CATALOGUE 
OS' 
BLANCHARD & LEA’S 
MEDICAL AND SURGICAL PUBLICATIONS. 
TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. 
In submitting the following catalogue of our publications in medicine and the 
collateral sciences, we beg to remark that no exertions are spared to render the issues 
of our press worthy a continuance of the confidence which they have thus far enjoyed, 
both as regards the high character of 'the works themselves, and in respect to every 
point of typographical accuracy, and mechanical and artistical execution. Gentlemen 
desirous of adding to their libraries from our list, can in almost all cases procure the 
works they wish from the nearest bookseller, who can readily order any which 
may not be on hand; and who, as well as ourselves, will be happy to answer any 
inquiries as to price, &c. 
Philadelphia, July, 1855. 
BLANCHARD & LEA. 
Awo MEDICAL PERIODICALS, FREE OF POSTAGE, 
FOB FITE OOLMRS PEE AMMFM. 
THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES, subject to 
postage, when not paid for in advance, - f5 00 
THE MEDICAL NEWS AND LIBRARY, invariably in advance, - - 100 
or, BOTH periodicals furnished, free op postage, for Five Dollars remitted 
in advance. 
THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES, 
Edited by ISAAC HAYS, M. D., 
is published Quarterly, on the first of January, April, July, and October. Each number contains 
at least two hundred and eighty large octavo pages, handsomely and appropriately illustrated, 
wherever necessary- It has now been issued regularly for more than thirty-five years, and it has 
been under the control of the present editor for more than a quarter of a century. Throughout 
this long period, it has maintained its position in the highest rank of medical periodicals both at home 
and abroad, and has received the cordial support of the fentire profession in this country. Its list of 
Collaborators will he found to contain a large number of the mbst distinguished names of the pro- 
fession in every section of the United States, rendering the department devoted to 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS 
full of varied and important matter, of great interest to all practitioners. 
As the aim ot the Journal, however, is to combine the advantages presented by all the different 
varieties of periodicals, in its 
will be found extended and impartial reviews of all important new works, presenting subjects of 
novelty and interest, together with very numerous 
REVIEW DEPARTMENT 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES, 
including nearly all the medical publications of the day, both in this country and Great Britain, with 
a choice selection of the more important continental works. This is followed by the 2 
BLANCHARD & LEA’S MEDICAL 
being a very full and complete abstract, methodically arranged, of the 
QUARTERLY SUMMARY, 
IMPROVEMENTS AND DISCOVERIES IN THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. 
This department of the Journal, so important to the practising physician, is the object of especial 
care on the part of the editor. It is classified and arranged under different heads, thus facilitating 
the researches of the reader in pursuit of particular subjects, and will be found to present a very 
full and accurate digest of all observations, discoveries, and inventions recorded in every branch of 
medical science. The very extensive arrangements of the publishers are such as to afford to the 
editor complete materials for this purpose, as he not only regularly receives 
ALL THU AMERICAN MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC PERIODICALS, 
but also twenty or thirty of the more important Journals issued in Great Britain and on the Conti- 
nent, thus enabling him to present in a convenient compass a thorough and complete abstract of 
everything interesting or important to the physician occurring in any part of the civilized world. 
An evidence of the success which has attended these efforts may be found in the constant and 
steady increase in the subscription list, which renders it advisable' for gentlemen desiring the 
Journal, to make known their wishes at an early day, in order to secure a year’s set with certainty, 
the publishers having frequently been unable to supply copies when ordered late in the year. To 
their old subscribers, many of whom have been on their list for twenty or thirty years, the publish- 
ers teel that no promises are necessary; but those who may desire for the first time to subscribe, 
can rest assured that no exertion will be spared to maintain the Journal in the high position which 
it has occupied for so long a period. 
By reference to the terms it will be seen that, in addition to this large amount of valuable and 
practical information on every branch of medical science, the subscriber, by paying in advance, 
becomes entitled, without further charge, to 
THE MEDICAL NEWS AND LIBRARY, 
a monthly periodical of thirty-two large octavo pages. Its “News Department” presents the 
current information of the day, while the “ Library Department” is devoted to presenting stand- 
ard works on various branches of medicine. Within a few years, subscribers have thus received, 
without expense, the following works which have passed through its columns : 
WATSON’S LECTURES ON THE PRACTICE OF PHYSIC. 
BRODIE’S CLINICAL LECTURES ON SURGERY. 
TODD AND BOWMAN’S PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF MAN. 
724 pages, with numerous wood-cuts, being all that has yet appeared in England. 
WEST’S LECTURES ON THE DISEASES OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD. 
MALGAIGNE’S OPERATIVE SURGERY, with wood-cuts. 
SIMON’S LECTURES ON GENERAL PATHOLOGY. 
BENNETT ON PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS, with wood-cuts, and 
WEST ON ULCERATION OF THE OS UTERI. 
BROWN ON THE SURGICAL DISEASES OF FEMALES. 
While the year 1855, presents 
The diseases treated in this volume have hitherto not received from writers of systematic 
works the attention to which their importance entitles them. In treatises on female diseases they 
have been but little noticed, as belonging more properly to the surgeon, while our surgical text-books 
have in like manner referred them to the writer on midwifery and female affections. In supplying 
this palpable vacancy in medical literature, Mr. Brown has brought to his subject the result of 
many years of observation and experience, and his labors will prove of much value to all practi- 
tioners. The publishers therefore flatter themselves that in securing this volume for the “ Library* 
Department” of the “ Medical News” they will meet the wishes of their numerous subscri- 
bers, who will thus receive this highly important work free of all expense. 
HANDSOMELY ILLUSTRATED ON WOOD. 
It will thus be seen that for the small sum of FIVE DOLLARS, paid in advance, the subscribed 
will obtain a Quarterly and a Monthly periodical, 
EMBRACING ABOUT FIFTEEN HUNDRED LARGE OCTAVO PAGES, 
mailed to any part of the United States, free of postage. 
These very favorable terms are now presented by the publishers with the view of removing all 
difficulties and objections to a full and extended circulation of the Medical Journal to the office of 
every member of the profession throughout the United Slates. The rapid extension of mail facili- 
ties, will now place the numbers before subscribers with a certainty and dispatch not heretofore 
attainable; while by the system now proposed, every subscriber throughout the Union is placed 
upon an equal footing, at ihe very reasonable price of Five Dollars for two periodicals, without 
furl her expense. 
Those subscribers who do not pay in advance will bear in mind that their subscription of Five 
Dollars will entitle them to the Journal only, without the News, and that they will be at the expense 
of their own postage on the receipt of each number. The advantage of a remittance wThen order- 
ing the Journal will thus be apparent. 
As the Medical News and Library is in no case sent without advance payment, its subscribers 
will always receive it free of postage. 
It should also be borne in mind that the publishers wifi now take the risk of remittances by mail, 
when the letter inclosing the amount is registered under the new Postage Act, going into effect 
July 1, 1855. 
Address BLANCHARD & LEA, Philadelphia. AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS. 
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ALLEN (J. MJ, M. D., 
THE PRACTICAL ANATOMIST; or, The Student’s Guide iu the Dissecting- 
E.OOM. With numerous illustrations. In one handsome royal 12mo. volume. (In Press.) 
In the arrangement of this work the author has endeavored to present a complete and thorough 
course of dissections in a clearer and more available form for practical use in the dissecting-room, 
than lias as yet been accomplished. His long experience as a teacher of anatomy has given him a 
familiarity with the wants of students, and has shown him the best modes of obviating or relieving 
the difficulties which present themselves in the progress of dissection. As adapted to the course 
pursued in our colleges, and containing ample practical directions and instructions, in addition to 
the anatomical details presented, it possesses claims to the immediate attention of teachers and 
students. It will appear in time for the Fall session of the present year. 
Professor of Anatomy in the Pennsylvania Medical College, &c. 
OF MEDICAL SCIENCE, containing Anatomy, Physiology, Surgery, Midwifery, 
Chemistry, Materia Medica, Therapeutics, and Practice of Medicine. By John Neill, M. D., 
and F. G. Smith, M. D. Second and enlarged edition, one thick volume royal 12mo. of over 
1000 pages, with 350 illustrations. |3P See Neill. 
ANALYTICAL COMPENDIUM 
ABEL (F. A.), F. C. S. 
Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. 
and 
C. L. BLOXAM, 
Formerly First Assistant at the Royal College of Chemistry. 
HANDBOOK OF CHEMISTRY, Theoretical, Practical, and Technical, with a 
Recommendatory Preface by Dr. Hofmann. In one large octavo volume of 662 pages, with 
illustrations. (Just Issued.) 
It must be understood that this is a work fitted for 
the earnest student, who resolves to pursue for him- 
self a steady search into the chemical mysteries of 
creation. For such a student the ‘ Handbook’ will 
prove an excellent guide, since he will find in it, 
not merely the approved modes of analytical investi- 
gation, but most descriptions of the apparatus ne- 
cessary, with such manipulatory details as rendered 
Faraday’s ‘ Chemical Manipulations’ so valuable at 
the time of its publication. Beyond this, the im- 
portance of the work is increased by the introduc- 
tion of much of the technical chemistry of the manu- 
factory.”—Dr. Hofmann's Preface. 
ASH WELL (SAMUEL), M. D., 
Obstetric Physician and Lecturer to Guy’s Hospital, London. 
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE DISEASES PECULIAR TO WOMEN. 
Illustrated by Cases derived from Hospital and Private Practice. Third American, from the Third 
and revised London edition. In one octavo volume, ol 528 pages. (Now Ready.) 
