With the AUTHOR'S Compliments.] AN INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTAL TRAINING IN MEDICAL STUDY. DELIVERED AT THE OPENING OF THE WINTER SESSION IN THE Reprinted from THE BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL and THE LANCET of October 6th, 1894. LONDON: CHARLES J. CLARK, 4, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, W.C, INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS, 1894. GENTLEMEN, The honour of greeting you at the opening of a new academic year has fallen this time to me, and custom demands that I should begin with some brief reference to the changes that have taken place among us during the year that is past. The respect and esteem of more than thirty generations of St. George's men have followed Dr. Dickinson in his retirement from the active service of the hospital he has served so well and the school to which he has added such conspicuous lustre. With them have mingled our congratulations at the entrance of Dr. Lee Dickinson on the path his father and his grandfather have trodden before him. With no less gratification do we see Dr. Cyril Ogle following likewise in his father's steps, and exercising in turn the office ascribed of old to Rhadamanthus. In Mr. Gardner, who has succeeded Dr. Rideal in the lectureship on chemistry, we welcome another link with the older universities with which our school has been so long and so honourably connected. Both Oxford and Cambridge have contributed of their best to fill three new offices created during the year, for Dr. Remfry has entered the staff as assistant obstetric physician, while Dr. Dickson has been appointed junior anesthetist, and Dr. Wilson assistant curator. In Mr. Jaffrey, who succeeds Dr. Kempson as demonstrator of anatomy, we trust to find a worthy |