The Domestic Medicine having been honoured, on its first appearance, with the patronage of your learned and worthy Predecessor, the late Sir John Pringle, I beg leave, in a more improved state, to dedicate it to you, as a small, but sincere, testimony of that veneration and esteem with which I have long beheld the Man who, born to ease and affluence, had resolution to encounter the dangers of unknown seas and distant climes, in pursuit of useful Science; and whose constant object has been to render that Science subservient to the happiness and civilization of Society,

I have the honour to be, with great respect,