PREFACE. Xlll 



will be easily discovered by the learned and im- 

 partial reader; especially from the notes, in which 

 he has treated some of these subjects rather more 

 minutely than, in the text, was compatible with 

 the conciseness of his plan. 



He has been at great pains in arranging- the 

 subjects, so that the sections might succeed natu- 

 rally and easily, and arise, as it were, one out of 

 another. 



He has not quoted a dry farrago of books, but 

 a select number, in doing which, he has wished 

 both to point out to students some excellent au- 

 thors not commonly known, especially those who 

 have professedly treated on particular branches of 

 the subject, and to open, besides medical sources 

 of information, others not yet applied, he con- 

 ceives, to Physiology as they deserve. 



His grand object has been to deliver, in a faith- 

 ful, concise, and intelligible manner, the princi- 

 ples of a science inferior in beauty, importance, 

 and utility, to no part of medicine, if the words 



