BY CHRISTOPHER CAUSTICK,, of FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLECE OF PHYSICIANS, AEER- SECOND AMERICAN EDITION, REVISED, CORRECTED, AND MUCH ENLARGED PHILADELPHIA: FROM THE LORENZO PRESS OF E. BRONSON. 1806. DAM PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, NOX AND DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO WIT: BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the eleventh day of (L. S.) June, in the thirtieth year of the independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1806, Thomas Green Fessenden, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit: "The Modern Philosopher, or Terrible Tractoration! in four cantos, most respectfully addressed to the royal college of physicians, London. By Christopher Caustick, M. D. A.S.S. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Aberdeen, and honorary member of no less than nineteen very learned societies. Second American edition, revised, corrected, and much enlarged by the author." In conformity to the act of the congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled "An act supplementary to an act, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching histotical and other prints." D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the district of Pennsylvania. PREFACE TO THE SECOND AMERICAN EDITION. IN the preface of the publisher of the first American edition of this work, some statements relative to its origin, together with a concise biographical sketch of its author, have been presented to the publick. That preface, however, having been written before my return from England, and without my knowledge, cannot be supposed to be perfectly correct in all its particulars; and though I highly appreciate the friendly motives which appear to have actuated the publisher in penning it, yet I hope he will pardon me if, instead of an advocate, I now appear in propria persona and explain a little more at large the topicks and events of which he has taken notice. Previous to my journey to England, for the purposes hereafter to be stated, my life had been checkered with but little variety; and I shall merely state such prominent events as may be necessary to account for my having made my literary debut in the uncommon character of an American author in London. |