THE

HISTORY OF MEDICINE

COMPRISING A NARRATIVE OF

ITS PROGRESS FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT TIME

AND OF THE

DELUSIONS INCIDENTAL TO ITS ADVANCE FROM EMPIRICISM
TO THE DIGNITY OF A SCIENCE

BY

EDWARD MERYON, M.D. F.G.S.

Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of England

Late Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy at St. Thomas's Hospital, &c. &c,

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H131 M57 1861

TO

THE RIGHT HONORABLE

GRANVILLE GEORGE LEVESON GOWER

EARL GRANVILLE, K.G.

PRESIDENT OF HER MAJESTY'S MOST HONORABLE PRIVY COUNCIL,
CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, F.R.S.

ETC. ETC. ETC.

THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE INSCRIBED

AS A HOMAGE

TO THE TALENTS WHICH HAVE RAISED HIS LORDSHIP TO POSITIONS

OF HIGH TRUST IN THE STATE,

AND TO THE CHANCELLORSHIP OF ONE OF OUR UNIVERSITIES,

AND AS A TRIBUTE OF GRATITUDE

FOR THE FRIENDSHIP OF MANY YEARS WHICH HAS BEEN ACCORDED TO

HIS LORDSHIP'S FAITHFUL SERVANT

THE AUTHOR