The importance of being thoroughly acquainted with the laws which regulate the functions of the Organic Nervous System, the Blood, the Oxygen, and the Animal Nervous System, cannot be too forcibly inculcated. The practice of Medicine and Surgery, to command success and Win the admiration of mankind, must be placed on a thoroughly scientific foundation. It is an impera tive duty on every member of the Profession, Whether in a high or low position, to uphold the honor and dig nity of his profession, and contribute, as far as in him lies, to the advancement of the various branches of knowledge connected with it.

In treating of the subjects which come under discus sion in this volume, I candidly confess my incompetency to do them the justice their vast importance demands. I hope and believe, however, I have put forward in a sufficiently prominent manner my ideas about them in such a way as to attract the attention of persons pos sessed of greater talents and higher scientific attain ments. I have to plead as an apology for the style, the arrangement, and the imperfections of the work, that I was engaged as a general practitioner in Medicineand Surgery for nearly eighteen years before my atten tion was particularly directed to the subjects now con sidered and that during that period, as well as up to the present time, I have been engaged in an extensive and laborious practice, affording but little time for study or the cultivation of scientific acquirements.

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