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Excerpt from Introductory Lecture to the Course of Chemistry: Delivered in Jefferson Medical College, October 13th, 1852
IT is with no ordinary feelings, gentlemen, that I receive your cordial greetings. I know that they proceed from warm and generous hearts and I should be unworthy of your esteem, were it possible for me to stand here unmoved. The occasion makes me revert to the time, now thirty years ago, when I made my first essay as a chemical teacher, and lectured to a private class of but six pupils, under the auspices of a valued and generous friend, now no more.* Little did I then think that the future honour was reserved for me of addressing some of the largest medical classes that have ever assembled in our wide-extended country.
My duty in the chair Which I have the honour to hold in this College, is to teach chemistry as applied to medicine. In per forming this duty, it is necessary to teach the principles of che mistry; for, without these, its applications could not be understood. Accordingly, I shall feel myself justified in presenting a syste matic view of the fundamental doctrines of the science, dwelling upon those parts which have medical applications, and treating the remainder with comparative brevity.
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