TO 



THE STUDENTS OF MEDICINE 



IN THE 



UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



Gentlemen, 



A PORTION of the Philadelfihia Medical and Physical 

 Journal is, with great respect, and even with peculiar propriety, 

 inscribed to you. With respect, by reason of my personal esteem 

 for, my sincere attachment to, many of you ; my good wishes for 

 all of you : with propriety, as without the zeal which you always 

 manifest for the advancement of medical and natural knowledge, 

 works of this nature would rarely be undertaken, and could not 

 be supported. 



It is a fact, and it is one which greatly redounds to their honour, 

 that the Medical Students of the United-States, a very consi- 

 derable PROPORTION OF WHOM ANNUALLY VISIT THE UNIVER- 

 SITY OF Pennsylvania, are, at this time, the principal support- 

 ers, and by no means the least respectable cultivators, of all the 

 branches of Medical and Philosophical Science, within the limits 

 of the Union. It is, consequently, among the students of medi- 

 cine that we are to look for some of the most successful efforts 

 for the advancement of those useful and noble studies, which lay 

 the foundation of our individual prosperity and happiness in life ; 

 which so essenlially administer to the happiness of those around 

 us, Avhile they even confer the highest species of dignity upon 

 om" country, and our times. 



