered life. The post thus assigned to me by your kindness, entails upon me the pleasing duty of delivering, before this Society, three lectures connected with that division of medical science with which the physician is supposed to be especially conversant In selecting three topics for illustration, I felt anxious to bring under review subjects worthy of your consideration, and involving in their elucidation, points of theoretical as well as of practical interest I flattered myself that I should be realizing your anticipations, and be acting in unison with the wishes of the Council, if I were to confine myself to the exposition of three points connected with those investigations with which my own mind is supposed to be more particularly occupied. Under this impression, I have, with, I hope, a right sense of the difficulty of my self-imposed task, selected, as the subject of my first and introductory lecture, a question of extreme interest to all engaged in the practice of medicine. 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.