INTRODUCTION. 



I NOW present to the public my Treatise on ANATOMY, PHY- 

 SIOLOGY, and HEALTH, designed both for the student of medicine 

 as well as the general reader. I at first intended to issue a large 

 work and plates, to correspond with my midwifery ; but upon more 

 mature reflection, I deemed it best to publish it in the present form 

 and size, with the accompanying figures. The price of a work as 

 large and costly as I at first contemplated, would have restricted the 

 sale considerably, in placing it beyond the reach of those in limited 

 circumstances. These objections, together with the great labor and 

 cost of the text and engravings, have induced me thus to issue it ; 

 and I think it preferable, taking everything into consideration. I 

 have labored to be brief, perspicuous, and comprehensive, and, at 

 the same time, to give clear and full illustrations, both by the text 

 and numerous plates ; without which every work of the kind is very 

 imperfect and poorly calculated to impart instruction. 



The reader will perceive that I have adapted this treatise to the 

 capacity of the popular reader, as well as the student of medicine. 

 We must depend for patronage for a work of this kind upon all 

 classes of the community ; and indeed the success of our reformatory 

 course in medicine, I apprehend, depends much upon disseminating 

 among them correct views in Physiology, which shows obviously 

 the utility and importance of such a work. All classes are daily 

 suffering from want of more information on those laws which govern 



