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THE

HUNTERIAN ORATION,

1821.

GENTLEMEN,

In continuation of a wise and liberal Institution which has been happily established in this College, we are again assembled on the anniversary of the birth of John Hunter, to perform the pleasing duty of acknowledging the merits of those persons, by whose labours and discoveries Surgery has been brought to its present state of improvement; and especially to set before �