. A discourse delivered before the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts : 9th June, 1795. dciEtV,Boston, June gtb, 1^95. VOTED, That the President,/r/7 Vice President, fecvtdVice President, Hon. Judge Sumner, andtheHbn. WilliamShepard, Efq; be a Committee to wait upon the Hon. John BrooksEfq ; and return him the thanks of this Society for hit ingenious and elegantDifcourfe delivered this day j and to requefi of him a copy for the Copy of Record, AVERT, jun, Rec. Secretary/ Boston, June gtht , I feel myfeif highly honoured by the vote of the Hu
. A discourse delivered before the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts : 9th June, 1795. dciEtV,Boston, June gtb, 1^95. VOTED, That the President,/r/7 Vice President, fecvtdVice President, Hon. Judge Sumner, andtheHbn. WilliamShepard, Efq; be a Committee to wait upon the Hon. John BrooksEfq ; and return him the thanks of this Society for hit ingenious and elegantDifcourfe delivered this day j and to requefi of him a copy for the Copy of Record, AVERT, jun, Rec. Secretary/ Boston, June gtht , I feel myfeif highly honoured by the vote of the Humane Society* which you have been pleafed (o politely to communicate. A copy of the Difcourfe is herewith inclofed, and refpe&nilly fubmitted to* your difpofal. In addition to my earneft wifhes for the fuccefs of the Inftitution, be pleafed to accept of the aflurances of refpecl with which I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your moft Obedient, Humble Servant, JOHN BROOKS. Hon. Thomas Russiil, Efq. Jonathan Mason, Efq. John Warren, M. D. ^ Committee. Hon. Judge Summer. Hon. Wiw-iAM Shepard, P I S C O U R S E, &c. Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Humane Society, Y. OUR Inftitutiori, which has invited us hither ftthis time, prefents itfelf to us in a twofold light. Whileit is calculated to awaken and invigorate fome of the beftprinciples of the heart, it contemplates the relations whichfubfift between the human body and the various objects bywhich it is furrounded. To explain the moral branch of the inftitution and to in-culcate the precepts of it, are among the plealing dutieswhich fall within the province of another profeffion, whofelearning and eloquence, I may with confidence add, willever be employed in diffuiing a fpirit of genuine bene-volence. volencc and philanthropy. It will therefore be more con-genial with your wifhes, and my profeflion, to employ afew of the prefent moments in fome confidefations relatingto medical fcience. And as from the leiTons of experie
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