The most useful practical work on the subject in 
the English language. Boston Med. and Surg. 
Journal. 
The most able, and certainly the most standard 
and practical, work on female diseases that we have 
yet seen.—Medico-Chirurgical Review. 
We commend it to our readers as the best practi- 
tical treatise on the subject which has yet appeared. 
—London Lancet. 
The young practitioner will find it invaluable, 
while those who have had most experience will yet 
find something to learn, and much to commend, in a 
book which shows so much patient observation, 
practical skill, and sound sense.—British and Fo- 
reign Med. Review. 
With no work are we acquainted, in which the 
pleasant and the useful are more happily blended. It 
combines the greatest elegance of style with the 
most sound and valuable practical information. 
We feel justified in recommending it, in unqualified 
terms, to our readers, as a book from which they 
can scarcely fail to derive both pleasure and im- 
provement. It is truly a model for medical compo- 
sitions.—Southern Med. and Surg. Journal. 
ARNOTT (NEILL), M.D. 
ELEMENTS OF PHYSICS; or Natural Philosophy, General and Medical. 
Written for universal use, in plain or non-technical language. A new edition, by Isaac Hays, 
M. D. Complete in one octavo volume, of 484 pages, with about two hundred illustrations. 
A PRACTICAL ,TREATISE ON INFLAMMATION OF THE UTERUS, 
ITS CERVIX AND APPENDAGES, and on its connection With Uterine Disease. Fourth 
American, from the third and revised London edition. In one neat octavo volume, of 430 pages, 
with wood-cuts. Just Issued.) 
BENNETT (HENRY), M. D. 
This edition will be found materially improved over its predecessors, the author having carefully 
revised it, and made considerable additions, amounting to about seventy-five pages. 
This edition has been carefully revised and altered, 
and various additions have been made, which render 
it more complete, and, if possible, more worthy of 
the high appreciation in which it is held by the 
medical profession throughout the world. A copy 
should be in the possession of every physician.— 
Charleston Med. Journal and Review. 
We are firmly of opinion that in proportion as a 
knowledge of uterine diseases becomes more appre- 
ciated, this work will be proportionably established 
as a. text-book in the profession.—The Lancet. 
When, a few years back, the first edition of the 
present work was published, the subject was one al- 
most entirely unknown to the obstetrical celebrities 
of the day : and even now we have reason to know 
that the bulk of the profession are not fully alive to 
the importance and frequency of the disease of which 
it takes cognizance. The present edition is so much 
enlarged, altered, and improved, that it can scarcely 
be considered the same work.—Dr. Ranking's Ab- 
stract. 4 
BLANCHARD & LEA’S MEDICAL 
BROWN (ISAAC BAKER), 
Surgeon-Accoucheur to St. Mary’s Hospital, &c. 
ON SOME DISEASES OF WOMEN ADMITTING OP SURGICAL TREAT- 
MENT. With handsome illustrations. Onevol.Svo. (At Press.) 
Publishing in the “Medical News and Library” for 1855. See preceding page. 
Mr. Brown has earned for himself a high reputa- 
tion in the operative treatment of sundry diseases 
and injuries to which females are peculiarly subject. 
We can truly say of his work that it is an important 
addition to obstetrical literature. The operative 
suggestions and contrivances which Mr. Brown dc.- 
scribes, exhibit much practical sagacity and skill, 
and merit the careful attention of every surgeon- 
accoucheur.—Association Journal. 
We have no hesitation in recommending this book 
to the careful attention of all surgeons who make 
female complaints a part of their study and practice. 
—Dublin Quarterly Journal. 
BENNETT (J. HUGHES), M.D., F. R.S, E., 
Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University of Edinburgh, &c. 
THE PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT OP PULMONARY TUBERCU- 
LOSIS, and on the Local Medication of Pharyngeal and Laryngeal Diseases frequently mistaken 
for or associated with, Phthisis. In one handsome octavo volume, with beautiful wood-cuts, 
pp. 130. (Lately Issued.) 
BILLING (ARCHIBALD), M. D. 
THE PRINCIPLES OP MEDICINE. Second American, from the Fifth and 
Improved London edition. In one handsome octavo volume, extra cloth, 250 pages. 
ELAKiSTON (PEYTON), M. D., F. R. S., &c. 
PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON CERTAIN DISEASES OP THE 
CHEST, and on the Principles of Auscultation. In one volume, Bvo., pp. 384. 
ON DISORDERS OF THE CEREBRAL CIRCULATION, and on the Con- 
nection between the Affections of the Brain and Diseases of the Heart. In one Bvo. vol., with 
colored plates, pp. 210. 
BURROWS (GEORGE), M. D. 
BUDD (GEORGE), M. D., F. R. S,, 
Professor of Medicine in King’s College, London. 
ON DISEASES OP THE LIVER, Second American, from the second and 
enlarged London edition. In one very handsome octavo volume, with four beautifully colored 
plates, and numerous wood-cuts. pp. 468. New edition. (Lately Issued.) 
The full digest we have given of the new matter 
introduced into the present volume, is evidence of 
the value we place on it. The fact that the profes- 
sion has required a second edition of a monograph 
such as that before us, bears honorable testimony 
to its usefulness. For many years, Dr. Budd’s 
work must be the authority of the great mass of 
British practitioners on the hepatic diseases ; and it 
is satisfactory that the subject has been taken up by 
so able and experienced a physician.—British and 
Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review. 
BUSHNAN (J. S.), M. D. 
THE PHYSIOLOGY OF ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE LIFE; a Popular 
Treatise on the Functions and Phenomena of Organic Life. To which is prefixed a Brief Expo- 
sition of the great departments of Human Knowledge. In one handsome royal 12mo. volume, 
with over one hundred illustrations, pp. 234. 
Though cast in a popular form and manner, this work is the production of a man of science, and 
presents its subject in its latest development, based on truly scientific and accurate principles. 
It may therefore be consulted with interest by those who wish to obtain in a concise form, and at 
a very low price, a resume of the present state of animal and vegetable physiology. 
BIRD (GOLDING), A. MM. D., &.c. 
URINARY DEPOSITS: THEIR DIAGNOSIS, PATHOLOGY, AND 
THERAPEUTICAL INDICATIONS. A new and enlarged American, from the last improved 
London edition. With over sixty illustrations. In one royal 12mo. volume, extra cloth, pp. 372. 
The new edition of Dr. Bird’s work, though not 
increased in size, has been greatly modified, and 
much of it rewritten. It now presents, in a com- 
pendious form, the gist of all that is known and re- 
liable in this department. From its terse style and 
convenient size, it is particularly applicable to the 
student, to whom we, cordially commend it.—The 
Medical Examiner. 
suits of those microscopical and chemical researches 
regarding the physiology and pathology of the uri- 
nary secretion, which have contributed so much to 
the increase of our diagnostic powers, and to the 
extension and satisfactory employment of our thera- 
peutic resources. In the preparation of this new 
edition of his work, it is obvious that Dr. Golding 
Bird has spared no pains to render it a faithful repre- 
sentation of the present state of scientific knowledge 
on thesubject it embraces.— The British and Foreign 
Medico-ChirurgiceU Review. 
It can scarcely be necessary for us to say anything 
of the merits of this well-known Treatise, which so 
admirably brings into practical application the re- 
ELEMENTS OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY; being an Experimental Intro- 
duction to the Physical Sciences. Illustrated wish nearly four hundred wood-cuts. From the 
third London edition. In one neat volume, royal 12mo. pp. 402. 
THE SAME AUTHOR, AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS. 
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BARTLETT (ELISHA), M. D., 
Professor of Materia Medica and Medical Jurisprudence in the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, New York. 
THE HISTORY, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT OF THE FEVERS 
OF THE UNITED STATES. Third edition, revised and improved. In one octavo volume, 
of six hundred pages, beautifully printed, and strongly bound. 
The masterly and elegant treatise, by Dr. Bartlett 
is invaluable to the American student and practi- 
tioner.—Dr. Holmes’’s Report to the Nat. Med. Asso- 
elation. 
Of the value and importance of such a work, it is 
needless here to speak; the profession of the United 
States owe much to the author for the very able 
volume which he has presented to them, and for the 
careful and judicious manner in which he has exe- 
cuted his task. No one volume with which we are 
acquainted contains so complete a history of our 
fevers as this. To Dr. Bartlett we owe our best 
thanks for the very able volume he has given us, as 
embodying certainly the most complete, methodical, 
and satisfactory account of our fevers anywhere to 
be met with.— The Charleston Med. Journal and 
Review. 
We regard it, from the examination we have made 
of it, the best work on fevers extant in our language, 
and as such cordially recommend it to the medical 
public.—St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal. 
Take it altogether, it is the most complete history 
of oar fevers which has yet been published, and 
every practitioner should avail himself of its con- 
tents.—The Western Lancet. 
Formerly Physician to the Baltimore Almshouse Infirmary, &c 
BUCKLER (T. H.), M, D., 
ON THE ETIOLOGY, PATHOLOGY, AND TREATMENT OF FIBRO- 
BRONCHITIS AND RHEUMATIC PNEUMONIA. In one handsome octavo volume, extra 
cloth, pp. 150. 
PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF MEDICAL CHEMISTRY. In one neat 
volume, royal 12m0., with numerous illustrations, pp. 288. 
BOWMAN (JOHN E.), M.D. 
INTRODUCTION TO PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY, INCLUDING ANA- 
LYSIS. With numerous illustrations. In one neat volume, royal 12mo. pp. 350. 
THE SAME AUTHOR. 
BARLOW (GEORGE H.), M.D, 
A MANUAL OF THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. 
