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DAVID HOSACK, M. D. 



F. L. S. LONDON ; 



Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic and Clinical 

 Medicine in the University of New-York; Fellow of the 

 American Philosophical Society, and of the College of 

 Physicians at Philadelphia ; Member of the Literary and 

 Philosophical Society of Preston ; Corresponding Member 

 of the Medical Society of London, &c. &c. 



Sir, 



I DEDICATE to you this the first fruits of a medi- 

 cal education commenced under your care. If I were 

 indebted to you for none other than the ordinary atten- 

 tions of a preceptor toward his pupil, the obligations 

 thence incurred would not be very great, nor the debt 

 of gratitude perhaps difficult to be discharged. But I 

 feel the case to be very different. Ever since I placed 

 myself under your direction, I have witnessed in you the 

 most anxious endeavours to facilitate my progress in my 

 professional studies, and it would be unjust to pass over 

 in silence the many advantages I have enjoyed in your 

 private medical school. For tiiese, and for other fa- 

 vours, I feel myself greatly indebted, and take the 

 liberty thus publicly to express to you my grateful 

 acknowledgments. 



A. ANDERSON. 



