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Excerpt from Address Before the Philadelphia County Medical Society: Delivered January 30, 1862
Four hundred years, then, before the Christian era, we find our science in the foremost rank of intellectual pursuits, respected not merely in consequence of its practical utility, but as an agent in conducing to the development of the mighty truths of nature, which were destined to disenthral the understanding, and rivalling the aesthetic arts which at the period culminated in such wonderful beauty and perfection as almost to induce the belief they were the work of inspiration.
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