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quires no small abilities, and demands of those who engage in the arduous pursuit an enlarged and benevolent mind. But notwitstanding these difficulties, this science must still be productive of very great advantages and honour to a seminary of learning, to a city and to a country; where the wisdom of well concerted laws, and the encouragement given to the promoters of it, are sufficient to procure it an effectual estabishment.
A thirst of knowledge and a spirit of inquiry are natural to man. It merits our endeavours to direct these to worthy objects. Whilst we are anxious to inform ourselves what were the customs of former ages, by what boundaries distant kingdoms are limited, what were the rites and ceremonies of barbarous nations, or what flowers bloom in the remote Indies;—shall we have no desire of studying what more immediately relates to ourselves? shall we neglect to examine into the divinely curious and amazing structure of our own bodies? are we not concerned in applying our pursuits, to find out the nature of those multiplied calamities to which the human frame is unavoidably exposed, and the means of removing or asswaging those calamities?
To hint at the means whereby we may accomplish the institution of medical schools in this city, and to
