Tresented to the

benex Siterary by

Martyn Jone November, 1872.

INTRODUCTORY TO THE COURSE OF LECTURES ON THE INSTITUTES OF
MEDICINE AND MATERIA MEDICA, IN THE UNIVERSITY OF

THE CITY OF NEW YORK.

Delivered on the Evening of Nov. 2, 1848,

BY MARTYN PAINE, A. M., M. D.,

Professor of the Institutes of Medicine and Materia Medica in the University of New York
Member of the Royal Verein fur Heilkunde in Preussen; of the Medical
Society of Leipsic; of the Montreal Natural History Society,
and other Learned Associations.

"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life, and man became a living soul."-Genesis ii. 7.

"The dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who
gave it."--Eccl. xii. 7.

"A chemist will reduce Divinity to the maxims of his laboratory, explain morality by sal,
sulphur, and mercury, and allegorise the Scripture itself, and the Sacred mysteries thereof,
into the philosopher's stone."-Locke, On the Human Understanding.

"Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish."--Psalms,
xl. 20.

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