In one octavo volume. (Preparing.) 
BEALE (LIONEL JOHN), M. R. C. S., &c. 
THE LAWS OF HEALTH IN RELATION TO MIND AND BODY. 
A Series of Letters from an old Practitioner to a Patient. In one handsome volume, royal 12m0., 
extra cloth, pp. 296. 
BLOOD AND URINE (MANUALS ON) 
BY JOHN WILLIAM GRIFFITH, G. OWEN REESE, AND ALFRED 
MARKWICK. One thick volume, royal 12m0., extra cloth, with plates, pp. 460. 
BRODIE (SIR BENJAMIN C.), M, D., &c. 
CLINICAL LECTURES ON SURGERY. 1 vol. Bvo., cloth. 850 pp. 
A TREATISE ON THE DISEASES OF FEMALES, and on the Special 
Hygiene of their Sex. Translated, with many Notes and Additions, by C. D. Meigs, M. D. 
Second edition, revised and improved. In one large volume, octavo, with numerous wood-cuts, 
pp. 720. 
COLOMBAT DE L’ISERE. 
The treatise of M. Colombat is a learned and la- 
borious commentary on these diseases, indicating 
very considerable research, great accuracy of judg- 
ment, and no inconsiderable personal experience. 
With the copious notes and additions of its experi- 
enced and very erudite translator and editor, i)r. 
Meigs, it presents, probably, one of the most com- 
plete and comprehensive works on the subject we 
possess.—American Med. Journal. 
CURLING (T. B.), F. R.S., 
Surgeon to the .London Hospital, &c. 
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THE TESTIS, SPERBIA- 
TIC CORD, AND SCROTUM. Second American, from the second and enlarged English edi- 
tion. In one handsome octavo volume, with numerous illustrations. [At Press.) 
The additions of the author will be found to bring this work on a level with the improvements of 
the day, and to maintain its reputation as the standard practical treatise on the subject. 
COPLAND (JAMES), M. D., F. R. S., &c. 
OF THE CAUSES, NATURE, AND TREATMENT OF PALSY AND 
APOPLEXY, and of the Forms, Seats, Complications, and Morbid Relations ol Paralytic and 
Apoplectic Diseases. In one volume, royal 12m0., extra cloth, pp. 326. 6 
BLANCHARD & LEA’S MEDICAL 
CARPENTER (WILLIAM B.), M. D., F. R. 3., &c., 
Examiner in Physiology and Comparative Anatomy in the University of London. 
PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY; with their chief applications to 
Psychology, Pathology, Therapeutics, Hygiene, and Forensic Medicine. A new American, from 
the last and revised London edition. With about three hundred illustrations. Edited, with addi- 
tions, by Francis Gurney Smith, M. D., Professor of the Institutes of Medicine in the Pennsyl- 
vania Medical College, &c. In one very large and beautiful octavo volume, of about one thousand 
large pages, handsomely printed and strongly bound in leather, with raised bands. {Lately Issued.) 
The most complete work on the science in our 
language.—Am. Med. Journal. 
The best text-book in the language on this ex- 
tensive subject.—London Med. Times. 
The. most complete exposition of physiology which 
any language can at present give.— Brit, and Tor. 
Med.-Chirurg. Review. 
A complete cyclopaedia of this branch of science. 
—N. Y. Med. Times. 
We have thus adverted to some of the leading 
“additions and alterations,” which have been in- 
troduced by the author into this edition of his phy- 
siology. These will be found, however, very far to 
exceed the ordinary limits of a new edition, “ the 
old materials having been incorporated with the 
new, rather than the new with the old.” It now 
certainly presents the most complete treatise on the 
subject within the reach of the American reader; 
and while, for availability as a text-book, we may 
perhaps regret its growth in bulk, we are sure that 
the student, of physiology will feel the impossibility 
of presenting a thorough digest of the facts of the 
science within a more limited compass.—Medical 
Examiner. 
The standard of authority on physiological sub- 
jects. * * * In the present edition, to particularize 
the alterations and additions which ha ve been made, 
would require a review of the whole work, since 
scarcely a subject has not been revised and altered, 
■added to, or entirely remodelled to adapt it to the 
present state of the science.—Charleston Med. Journ. 
Any reader who desires a treatise on physiology 
may feel himself entirely safe in ordering this 
Western Med. and Surg. Journal. 
From this hasty and imperfect allusion it will be 
seen by our readers that the alterations and addi- 
tions to this edition render it almost a new work— 
and we can assure our readers that it is one of the 
best summaries of the existing facts of physiological 
science within the reach of the English student and 
physician.—N. Y. Journal of Medicine. 
The greatest, the most reliable, and the best book 
on the subject which we know of in the English 
language.—Stethoscope. 
The profession of this country, and perhaps also 
of Europe, have anxiously and for some time awaited 
the announcement of this new edition of Carpenter’s 
Human Physiology. His former editions have for 
many years been almost the only text-book on Phy- 
siology in all our medical schools, and its circula- 
tion among the profession has been unsurpassed by 
any work in any department of medical science. 
It is quite unnecessary for us to speak of this 
work as its merits would justify. The mere an- 
nouncement of its appearance will afford the highest 
pleasure to every student of Physiology, while its 
perusal will be of infinite service in advancing 
physiological science.—Ohio Med. and Surg. Journ. 
The most complete work now extant in our lan- 
guage.—N. O. Med. Register. 
The changes are too numerous to admit of an ex- 
tended notice in this place. At every point where 
the recent diligent labors of organic chemists and 
rnicrographers have furnished interesting and valu- 
able facts, they have been appropriated, and no pains 
have been spared, in so incorporating and arranging 
them that the work may constitute one harmonious 
system.—Southern Med. and, Surg. Journal. 
PRINCIPLES OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY. New American, from 
Ihe Fourth and Revised London edition. In one large and handsome octavo volume, with over 
three hundred beautiful illustrations, pp. 752. 
The delay which has existed in the appearance of this work Has been caused by the very thorough 
revision and remodelling which it has undergone at the hands of the author, and the large number 
of new illustrations which have been prepared for it. It will, therefore, be found almost a new 
work, and fully up to the. day in every department of the subject, rendering it a reliable text-book 
for all students engaged in this branch of science. Every effort has been made to render its typo- 
graphical finish and mechanical execution worthy of its exalted reputation, and creditable to the 
mechanical arts of this country. 
THE SAME author. (Now Ready.) 
This book should not only be read but thoroughly 
studied by every member of the profession. None 
are too wise or old, to be benefited thereby. But 
especially to the younger class would we cordially 
commend it as best fitted of any work in the English 
language to qualify them for the reception and com- 
prehension of those truths which are daily being de- 
veloped in physiology.—Medical Counsellor. 
Without pretending to it, it is an Encyclopedia of 
the subject, accurate and complete in all respects— 
a truthful reflection of the advanced state at which 
the science has now arrived.—Dublin Quarterly 
Journal of Medical Science. 
A truly magnificent work—in itself a perfect phy- 
siological study.—Ranking's Abstract. 
This work stands without its fellow. It is one 
few men in Europe could have undertaken; it is one 
no man, we believe, could have brought to so suc- 
cessful an issue as Dr. Carpenter. It required for 
its production a physiologist at once deeply read in 
the labors of others, capable of taking a general, 
critical, and unprejudiced view of those labors, and 
of combining the varied, heterogeneous materials at 
his disposal, so as to form an harmonious whole. 
We feel that this abstract can give the reader a very 
imperfect idea of the fulness of this work, and no 
idea of its unity, of the admirable manner in which 
material has been brought, from the most various 
sources, to conduce to its completeness, of the lucid- 
ity of the reasoning it contains, or of the clearness 
of language in which the whole is clothed. Not the 
profession only, but the scientific world at large, 
must feel deeply indebted to Dr. Carpenter for this 
great work. It must, indeed, add largely even to 
his high reputation.—Medical Times. 
THE SAME author. {Preparing.) 
PRINCIPLES OF GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY, INCLUDING ORGANIC 
CHEMISTRY AND HISTOLOGY. With a General Sketch of the Vegetable and Animal 
Kingdom. In one large and very handsome octavo volume, with several hundred illustrations. 
The subject of general physiology having been omitted in the last edition of the author’s “ Com- 
parative Physiology,” he has undertaken to prepare a volume which shall present it more tho- 
roughly and fully than has yet been attempted, and which may be regarded as an introduction to 
his other works. AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS. 
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CARPENTER (WILLIAM B.), M. D., F. R. S., 
ELEMENTS (OR MANUAL) OF PHYSIOLOGY, INCLUDING PHYSIO- 
LOGICAL ANATOMY. Second American, from a new and revised London edition. With 
one hundred and ninety illustrations. In one very handsome octavo volume, pp. 566. 
Examiner in Physiology and Comparative Anatomy in the University of London. 
In publishing the first edition of this work, its title was altered from that of the London volume, 
by the substitution of the word “ Elements” for that of “ Manual,” and with the author’s sanction 
the title of “ Elements” is still retained as being more expressive of the scope of the treatise. 
To say that it is the best manual of Physiology 
now before the public, would not do sufficient justice 
to the author.—Buffalo Medical Journal. 
The best and most complete exposd of modern 
Physiology, in one volume, extant in the English 
language.—St. Louis Medical Journal. 
In his former works it would seem that he had 
exhausted the subjectof Physiology. In the present, 
he gives the essence, as it were, of the whole.—N. Y. 
Journal of Medicine. 
