OR,

SHORT EXPOSITIONS

OF THE MORE IMPORTANT DISEASES MENTIONED
IN THE SACRED WRITINGS.

PHYSICIAN

BY

THECA

THOMAS SHAPTER, M. D.

•BODI

TO THE EXETER DISPENSARY AND LYING-IN
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH, &c.

CHARITY,

LONDON:

LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMAN;
AND C. UPHAM, EXETER.

1834.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY MANNING AND SMITHSON,

LONDON HOUSE YARD.

ΤΟ

JOHN BLACKALL, ESQ. M. D.

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS,

SENIOR PHYSICIAN

TO THE

DEVON AND EXETER HOSPITAL,

LUNATIC ASYLUM, &c. &c.

THE FOLLOWING PAGES

ARE INSCRIBED,

AS A TESTIMONY OF RESPECT, AND ADMIRATION OF

THOSE HIGH TALENTS AND ACQUIREMENTS,

WHICH HAVE JUSTLY RAISED HIM TO

PROFESSIONAL PRE-EMINENCE IN

THE WEST OF ENGLAND,

AND

AS AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE MANY FAVORS

HE HAS CONFERRED ON HIS OBLIGED

AND GRATEFUL FRIEND,

THE AUTHOR.