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striving to render the life that now is, longer, healthier, pleasanter, happier, by manifold methods of cure, palliation, and prevention; in full assurance that true knowledge is real power; and that, if we make the discovery of truth our motive, and use intelligent industry as our means, we shall not miss some portion of that rich reward which fell in unwonted measure to the lot of him whose “immortal memory” we honour this day, for this among other reasons, that he conferred upon us, in the full practical sense of the words, the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood.

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