JAMES COWLES PRICHARD, M.D. F.R.S. M.R.I.A.

CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRANCE,

HONORARY Fellow of kinG'S AND QUEEN'S COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN IRELAND,
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE OF PARIS.

THIRD EDITION.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

SHERWOOD, GILBERT, AND PIPER,

PATERNOSTER ROW;

AND J. AND A. ARCH,

CORNHILL.

1836.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY JOSEPH RICKERBY

SHERBOURN LANE.

TO THE

VENERABLE AND UNIVERSALLY CELEBRATED

PROFESSOR BLUMENBACH,

OF THE

UNIVERSITY OF GOETTINGEN,

BY WHOM THE DEPARTMENT OF KNOWLEDGE TO THE CULTIVATION OF WHICH IT

IS DEVOTED WAS FIRST EXPLORED,

This Work is Bedicated,

BY HIS OBLIGED FRIEND AND FAITHFUL SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.