DEDICATED TO THE NUMEROUS PHYSICIANS WHO FROM TIME TO TIME HAVE PATIENTLY SAT UNDER MY INSTRUCTION DURING A LONG CAREER AS A TEACHER OF MEDICINE PREFACE If asked why I republish these addresses I confess to some embarrassment in seeking justification for again imposing on the patience of those who may have read them and trespassing on the time of those who may read them for the first time. A truthful answer would, I think, be a desire to revive the memory of the pleasant occasions on which they were delivered. But I confess also that some expressions of approval at the time have kept alive the embers of a pride of authorship which were always ready to be fanned into a more active flame by a suitable stimulus. Such a stimulus has come to me with the increased leisure allowed by my retirement from the absorbing duties of my professorship. I feel, too, that I am sending "a repeated message" to many of my old students which some will be glad to receive. CONTENTS PAGE XII. Response to the Toast of our "Foreign Guests" at the |