With such an aid in his hand, there is no excuse 
for the ignorance often displayed respecting the sub- 
jects of which it treats. From its unpretending di- 
mensions, it may not be so esteemed by those anxious 
to make a parade of their erudition; but whoever 
masters its contents will have reason to be proud of 
his physiological acquirements. The illustrations 
are well selected and finely executed.—Dublin Med. 
Press. 
Those who have occasion for an elementary trea- 
tise on Physiology, cannot do better than to possess 
themselves of the manual of Dr. Carpenter.—Medical 
Examiner. 
THE MICROSCOPE AND ITS REVELATIONS. In one handsome volume, 
with several hundred beautiful illustrations. 
the same author.. (Preparing.) 
Various literary engagements have delayed the author’s progress with this long expected work. 
It is now, however, in an advanced stale of preparation, and may be expected in a few months. 
The importance which the microscope has assumed within the last few years, both as a guide to 
the practising physician who wishes to avail himself of the progress of his science, and as an indis- 
pensable assistant to the physiological and pathological observer, has caused the want to be severely 
felt of a volume which should serve as a guide to the learner and a book of reference to the more 
advanced student. This want Dr. Carpenter has endeavored to supply in the present volume. His 
great practical familiarity with the instrument and all its uses, and his acknowledged ability as a 
teacher, are a sufficient guarantee that the work will prove in every way admirably adapted to its 
purpose, and superior to any as yet presented to the scientific world. 
A PRIZE ESSAY ON THE USE OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS IN HEALTH 
AND DISEASE. New edition, with a Preface by D. F. Condie, M. D., and explanations of 
scientific words. In one neat 12mo. volume, pp. 178. (Just Issued.) 
THE SAME AUTHOR. 
CH ELI US (J. M„), M. D., 
Professor of Surgery in the University of Heidelberg, &c 
A SYSTEM OF SURGERY. Translated from the German, and accompanied 
with additional Notes and References, by John F. South. Complete in three very large octavo 
volumes, of nearly 2200 pages, strongly bound, with raised bands and double titles. 
We do not hesitate to pronounce it the best and 
most comprehensive system of modern surgery with 
which we are acquainted.—Medico-Chirurgical Be- 
view 
' r „ . . ~ . . . . , „ .. . 
The fullest and ablest digest extant of all that re- 
lates to the present advanced state of surgical pa- 
thology.—American Medical Journal. 
The most learned and complete systematic treatise 
now extant—Edinburgh Medical Journal. 
CLYMER (MEREDITH), M. D., &c, 
FEVERS; THEIR DIAGNOSIS, PATHOLOGY, AND TREATMENT. 
Prepared and Edited, with large Additions, from the Essays on Fever in Tweedie’s Library of 
Practical Medicine. In one octavo volume, of 600 pages. 
A DISPENSATORY; or, Commentary on the Pharmacopoeias of Great Britain 
and the United States; comprising the Natural History, Description, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Ac- 
tions, Uses, and Doses of the Articles of the Materia Medica. Second edition, revised and im- 
proved, with a Supplement containing the most important New Remedies. With cppious Addi- 
tions, and two hundred and thirteen large wood-engravings. By R. Eglesfki.d Griffith, M. D. 
In one very large and handsome octavo volume, of over 1000 pages. 
CHRISTISON (ROBERT), M. D., V. P. R, S. E., &c. 
It is not needful that we should compare it with 
the other pharmacopoeias extant, which enjoy and 
merit the confidence of the profession : it is enough 
to say that it appears to us as perfect as a Dispensa- 
tory, in the present state of pharmaceutical science, 
could be made. If it omits any details pertaining to 
tills branch of knowledge which the student has a 
right to expect in such a work, we confess the omis- 
sion has escaped our scrutiny. We cordially recom- 
mend this work to such of our readers as are in need 
of a Dispensatory. They cannot make choice of a 
better.—Western Journ. of Medicine and Surgery. 
There is not in any language a more complete and 
perfect Treatise.—N. Y. Annalist. 
In conclusion, we need scarcely gay that we 
strongly recommend this work to all classes of our 
readers. Asa Dispensatory and commentary on the 
Pharmacopmias, it is unrivalled in the English or 
any other language—The Dublin Quarterly Journal. 
We earnestly recommend Dr. Christison’s Dis- 
pensatory to all our readers, as an indispensable 
companion, not in the Study only, but in the Surgery 
also.—British and Foreign Medical Review. BLANCHARD & LEA’S MEDICAL 
8 
CON DI E (D. F.), M. □ &c. 
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE DISEASES OF CHILDREN. Fourth 
edition, revised and augmented. In one large volume, Bvo., of nearly 750 pages. (Lately Issued.) 
From the Author’s Preface. 
The demand for another edition has afforded the author an opportunity of again subjecting the 
entire treatise to a careful revision, and of incorporating in it every important observation recorded 
since the appearance of the last edition, in reference to the pathology and therapeutics of the several 
diseases of which it treats. 
In the preparation of the present edition, as in those which have preceded, while the author has 
appropriated to his use every important fact that he has found recorded in the works of others, 
having a direct bearing upon either of the subjects of which he treats, and the numerous valuable 
observations—pathological as well as practical—dispersed throughout the pages of the medical 
journals of Europe and America, he has, nevertheless, relied chiefly upon his own observations and 
experience, acquired during a long and somewhat extensive practice, and under circumstances pe- 
culiarly well adapted for the clinical study of the diseases of early life. 
Every species of hypothetical reasoning has, as much as possible, been avoided. The author has 
endeavored throughout the work to confine himself to a simple statement of well-ascertained patho- 
logical facts, and plain therapeutical directions—his chief desire being to render it what its title 
imports it to be, a practical treatise on the diseases of children. 
Dr. Combe’s scholarship, acumen, industry, and 
practical sense are manifested in this, as in all his 
numerous contributions to science.—Dr. Holmes’s 
Deport to the American Medical Association. 
Taken as a whole, in our judgment, Dr. Condie's 
Treatise is the one from the perusal of which the 
practitioner in this country will rise with the great- 
est satisfaction —Western Journal of Medicine and 
Surgery. 
We feel assured from actual experience that no 
physician’s library can he complete without a copy 
of this work.—N. Y. Journal of Medicine. 
A veritable paediatric encyclopaedia, and an honor 
to American medical literature.—Ohio Medical and. 
Surgical Journal. 
We feel persuaded that the American medical pro- 
fession will soon regard it not only as a very good, 
hut as the very best “Practical Treatise on the 
Diseases of Children.”—American Medical Journal. 
One of the best works upon the Diseases of Chil- 
dren in the English language.—Western Lancet. 
Perhaps the. most full and Complete work now be- 
fore the profession of the United States; indeed, we 
may say in the English language. It is vastly supe- 
rior to most of its predecessors.—Transylvania Med. 
Journal. 
AVe pronounced the first edition to he. the best 
work on the diseases of children in the English 
language, and, notwithstanding all that has been 
published, we still regard it in that light.—Medical 
Examiner. 
COOPER (BRANSBY B.), F. R. S., 
LECTURES ON THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SURGERY. 
Senior Surgeon to Guy’s Hospital, &c. 
For twenty-five years Mr. Bransby Cooper has 
been surgeon to Guy’s Hospital; and the volume 
before us may be said to consist of an account of 
the results of his surgical experience during that 
long period. We cordially recommend Mr. Bransby 
la one very large octavo volume', of 750 pages. {Lately Issued.) 
Cooper’s Lectures as a most valuable addition to 
our surgical literature, and one which cannot fail 
to be of service both to students and to those who 
are actively engaged in the practice of their profes- 
sion.—The Lancet, 
A TREATISE ON DISLOCATIONS AND FRACTURES OF THE JOINTS. 
Edited by Bransby B. Cooper, F. R. S., &c. With additional Observations by Prof. J. C. 
Warren. A new American edition. In one handsome octavo volume, of about 500 pages, with 
numerous illustrations on wood. 
COOPER (SIR ASTLEY P.), F. R. S., &c. 
THE SAME AUTHOR. 
ON THE ANATOMY AND TREATMENT OF ABDOMINAL HERNIA. 
One large volume, imperial Bvo., with over 130 lithographic figures. 
THE SAME AUTHOR. 
ON THE STRUCTURE AND DISEASES OF THE TESTIS, AND ON 
THE THYMUS GLAND. One vol. imperial Svo., with 177 figures, on 29 plates. 
ON THE ANATOMY AND DISEASES OF THE BREAST, with twenty- 
five Miscellaneous and Surgical Papers. One large volume, imperial Bvo., with 252 figures, on 
36 plates. 
These last three volumes complete the surgical writings of Sir Astley Cooper. They are very 
handsomely printed, with a large number of lithographic plates, executed in the best style, and are 
presented at exceedingly low prices. 
THE SAME AUTHOR. 
' CARSON (JOSEPH), M. D., 
Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy in the University of Pennsylvania. 
SYNOPSIS OF THE COURSE OF LECTURES ON MATERIA MEDICA 
AND PHARMACY, delivered in the University of Pennsylvania. In one very neat octavo 
volume, of 208 pages. AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS. 
9 
CHURCHILL (FLEETWOOD), M. D., M. R. I. A. 
ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MIDWIFERY. A new American, 
from the last and improved English edition. Edited, with Notes and Additions, by D. Francis 
Condxe, M. D., author of a “Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children,” &c. With 139 
illustrations. In one very handsome octavo volume, pp. 510. (Lately Issued.) 
To bestow praise on a book that has received such 
marked approbation would be superfluous. We need 
only say, therefore, that if the first edition was 
thought worthy of a favorable reception by the 
medical public, we can confidently affirm that this 
will be found much more so. The lecturer, the 
practitioner, and the student, may all have recourse 
to its pages, and derive from their perusal much in- 
terest anddnstruction in everything relating to theo- 
retical and practical midwifery.—Dublin Quarterly 
Journal of Medical Science. 
