An account of the life and writings of the late Alexr. Munro Senr. : delivered as the Harveian oration at Edinburgh, for the year 1780 / By Andrew Duncan.

  • Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828.
Date:
1780
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the life and writings of the late Alexr. Munro Senr. : delivered as the Harveian oration at Edinburgh, for the year 1780 / By Andrew Duncan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    due veneration for the moft valuable cha- raster, that of Harvey muft animate the efforts of every fpeaker, muft awaken the attention of every hearer. But to give a juft delineation of Angu¬ lar mdrit, requires no inconfiderable (hare of tliofe very abilities which are to be the fubjedt of detail. I truft, however, that the benevolence of your difpofi- tions, will compenfate the deficiency of my endeavours; and I flatter myfelf, that what is now to be delivered, will be can¬ didly received, at leaft as the beft apology for what may have been expedted. Thefe confiderations will, I doubt not, fecure to me an indulgent and attentive hearing, when I am now to prefent you with fome account of the late Dr Alex¬ ander Monro, who may juftly be con- fidered as the father and founder of the Medical School at this place. If, while I endeavour to delineate his charadter, fuch an example fhall be fet before you, as may challenge your efteem, and excite your imitation, the tribute thus paid to the dead