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every question in the scientific spirit. This means careful 

 observation, candor of mind, and patient suspension of 

 judgment until sufficient grounds for a conclusion are 

 forthcoming, and if they do not exist, then to leave the 

 question unsettled. 



The recent addition of tropical islands to our territory 

 and the number of our citizens that go thither in military 

 and civil service, together with the semi-tropical climate of 

 our Gulf states, have led the author to deem care of the 

 health in warm climates a topic of sufficient importance to 

 require special references to it. 



Those illustrations which are not original are taken 

 from the works of Huxley, Testut (Anatomie Humaine\ 

 Kellogg, Thornton, Foster, Fabre, and Sappe"e. The author 

 has taken pleasure in designing the colored plates and 

 manikin, as so many schools lack facilities for instruction 

 and as dissections are seldom advisable. The handsome 

 execution of the numerous line engravings and colored 

 plates testifies to the liberality of the publishers and to their 

 purpose to' place this work in the schools in the form most 

 useful and instructive to the pupils. 



Sincere thanks are returned to the following persons for 

 valuable aid in reading the proof : W. S. Carter, M.D., 

 Franklin W. Barrows, M.D., Alfred Patton, M.D., J. W. 

 Thomason, M.D., J. Philip Gibbs, M.D., D. W. Lewis, A.M., 

 H. C. Pritchett, A.M., Mrs. Rosa Buchanan, Miss L. W. 

 Elliott, Miss A. Lawrence, and Professor R. B. Halley. 