No work holds a higher position, or is more de- 
serving of being placed in the hands of the tyro, 
the advanced student, or the practitioner.—Medical 
Examiner. 
Previous editions, under the editorial supervision 
of Prof R. M. Huston, have been received with 
marked favor, and they deserved it; but this, re- 
printed from a very late Dublin edition, carefully 
revised and brought up by the author to the present 
time, does present an unusually accurate and able 
exposition of every important particular embraced 
in the department of midwifery. * * The clearness, 
directness, and precision of its teachings, together 
with the great amount of statistical research which 
its text exhibits, have served to place it already in 
the foremost rank of works in this department of re- 
medial science.—N. O. Med. and Surg. Journal. 
A work of very great merit, and such as we can 
confidently recommend to the study of every obste- 
tric practitioner.—London Medical Gazette. 
This is certainly the most perfect system extant. 
It is the best adapted for the purposes of a text- 
book, and that which he whose necessities confine 
him to one book, should select in preference to all 
others.—Southern Medical and Surgical Journal. 
In our opinion, it forms one of the best if not the 
very best text-book and epitome of obstetric science 
which we at present possess in the English lan- 
guage.— Monthly Journal of Medical Science. 
The most popular work on midwifery ever issued 
from the American press.—Charleston Med. Journal. 
Were we reduced to the necessity of having but 
one work on midwifery, and ■permitted to choose, 
we would unhesitatingly take Churchill.—Western 
Med. and Surg. Journal. 
The clearness and precision of style in which it is 
written, and the great amount of statistical research 
which it contains, have served to place it in the first 
rank of works in this departmentof medical science. 
—N. Y. Journal of Medicine. 
It is impossible to conceive a more useful and 
elegant manual than Dr. Churchill’s Practice of 
Midwifery.—Provincial Medical Journal. 
Certainly, in our opinion, the very best work on 
the subject which exists.—N. Y. Annalist. 
Few treatises will be found better adapted as a 
text-book for the student, or as a manual for the 
frequent consultation of the young practitioner.— 
American Medical Journal. 
THE SAME AUTHOR. 
ON THE DISEASES OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN. In one large and 
handsome volume of over 600 pages. 
We regard this volume as possessing more claims 
to completeness than any other of the kind with 
which we are acquainted. Most cordially and earn- 
estly, therefore, do we commend it to our profession- 
al brethren, and we feel assured that the stamp of 
their approbation will indue time be impressed upon 
it. After an attentive perusal of its contents, we 
hesitate not to say, that it is one of the most com- 
prehensive ever written upon the diseases of chil- 
dren, and that, for copiousness of reference, extent of 
research, and perspicuity of detail, it is scarcely to 
be equalled, and not to be excelled, in any lan- 
guage.—Dublin Quarterly Journal. 
The present volume will sustain the reputation 
acquired by the author from his previous works. 
The reader will find in it full and judicious direc- 
tions for the management of infants at birth, and a 
compendious, but clear account of the diseases to 
which children are liable, and the most successful 
mode of treating them. We must not close this no- 
tice without calling attention to the author’s style, 
which is perspicuous and polished to a degree, we 
regret to say, not generally' characteristic of medical 
works. We recommend the work of Dr. Churchill 
most cordially, both to students and practitioners, 
as a valuable and reliable guide iu the treatment of 
the diseases of children.—Am. Joum. of the Med. 
Sciences. 
After this meagre, and we know, very imperfect 
notice of Dr. Churchill’s work, we shall conclude 
by saying, that it is one that cannot fail from its co- 
piousness, extensive research, and general accuracy, 
to exalt still higher the reputation of the author in 
this country. The American reader will be particu- 
larly pleased to find that Dr. Churchill has done full 
justice throughout his work to the various American 
authors on this subject. The names of Dewees, 
Eberle, Condie, and Stewart, occur on nearly every 
page, and these authors are constantly referred to by 
the author iu terms of the highest praise, and with 
the most liberal courtesy.—The Medical Examiner. 
We know of no work on this department of Prac- 
tical Medicine which presents so candid and unpre- 
judiced a statement or posting up of our actual 
knowledge as this.—N. Y. Journal of Medicine. 
Its claims to merit both as a scientific and practi- 
cal work, are of the highest order. Whilst we 
would not elevate it above every other treatise on 
the same subject, we certainly' believe that very' few 
are equal to it, and none superior.—Southern Med. 
and Surgical Journal. 
THE SAME AUTHOR. 
ES3AYS ON THE PUERPERAL FEVER, AND OTHER DISEASES PE- 
CULIAR TO WOMEN. Selected from the writings of British Authors previous to the close of 
the Eighteenth Century. In one neat octavo volume, of about four hundred and fifty pages. 
To these papers Dr. Churchill has appended notes, 
embodying whatever information has been laid be- 
fore the profession since their authors’ time. He has 
also prefixed to the Essays on Puerperal Fever, 
which occupy the larger portion of the volume, an 
interesting historical sketch of the principal epi- 
demies of that disease. The whole forms a very- 
valuable collection of papers, by professional writers 
of eminence, on some of the most important accidents 
to which the puerperal female is liable.—American 
Journal of Medical Sciences. BLANCHARD & LEA’S MEDICAL 
CHURCHILL (FLEETWOOD), M. D., M. R. I. A., &c. 
ON THE DISEASES OF WOMEN; including those of Pregnancy and Child- 
bed. A new American edition, revised by the Author. With Notes and Additions, by D Fran- 
cis Condie, M. D., author of “A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children.” In one large 
and handsome octavo volume, with wood-cuts, pp. 684. (Just Issued.) 
We now regretfully take leave of Dr. Churchill’s 
book. Had our typographical limits permitted, we 
should gladly have borrowed more from its richly 
stored pages. In conclusion, we heartily recom- 
mend it to the profession, and would at the same 
time express our firm conviction that it will not only 
add to the reputation of its author, but will prove a 
work of great and extensive utility to obstetric 
practitioners.—Dublin Medical Press. 
Former editions of this work have been noticed in 
previous numbers of the Journal. The sentiments of 
high commendation expressed in those notices, have 
only to be repeated in this; not from the fact that 
the profession at large are not aware of the high 
merits which this work really possesses, but from a 
desire to see the principles and doctrines therein 
contained more generally recognized, and more uni- 
versally carried out in practice.—N. Y. Journal of 
Medicine. 
We know of no author who deserves that appro- 
bation, on “the diseases of females,” to the same 
extent that Dr. Churchill does. His, indeed, is the 
only thorough treatise we know of on the subject ; 
and it may be commended to practitioners and stu- 
dents as a masterpiece in its particular department. 
The former editions of this work have been com- 
mended strongly in this journal, and they have won 
their way to an extended, and a well-deserved popu- 
larity. This fifth edition, before us, is well calcu- 
lated to maintain Dr. Churchill’s high reputation. 
It was revised and enlarged by the author, for his 
American publishers, and it seems to us that there is 
scarcely any species of desirable information on its 
subjects that may not be found in this work.—The 
Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery. 
We are gratified to announce a new and revised 
edition ofDr. Churchill’s valuable work on the dis- 
eases of females We have ever regarded it as one 
of the very best works on the subjects embraced 
within its scope, in the English language; and the 
present edition, enlarged and revised by the author, 
renders it still more entitled to the confidence of the 
profession. The valuable notes of Prof Huston 
have been retained, and contribute, in no small de- 
gree, to enhance the value of the work. It is a 
source of congratulation that the publishers have 
permitted the author to be, in this instance, his 
own editor, thus securing all the revision which 
an author alone is capable of making.—The Western 
Lancet. 
Asa comprehensive manual for students, or a 
work of reference for practitioners, we only speak 
with common justice when we say that it surpasses 
any other that has ever issued on the same sub- 
ject from the British press.—The Dublin Quarterly 
Journal. 
DICKSON' (S. H.), M. D., 
Professor of Institutes and Practice of Medicine in the Medical College of South Carolina ; late Professor 
of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine in the University of New York, &c. &c. 
ELEMENTS OF MEDICINE; A Treatise on Pathology and Therapeutics. In 
one large and handsome octavo volume of nearly 800 pages. (Nearly Ready.) 
As a text-book on the Practice of Medicine for the student, and as a condensed work of reference; 
for the practitioner, this volume will have strong claims on the attention of the American profession. 
Few physicians have had wider opportunities, than the author, for observation and experience, and 
few perhaps have used them better. As the result of a life of study and practice, therefore, the 
present volume will doubtless be received with the welcome it deserves. 
From the Preface. 
The present volume is intended as an aid to young men who have engaged in the study of medi- 
cine, to physicians who have recently assumed the responsibilities of practice, and to my fellow 
professors of the Institutes of Medicine, and private instructors who have felt the difficulty of com- 
municating to the two first classes the knowledge which they are earnestly seeking to acquire. 
Having been a teacher of medicine for thirty years, and a student more than forty, I must have 
accumulated some experience in both characters. I have prepared and printed for those in attend- 
ance on my lectures many successive manuals or text-books. I have also written and published 
several volumes on medical subjects in general. The following pages are the result of a careful 
collation of all that has been esteemed valuable in both, with such matter as continued study and 
enlarged experience has enabled me to add. 
DEWEES (W. R.), M.D., &c. 
A COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM OF MIDWIFERY. Illustrated by occa- 
sional Cases and many Engravings. Twelfth edition, with the Author’s last Improvements and 
Corrections. In one octavo volume, of 600 pages. {Just Issued.) 
