common-sense public you will appeal to. The less
pretension you make, the better they will like you in the long run. I
hope we shall make everything as plain and as simple to you as we can.
I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer
the purpose. I know there are professors in this country who "ligate"
arteries. Other surgeons only tie them, and it stops the bleeding just
as well. It is the familiarity and simplicity of bedside instruction
which makes it so pleasant as well as so profitable. A good clinical
teacher is himself a Medical School. We need not wonder that our young
men are beginning to announce themselves not only as graduates of this
or that College, but also as pupils of some one distinguished master.

I wish to close this Lecture, if you will allow me a few moments longer,
with a brief sketch of an instructor and practitioner whose character
was as nearly a model one in both capacities as I can find anywhere
recorded.

Dr. JAMES JACKSON, Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine
in this University from 1812 to 1846, and whose name has been since
retained on our rolls as Professor Emeritus, died on the 27th of August
last, in the ninetieth year of his age. He studied his profession, as
I have already mentioned, with Dr. Holyoke of Salem, one of the few
physicians who have borne witness to their knowledge of the laws of life
by living to complete their hundredth year. I think the student took
his Old Master, as he always loved to call him, as his model; each was
worthy of the other, and both were bright examples to all who come after
them.

I remember that in the sermon preached by Dr. Grazer after Dr. Holyoke's
death, one of the points most insisted upon as characteristic of that
wise and good old man was the perfect balance of all his faculties. The
same harmonious adjustment of powers, the same symmetrical arrangement
of life, the same complete fulfilment of every day's duties, without
haste and without needless delay, which characterized the master,
equally distinguished the scholar. A glance at the life of our own Old
Master, if I can do any justice at all to his excellences, will give
you something to carry away from this hour's meeting not unworthy to be
remembered.

From December, 1797, to October, 1799, he remained with Dr. Holyoke as a
student, a period which he has spoken of as a most interesting and
most gratifying part of his life. After this he passed eight