$6 MEMOIRS OF 



medical effe&s ; a vaft and complicated 

 fcheme of difquiiition, incalculably im- 

 portant to the health and comforts of 

 mankind, fo far as they relate to objecls 

 merely terreftr\al\ throwing novel, ufeful, 

 and beautiful light on the fecrets of phy- 

 fiology, botanical, chemical, and aero- 

 logical. 



The world may coniider the publication 

 of the Zoonomia as a new era of pathologic 

 fcience ; the fource of important advance 

 in the power of difclofmg, abating, and 

 expelling difeafe. Every young profeflbr 

 of medicine, if God has given him com- 

 prehenfion, affiduity, and energy, fhould 

 devote his nights and days to ftudying this 

 great work. It will teach him more than 

 the pages of Galen and Hippocrates ; than 

 fchools and univerfities know to impart. 

 Thofe inftruclions which, through the 

 channel of it's pages, flow to the world, 

 enabled Dr. Robert Darwin of Shrewsbury 



to 



