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TO 



WILLIAM PULTENEY ALISON, 



M.D., F.R.S.E., &c. &c. 



PROFESSOR OF THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. 



MY DEAR SIR, 



I take the liberty of inscribing the following Work to you, as an 

 expression of my grateful remembrance of the value of your instructions, 

 of my respect for those intellectual faculties which render you pre-emi- 

 nent amongst the Medical Philosophers of our time, and of my admiration 

 for those moral excellencies which call forth the warm regard of all who 

 are acquainted with your character. 



In many parts of this Treatise you will find that doctrines, which you 

 have long upheld in opposition to almost the whole Physiological world, 

 are defended with such resources as I could command ; and that, in 

 many instances, such convincing evidence of their truth has been 

 afforded by recent observations, that further opposition to them would 

 now seem vain. And if I have presumed to differ from you on some 

 points, it has been in the spirit of that independence which you have 

 uniformly encouraged in your pupils; yet with a distrust of my own 

 judgment, wherever it came into collision \*ith YQ^fl^ 



That you may long be spared to be the ornam^B iBbur University, 

 and the honour of your City, is the earnest wish ^^ 



Dear Sir, 



Your obliged Pupil, 



WILLIAM B. CARPENTER. 

 Ripky, Surrey, Sept. 20 ; 1844. 



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