OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY. WITH THEIR CHIEF APPLICATIONS TO PATHOLOGY, HYGIÈNE, ESPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS. WITH OVER ONE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS. BY WILLIAM B. CARPENTER, M.D., LECTURER ON PHYSIOLOGY IN THE BRISTOL MEDICAL SCHOOL, &c. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS BY THE AUTHOR, AND NOTES AND ADDITIONS, BY MEREDITH CLYMER, M. D., LECTURER ON THE INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE, PHYSICIAN TO THE PHILADELPHIA HOSPITAL, PHILADELPHIA: LEA & BLANCHARD. 1843. In the office of the Clerk of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. T. K. & P. G. COLLINS, Printers. ΤΟ WILLIAM PULTENEY ALISON, M. D., F. R. S. E., &c. &c. PROFESSOR OF THE INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE IN 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-eminent 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 with yours. That you may long be spared to be the ornament of your University, and the honour of your City, is the earnest wish of, Dear Sir, Your obliged Pupil, Bristol, Feb. 1, 1842. WILLIAM B. CARPENTER. |