A TREATISE ON THE PHYSICAL AND MEDICAL TREATMENT OF 
CHILDREN. Tenth edition. In one volume, octavo, 548 pages. {Just Issued.) 
THE SAME AUTHOR. 
THE SAME AUTHOR. 
A TREATISE ON THE DISEASES OF FEMALES. Tenth edition. In 
one volume, octavo, 532 pages, with plates. {Just Issued.) 
DANA (JAMES D) 
ZOOPHYTES AND CORALS. In one volume, imperial quarto, extra cloth, 
with wood-cuts. /Also, AN ATLAS, in one volume, imperial folio, with sixty-one magnificent 
plates, colored after nature. Bound in half morocco.' 
THE GEOLOGICAL OBSERVER. In one very large and handsome octavo 
volume, of 700 pages. With over three hundred wood-cuts. (Lately Issued.) 
DE LA BECHE (SIR henry T.), f. R. S., &c. AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS. 
11 
DR.U ITT (ROBERT), M.R. C.S., &c. 
THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF MODERN SURGERY. A new 
American, from the improved London edition. Edited by F. W, Sargent, M. D., author of 
“Minor Surgery,” &c. Illustrated with one hundred and ninety-three wood-engravings. In 
one very handsomely printed octavo volume, of 576 large pages. 
Dr. Druitt’s researches into the literature of his 
subject have been not only extensive, but well di- 
rected ; the most discordant authors are fairly and 
impartially quoted, and, while due credit is given 
to each, their respective merits are weighed with 
an unprejudiced hand. The grain of wheat is pre- 
served, and the chalf is unmercifully stripped off. 
The arrangement is simple and philosophical, and 
the style, though clear and interesting, is so precise, 
that the book contains more information condensed 
into a few words than any other surgical work with 
which -we are acquainted.—London Medical Times 
and Gazette, February 18, 1854. 
is really practically useful at the bedside will be 
found in a form at once clear, distinct, and interest- 
ing.—Edinburgh Monthly Medical. Journal. 
Druitt’s work, condensed, systematic, lucid, and 
practical as it is, beyond most works on Surgery 
accessible to the American student, has had much 
currency in this country, and under its present au- 
spices promises to rise to yet higher favor.— The 
Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery. 
The most accurate and ample resumfe of the pre- 
sent state of Surgery that we are acquainted with.— 
Dublin Medical Journal. 
No work, in our opinion, equals it in presenting 
so much valuable surgical matter in so small a 
compass.—St. Lotus Med. and Surgical Journal. 
A better book on the principles and practice of 
Surgery as now understood in England and America, 
has not been given to the profession.—Boston Medi- 
cal and Surgical Journal. 
Druitt’s Surgery is too well known to the Ameri- 
can medical profession to require its announcement 
anywhere. Probably no work of the kind has ever 
been more cordially received and extensively circu- 
lated than this. The fact that it comprehends in a 
comparatively small compass, all the essential ele- 
ments of theoretical and practical Surgery—that it 
is found to contain reliable and authentic informa- 
tion on the nature and treatment of nearly all surgi- 
cal affections—is a sufficient reason for the liberal 
patronage it has obtained. The editor, Dr. F. W. 
Sargent", has contributed much to enhance the value 
of the work, by such American improvements as are 
calculated more perfectly to adapt it to our own 
views and practice in this country. It abounds 
everywhere with spirited and life-like illustrations, 
which to the young surgeon, especially, are of no 
minor consideration. Every medical man frequently 
needs just such a work as this, for immediate refe- 
rence in moments of sudden emergency, when he has 
Bot time to consult more elaborate treatises.—The 
Ohio Medical and Surgical Journal. 
An unsurpassable compendium, not only of Sur- 
gical, but of Medical Practice.—London Medical 
Gazette. 
This work merits our warmest commendations, 
and we strongly recommend it to young surgeons as 
an admirable digest of the principles and practice of 
modern Surgery.—Medical Gazette. 
% 
It may he said with truth that the work of . 
Druitt affords a complete, though brief and con- 
densed view, of the entire field of modern surgery. 
We know of no work on the same subject, having the 
appearance of a manual, which includes so many 
topics of interest to the surgeon ; and the terse man- 
ner in which each has been treated evinces a most 
enviable quality of mind on the part of the author, 
who seems to have an innate power of searching 
out and grasping the leading facts and features of 
the most elaborate productions of the pen. It is a 
useful handbook for the practitioner, and we should 
deem a teacher of surgery unpardonable who did not 
recommend it to his pupils. In our own opinion, it 
is admirably adapted to the wants of the student,— 
Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal. 
The author has evidently ransacked every stand- 
ard treatise of ancient and modern times, and all that 
DUNGLISON, FORBES, TWEEDIE, AND CONOLLY. 
THE CYCLOPAEDIA OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE: comprising Treatises on 
the Nature and Treatment of Diseases, Materia Medica, and Therapeutics, Diseases of Women 
and Children, Medical Jurisprudence, &c. &c. In four large super royal octavo volumes, of 
3254 double-columned pages, strongly and handsomely bound. 
This work contains no less than four hundred and eighteen distinct treatises, contributed by 
sixty-eight distinguished physicians. 
The most complete work on Practical Medicine unquestionably one of very great value to the prac- 
extant; or, at least, in our language.— Buffalo titioner. This estimate of it has not been formed 
Medical and Surgical Journal. from a hasty examination, but after an intimate ac- 
quaintance derived from frequent consultation of it 
For reference, it is above all price to every prac- during the past nine or ten years. The editors are 
titioner.—Western Lancet. practitioners of established reputation, and the list 
of contributors embraces many of the most eminent 
One of the most valuable medical publications of professors and teachers of London, Edinburgh, Dub- 
the day—as a work of reference it is invaluable.— !>n) and Glasgow. It is, indeed, the great merit of 
Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery. this work that the principal articles have been fur- 
nished by practitioners who have not only devoted 
It has been to us, both as learner and teacher, a especial attention to the diseases about which they 
workfor ready and frequent reference, one in which ,iave written, but have also enjoyed opportunities 
modern English medicine is exhibited in the most for an extensive practical acquaintance with them, 
advantageous light.—Medical Examiner. and whose reputation carries the assurance of their 
competency justly to (appreciate the opinions of 
We rejoice that this work is to be placed within others, while it stamps their own doctrines with 
the reach of the profession in this country, it being high and just authority.—American Medical Journ. 
DUNGLISON (ROBLEY), M.D., 
Professor of the Institutes of Medicine in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. 
HUMAN HEALTH; or, the Influence of Atmosphere and Locality, Change of 
Air and Climate, Seasons, Food, Clothing, Bathing, Exercise, Sleep, &c. &c., on Healthy Man ; 
constituting Elements of Hygiene, Second edition, with many modifications and additions. In 
one octavo volume, of 464 pages. 12 
BLANCHARD & LEA’S MEDICAL 
DUNGLISON (ROBLEY), M.D., 
Professor of Institutes of Medicine in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. 
MEDICAL LEXICON; a Dictionary of Medical Science, containing a concise 
Explanation of the various Subjects and Terms of Physiology, Pathology, Hygiene, Therapeutics, 
Pharmacology, Obstetrics, Medical Jurisprudence, &c. With the French and other Synonymes; 
Notices of Climate and of celebrated Mineral Waters; Formulae for various Officinal, Empirical, 
and Dietetic Preparations, etc. Twelfth edition, revised. In one very thick octavo volume, ot 
over nine hundred large double-columned pages, strongly bound in leather, with raised bands. 
(Just Issued.) 
Every successive edition of this work bears the marks of the industry of the author, and of his 
determination to keep it fully on a level with the most advanced state of medical science. Thus 
nearly fifteen thousand words have been added to it within the last few years. As a complete 
Medical Dictionary, therefore, embracing over FIFTY THOUSAND DEFINITIONS, in ail the 
branches of the science, it is presented as meriting a continuance of the great favor and popularity 
which have carried it, within no very long space of time, to a twelfth edition. 
Every precaution has been taken in the preparatioaof the present volume, to render its mecha- 
nical execution and typographical accuracy worthy of its extended reputation and universal use. 
The very extensive additions have been accommodated, without materially increasing the bulk of 
the volume by the employment of a small but exceedingly clear type, cast for this purpose. The 
press has been watched with great care, and every effort used to insure the verbal accuracy so ne- 
cessary to a work of this nature. The whole is printed on fine white paper; and, while thus exhi- 
biting in every respect so great an improvement over former issues, it is presented at the original 
exceedingly low price. 
We welcome itpordially; it is an admirable work, 
and indispensable to all literary medical men. The 
labor which has been bestowed upon it is something 
prodigious. The work, however, has now been 
done, and we are happy in the thought that no bu- 
being will have again to undertake the same 
gigantic task. Revised and corrected from time to 
time, Dr. Dunglisnn’s “ Medical Lexicon” will last 
for centuries.—British and Foreign Med. Chirurg. 
Review. 
readers to its peculiar merits; and we need do 
little more than state, in reference to the present 
reissue, that, notwithstanding the large additions 
previously made to it, no fewer than four thou- 
sand terms, not to be found in the preceding edi- 
tion, are contained in the volume before ust— 
Whilst it is a wonderful monument of its author’s 
erudition and industry, it is also a work of great 
practical utility, as we can testify from our own 
experience; for we keep it constantly within our 
reach, and make very frequent reference to it, 
nearly always finding in it the information we seek. 
—British and Foreign Med.-Chirurg. Review. 
