Professor of Anatomy and Surgery to the College, Assistant Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's WITH SEVEN ENGRAVINGS. Salem: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY FOOTE AND BROWN. ᎢᎾ I. F. BLUMENBACH, PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GOTTINGEN, AULIC COUNSELLOR, FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF PARIS, &c. &c. &c. DEAR SIR! THE principal subject of the following pages has received its most numerous and successful illustrations from your sagacity, industry, and learning. Having freely availed myself of your labors,-although with that occasional dissent in matters of opinion, which I doubt not will be more agreeable to the liberality of so enlightened a Philosopher, than invariable servile adoption,--I think it a mere act of justice to dedicate this Work to you. I do so with the greater pleasure, because it affords me |