DEDICATION. Yll 



because medicine is not yet a perfect science. 

 I have endeavoured, by some additions, to 

 render it yet more full and instructive. 



Having witnessed and shared the advan- 

 tages you now enjoy, permit me to congratu- 

 late you on the improved state of medical 

 education in I^ew England. 



We have multiplied means, and increasing 

 facilities for the acquisition of every species 

 of knowledge, necessary to form intelligent 

 and accomplished physicians and surgeons. 

 In return for these privileges, in a great meas- 

 ure peculiar to this period, every individual, 

 connected with the profession, should be am- 

 bitious to contribute something for its further 

 advancement. 



Any man of common industry and capac- 

 ity, can observe facts and record them, and in 

 due time give them to the public. Or, if the 

 habit of thus noticing the many phenomena 

 and events, wliich are constantly presenting 

 themselves to the attentive physician, and 

 which without it are too often suffered to es- 

 cape him, should not increase the number 

 of our useful publications, it would at least 

 improve the practice of individuals. That 

 you may attain eminence in the science you 



