SEAT OF ANIMAL LIFE.

SUBMITTED TO THE EXAMINATION OF

CHARLES ALEXANDER WARFIELD, M. D.

The President, and Medical Faculty

OF THE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE OF MARYLAND.

FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHYSIC.

By Henry Curtis ... of Virginia,

VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE BALTIMORE MEDICAL SOCIETY.

... The spacious earth, And all the teeming regions of the world, Hold not an object to the curious flight Of knowledge, half so tempting, or so fair, As man to man. AKENSIDE.

Baltimore: PRINTED BY BENJAMIN EDES. Corner of South and Market-Streets. 1812.

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.