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Excerpt from Essays on Surgical Subjects "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. 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. 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.