An Attempt to Investigate the Seat of Animal Life

by Henry Curtis

TO
WILLIAM FOUSHEE, SENIOR M. D.
AND TO
JNO. H. FOUSHEE, M. D.
OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

GENTLEMEN,

Actuated by the finest feelings of gratitude, I embrace with peculiar pleasure this opportunity of acknowledging and making, in some degree, public, my many obligations to you, who, with parental care, directed the gradual unfoldings of my mind through the morning of youth, and kindly afforded those means of improvement, calculated to raise industry to eminence, and crown it with success.

Should this first effort evince an advancement in the knowledge of the profession to which I devote my life. Accept its dedication as a tribute of grateful respect, from

Your much obliged,

H. CURTIS.

To the zealous and able friends of science,
JNO. B. DAVIDGE, A. M. M. D. and
JAMES COCKE, M. D.
Joint Professors of Anatomy, Surgery, &c.
In the College of Medicine of Maryland;
These pages are inscribed as a
Sincere testimony of
Respect and esteem,
By the
AUTHOR.

The necessity of publication, will apologize, to my friends, for the form this essay has taken.