Abstract
<h3>ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.</h3> The medical orator of to-day, standing, as it were, between two centuries, must naturally, whilst regarding the present, glance also backwards and forwards. Now what was the condition of medicine a hundred years ago? Well, thanks to the work mainly of Haller, of Göttingen, and of Morgagni, of Padua, the old mysticism had to a large extent been dissipated, and a physiological foundation was laid by the first, and a pathological one by the second, for that vast superstructure of facts on which are based the medicine and surgery not only of 100 years ago, but of to-day. Haller and Morgagni were true disciples, though at a considerable interval, of Vesalius, who, following Mondino de Luzzi, first broke completely through the deadening influence of the Galenical tradition, and founded human anatomy on direct observation alone. Then it was that the paralyzing effect of the Roman edict
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