The fact that this excellent and learned work has 
passed through eight editions, and that a ninth is 
rendered necessary by the demands of the public, 
affords a sufficient evidence of the general apprecia- 
tion of Dr. Dungiison’s labors by the medical pro- 
fession in F.ngland and America. It is a book which 
will be of great service to the student, in teaching 
him the meaning of all the technical terms used in 
medicine, and will he of no less use to the practi- 
tioner who desires to keep himself on a level with 
the advance of medical science.—London Medical 
Times and Gazette. 
It has the rare merit that it certainly has no rival 
in the English language for accuracy and extent 
of references. The terms generally include short 
physiological and pathological descriptions, so that, 
as the author justly observes, the reader does not 
possess in this work a mere dictionary, but a book, 
which, while it instructs him in medical etymo- 
logy, furnishes him with a large amount of useful 
information. The author’s labors have been pro- 
perly appreciated by his own countrymen ; and we 
can only confirm their judgment, by recommending 
this most useful volume to the notice of our cisat- 
lantic readers. No medical library will be complete 
without it.—London Med. Gazette. 
In taking leave of our author, we feel compelled 
to confess that his work bears evidence of almost 
incredible labor having been bestowed upon its com- 
position.— Edinburgh Journal of Med. Sciences. 
A miracle of labor and industry in one who has 
Written able and voluminous works on nearly every 
branch of medical science. There could be no more 
useful book to the student or practitioner, in the 
present advancing age, than one in which would be 
found, in addition to the ordinary meaning and deri- 
vation of medical terms—so many of which are of 
modern introduction—concise descriptions of their 
explanation and employment; and all this and much 
more is contained in the volume before us. It is 
therefore almost as indispensable to the other learned 
professions as to our own. In fact, to all who may 
have occasion to ascertain the meaning of any word 
belonging to the many branches of medicine. From 
a careful examination of the present edition, we can 
vouch for its accuracy, and for its being brought 
quite up to thedate of publication; the author states 
in his preface that he has added to it about four thou- 
sand terms, which are not to be found in the prece- 
ding one. Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical 
Sciences. 
It is certainly more complete and comprehensive 
than any with which we are acquainted in the 
English language. Few, in fact, could be found 
belter qualified than Dr. Dunglison for the produc- 
tion of such a work. Learned, industrious, per- 
severing, and accurate, he brings to the task all 
the peculiar talents necessary for its successful 
performance; while, at the same time, his fami- 
liarity with the writings of the ancient and modern 
“ masters of our art,” renders him skilful to note 
the exact usage of the several terras of science, 
and the various modifications which medical term- 
inology has undergone with the change of theo- 
ries or the progress of improvement. American 
Journal of the Medical Sciences. 
One of the most complete and copious known to 
the cultivators of medical science.—Boston Med. 
Journal. 
On the appearance of the last edition of this 
valuable work, we directed the attention of out 
The most comprehensive and best English Dic- 
tionary of medical terms extant.—Buffalo Medical 
Journal. 
THE SAME AUTHOR. 
THE FKACTICE OF MEDICINE. A Treatise on Special Pathology and The- 
rapeutics. Third Edition. In two large octavo volumes, of fifteen hundred pages. 
Upon every topic embraced in the work the latest 
information will he found carefully posted up.— 
Medical-Examiner. 
ferings of the race.—Boston Medical and Surgical 
Journal. 
The student of medicine will find, in these two 
elegant volumes, a mine of facts, a gathering of 
precepts and advice from the world of experience, 
that will neive him with courage, and faithfully 
direct him in his efforts to relieve the physical suf- 
It is certainly the most complete treatise of which 
We have any knowledge.— Western Journal of Medi- 
cine and Surgery. 
One of the most elaborate treatises of the kind 
we have.—Southern Med. and Surg. Journal. AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS. 
13 
DUNGLISON (ROBLEY), M.D., 
Professor of Institutes of Medicine in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. 
HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY. Seventh edition. Thoroughly revised and exten- 
sively modified and enlarged, with nearly five hundred illustrations. In two large and hand- 
somely printed octavo volumes, containing nearly 1450 pages. 
It has long since taken rank as one of the medi- 
cal classics of our language. To say that it is by 
far the best text-book of physiology ever published 
in this country, is but echoing the general testi- 
mony of the profession.—N. Y. Journal of Medic ine. 
There is no single book we would recommend to 
the student or physician, with greater confidence 
than the present, because in it will be found a mir- 
ror of almost every standard physiological work of 
the day. We most cordially recommend the work 
to every member of the profession, and no student 
should he without it. It is the completes! work on 
Physiology in the English language, and is highly 
creditable to the author and publishers.—Canadian 
Medical Journal. 
The most complete, and satisfactory system of 
Physiology in the English language.—Amer. Med. 
Journal. , 
The best work of the kind in the English lan- 
guage.—Silliman’s Journal. 
The most full and complete system of Physiology 
in our language.—Western Lancet. 
THE SAME AUTHOR. {Just Issued.) 
GENERAL THERAPEUTICS AND MATERIA MEDIC A; adapted for a 
Medical Text-book. Fifth edition, much improved. With one hundred and eighty-seven illus- 
trations. In two large and handsomely printed octavo vols., of about 1100 pages. 
The new editions of the United States Pharmacopoeia and those of London and Dublin, have ren- 
dered necessary a thorough revision of this work. In accomplishing this the author has spared no 
pains in rendering it a complete exponent of all that is new and reliable, both in the departments 
of Therapeutics and Materia Medica. The book has thus been somewhat enlarged, and a like im- 
provement will be found in every department of its mechanical execution. As a convenient text- 
book for the student, therefore, containing within a moderate compass a satisfactory resume of its 
important subject, it is again presented as even more worthy than heretofore of the very great favor 
which it has received. 
As a text-book for students, for whom it is par- 
ticularly designed, we know of none superior to 
it.—St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal. 
In this work of Dr. Dunglison, we recognize the 
same untiring industry in the collection and em- 
bodying oft facts on the several subjects of which he 
treats, that has heretofore distinguished him, and 
we cheerfully point to these volumes, as two of the 
most interesting that we know of. In noticing the 
additions to this, the fourth edition, there is very 
little in the periodical or annual literature of the 
profession, published in the interval which has 
elapsed since the issue of the first, that has escaped 
the careful search of the author. As a book for 
reference, it is invaluable.—Charleston Med. Jour- 
nal and Review. 
It purports to be a new edition, but it is rather 
a new book, so greatly has it been improved, both 
in the amount and quality of the matter which it 
contains.—N. O. Medical and Surgical Journal. 
We bespeak for this edition, from the profession, 
an increase of patronage over any of its former 
ones, on account of its increased merit.—JV. Y. 
Journal of Medicine. 
It may be said to be the work now upon the sub- 
jects upon which it treats.—Western Lancet. 
We consider this work unequalled.—Boston Med. 
and Surg. Journal. 
THE SAME AUTHOR. 
NEW REMEDIES, WITH FORMULAE FOR THEIR ADMINISTRATION. 
Sixth edition, with extensive Additions. In one very large octavo, volume, of over 750 pages. 
One of the most useful of the author’s works.— 
Southern Medical and Surgical Journal. 
diseases and for remedies, will be found greatly to 
enhance its value.—New York Med. Gazette. 
This well-known and standard book has now 
reached its sixth edition, and has been enlarged and 
improved by the introduction of all the recent gifts 
to therapeutics which the last few years have so 
richly produced, including the anaesthetic agents, 
&c. This elaborate and useful volume should be 
found in every medical library, for as a book of re- 
ference, for physicians, it is unsurpassed by any 
other work in existence, and the double index for 
The great learning of the author, and his remark- 
able industry in pushing his researches into every 
source whence information is derivable, has enabled 
him to throw together an extensive mass of facts 
and statements, accompanied by full reference to 
authorities; which last feature renders the work 
practically valuable to investigators who desire to 
examine the original papers.—The American Journal 
of Pharmacy. 
DE JONGH (L. J.), M. D., &c. 
THE THREE KINDS OF COD-LIVER OIL, comparatively considered, with 
their Chemical and Therapeutic Properties. Translated, with an Appendix and Cases, by 
Edward Carey, M. D. To which is added an article on the subject from “Dunglison on New 
Remedies.” In one small 12mo. volume, extra cloth. / 
DAY (GEORGE E.), M. D. 
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE DOMESTIC MANAGEMENT AND 
MORE IMPORTANT DISEASES OF ADVANCED LIFE. With an Appendix on a new 
and successful mode of treating Lumbago and other forms of Chronic Rheumatism. One volume, 
octavo, 226 pages. 
FRICK (CHARLES), M. D. 
RENAL AFFECTIONS; their Diagnosis and Pathology. With illustrations. 
One volume, royal 12m0., extra cloth. 14 
BLANCHARD & LEA’S MEDICAL 
ERICHSEN (JOHN), 
THE SCIENCE AND ART OF SURGERY; being a Treatise on Surgical 
Injuries, Diseases, and Operations. Edited by John H. Brinton, M. D. Illustrated with 
three hundred and eleven engravings on wood. In one large and handsome octavo volume, of 
over nine hundred closely printed pages. [Just Issued.) 
Professor of Surgery in University College, London, &c. 
It is, in our humble judgment, decidedly the best 
hook of the kind in the English language. Strange 
that just such books are notoftener produced by pub- 
lic teachers of surgery in this country and Great 
Britain. Indeed, it is a matter of great astonishment, 
but no less true than astonishing, that of the many 
works on surgery republished in this country within 
the last, fifteen or twenty years as text-books for 
medical students, this is the only one, that even ap- 
proximates to the fulfilment of the peculiar wants of 
young men just entering upon the study of this branch 
of the profession.— Western Jour .of Med. and Surgery. 
