Essays on Surgical Subjects (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Essays on Surgical Subjects<br><br>"The moral of the whole story is this: that we should do all that we can to partake of Virtue and Wisdom in this life." - Socrates is speaking.<br><br>This is a day of remembrance. We have come together to do honour to one of the founders of this College, a great surgeon whose loss we mourn. You have laid upon me the duty and the high privilege of offering in your name and in my own, and if I may for the moment assume a wider responsibility, in the name of all the surgeons of his time, a tribute to the illustrious memory of Dr. J. B. Murphy.<br><br>John Benjamin Murphy was an arresting personality. Even after the briefest intercourse with him there were few people who did not realize that he possessed a curious and subtle power of impressing a sense of his character upon them. His very handsome face, his tall, spare, almost gaunt figure, his high-pitched and vibrant voice, his burning and quenchless enthusiasm for life in all its manifold activities, his power of complete self-expression, all clamoured for notice, and caught and held the most eager attention. His outlook was grave and serious; he seemed always in earnest.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.