Contents: I. On self-limited diseases - II. On the treatment of disease - III. Practical views of medical education - IV. Report on homoeopathy - V. On the medical profession, and quackery - VI. On gout and its treatment - VII. Aphorisms on cholera - VIII. On the treatment of injuries occasioned by fire and heated substances - IX. On the burial of the dead, and the cemetery at Mount Auburn - X. The death of Pliny the Elder - XI. Remarks and experiments on pneumothorax - XII. On the pharmacopoeia of the United States - XIII. On the mucuna pruriens : with remarks on the irritability of different textures - XIV. On the poisonous effects of the American partridge, or ruffed grouse - XV. On coffee and tea, and their medicinal effects - XVI. Report of the action of Cochituate water on lead pipes, and the influence of the same on health - XVII. On the poisonous properties of certain American species of rhus - XVIII .On the history and use of tobacco - XIX. On the early history of medicine - XX. Address delivered before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, at the opening of their course of lectures, October 27, 1852