Embracing, as will be perceived, the whole surgi- 
cal domain, and each division of itself almost com- 
plete and pe-rfect, each chapter full and explicit, each 
subject faithfully exhibited, we can only express our 
extimate of it in the aggregate. We consider it an 
excellent contribution to surgery, as probably the 
best single volume now extant on the subject, and 
with great pleasure we add it to our text-books 
Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery. 
Its value is greatly enhanced by a very copious 
well-arranged index. We regard this as one of the 
most valuable contributions to modern surgery. To 
one entering his novitiate of practice, we regard it 
the most serviceable guide which he can consult. He 
will find a fulness of detail leading him through every 
step of the operation, and not deserting him until the 
final issue of the case is decided. For the same, rea- 
son we recommend it to those whose routine of prac- 
tice lies in such parts of the country that they must 
rarely encounter cases requiring surgical manage- 
ment.—Stethoscope. 
Prof. Erichsen’s work, for its size, has not been 
surpassed; his nine hundred and eight pages, pro- 
fusely illustrated, are rich in physiological, patholo- 
gical, and operative suggestions, doctrines, details, 
and processes ; and will prove a reliable resource 
for information, both to physician and surgeon, in the 
hour of peril.— N. 0. Med. and Surg. Journal. 
We are acquainted with no other work wherein 
so much good sense, sound principle, and practical 
inferences, stamp every page. To say more of the 
volume would be useless; to say less would be doing 
injustice to a production which we consider above 
all others at the present day, and superior and more 
complete than the many excellent treatises of the 
English and Scotch surgeons, and this is no small 
encomium.—American Lancet. 
ELLIS (BENJAMIN), M.D. 
THE MEDICAL FORMULARY: being a Collection of Prescriptions, derived 
from the writings and practice of many of the most eminent physicians-of America and Europe. 
Together with the usual Dietetic Preparations and Antidotes for Poisons. To which is added 
an Appendix, on the Endemic use of Medicines, and on the use of Ether and Chloroform. The 
whole accompanied with a few brief Pharmaceutic and Medical Observations. Tenth edition, 
revised and much extended by Robert P. Thomas, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica in the 
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. In one neat octavo volume, of two hundred and ninety-six 
pages. (Lately Issued.) 
After an examination of the new matter and the 
alterations, we believe the reputation of the work 
built up by the author, and the late distinguished 
editor, will continue to flourish under the auspices 
of the present editor, who has the industry and accu- 
racy, and, we would say, conscientiousness requi- 
site for the responsible task.—American Journal of 
Pharmacy, March, 1854. 
It will prove particularly useful to students and 
young practitioners, as the most important prescrip- 
tions employed in modern practice, which lie scat- 
tered through our medical literature, are here col- 
lected and conveniently arranged for reference.— 
Charleston Med. Journal and Review. 
ELEMENTARY CHEMISTRY; Theoretical and Practical. With numerous 
illustrations. A new American, from the last and revised London edition. Edited, with Addi- 
tions, by Robert Bridges, M. D. In one large royal 12mo. volume, of over 550 pages, with 181 
wood-cuts, sheep, or extra cloth. (Now Ready.) 
The lamented death of the author has caqsed the revision of this edition to pass into the hands oi 
those distinguished chemists, H. Bence Jones and A. W. Hofmann, who have fully sustained its 
reputation by the additions which they have made, more especially in the portion devoted to Organic 
Chemistry, considerably increasing the size of the volume. This labor has been so thoroughly 
performed, that the American Editor has found but little to add, his notes consisting chiefly of such 
matters as the rapid advance of the science has rendered necessary, or of investigations which had 
apparently been overlooked by the author’s friends. 
The volume is therefore again presented as an exponent of the most advanced state of chemical 
science, and as not unworthy a continuation of the marked favor which it has received as an ele- 
mentary text-book. 
FOWNES (GEORGE), PH. D., &c. 
We know of no better text-book, especially in the 
difficult department of organic chemistry, upon 
which it is particularly full and satisfactory. We 
would recommend it to preceptors as a capital 
“ office book” for their students who are beginners 
in Chemistry. It is copiously illustrated with ex- 
cellent wood-cuts, and altogether admirably “got 
up.”—N. J. Medical Reporter, March, 1854. 
The work of Dr. Fownes has long been before 
the public, and its merits have been fully appreci- 
ated as the best text-book on chemistry now in 
existence. We do not, of course, place it in a rank 
superior to the works of Brande, Graham, Turner, 
Gregory, or Gmelin, but we say that, as a work 
for students, it. is preferable to any of them.—Lon- 
don Journal of Medicine. 
A standard manual, which has long enjoyed the 
reputation of embodying much knowledge in a small 
space. The author has achieved the difficult task of 
condensation with masterly tact. His book is con- 
cise without being dry, and brief without being too 
dogmatical or general.— Virginia Med. and Surgical 
Journal. 
A work well adapted to the wants of the student. 
It is an excellent exposition of the chief doctrines 
and facts of modern chemistry. The size of the work, 
and still more the condensed yet perspicuous style 
in which it is written, absolve it from the charges 
very properly urged against most manuals termed 
popular.—Edinburgh Monthly Journal of Medical 
Science. AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS. 
15 
FERGUSSON (WILLIAM), F. R. S., 
Professor of Surgery in King’s College, London, &c. 
A SYSTEM OF PRACTICAL SURGERY. Fourth American, from the third 
and enlarged London edition. In one large and beautifully printed octavo volume, of about seven 
hundred pages, with three hundred and ninety-three handsome illustrations. {Just Issued.) 
The most important subjects in connection with 
practical surgery which have been more recently 
brought under the nqtice of, and discussed by, the 
surgeons of Great Britain, are fully' and dispassion- 
ately considered by Mr. Fergusson, and that which 
was before wanting has now been supplied, so that 
we can now look upon it as a work on practical sur- 
gery instead of one on operative surgery' alone. 
There was some ground formerly for the complaint 
before alluded to, that it dwelt too exclusively on 
operative surgery; but this defect is now removed, 
and the-book is more than ever adapted for the pur- 
poses of the practitioner, whether he confines him- 
self more strictly to the operative department, or 
follows surgery on a more comprehensive scale.— 
Medical Times and Gazette. 
No work was ever written which more nearly- 
comprehended the necessities of the student and 
practitioner, and was more carefully arranged to 
that single purpose than this.—N. Y. Med. and Surg. 
Journal. 
The addition of many new pages makes this work 
more than ever indispensable to the student and prac- 
titioner.—Banking's Abstract. 
Among the numerous works flpon surgery pub- 
lished of late years, we know of none we value 
more highly than the one before us. It is perhaps 
the very best we have for a text-book and for ordi- 
nary reference, being concise and eminently practi- 
cal.—Southern Med. and Surg. Journal. 
GRAHAM (THOMAS), F. R. S., 
Professor of Chemistry in University College, London, &e. 
THE ELEMENTS OF CHEMISTRY. Including the application of the Science 
to the Arts. With numerous illustrations. With Notes and Additions, by Robert Bridges, 
M. D., &c. &c. Second American, from the second and enlarged Loudon edition 
PART I. {Lately Issued) large Bvo., 430 pages, 185 illustrations. 
PART 11. {Preparing) to match. 
The great changes which the science of chemistry has undergone within the last few years, ren- 
der a new edition of a treatise like the present, almost a new work. The author has devoted 
several years to the revision of his treatise, and has endeavored to embody in it every fact and 
inference of importance which has been observed .and recorded by the great body of chemical 
investigators who are so rapidly changing the face of the science. In this manner the work has 
been greatly increased in size, and the number of illustrations doubled; while the labors of the editor 
have been directed towards the introduction of such matters as have escaped the attention of the 
author, or as have arisen since the publication of the first portion of this edition in London, in 1850. 
Printed in handsome style, and at a very low price, it is therefore confidently presented to the pro- 
fession and the student as a very complete and thorough text-book of this important subject. 
A UNIVERSAL FORMULARY, containing the methods of Preparing and Ad- 
ministering Officinal and other Medicines. The whole adapted to Physicians and Pharmaceu- 
tists. Second Edition, thoroughly revised, with numerous additions, by Robert P. Thomas, 
M.D., Professor of Materia Medica in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. In one large and 
handsome octavo volume, of over six hundred pages, double columns. {Just Issued.) 
GRIFFITH (ROBERT E.), M. D., &c. 
It was a work requiring much perseverance, and 
when published was looked upon as by far the best 
work of its kind that had issued from the American 
press, being free of much of the trashy, and embrac- 
ing most of the noil-officinal formulae used or known 
in American, English, or French practice, arranged 
under the tieads of the several constituentdrugs, plac- 
ing the receipt under its more important constituent. 
Prof. Thomas has certainly “ improved,” as well as 
added to this Formulary, and has rendered it addition- 
ally deserving of the confidence of pharmaceutists 
and physicians.—American Journal of Pharmacy. 
We are happy to announce a new and improved 
edition of this, one of the most valuable and useful 
works that have emanated from an American pen. 
It would do credit to any country, and will be found 
of daily usefulness to practitioners of medicine; it is 
better adapted to their purposes than the dispensato- 
ries.— Southern Med. and Surg. Journal. 
A new edition of this well-known work, edited by 
R. P. Thomas, M D., affords occasion for renewing 
our commendation of so useful a handbook, which 
ought to be universally studied by medical men of 
every class, and made use of by way of reference by 
office pupils, as a standard authority. It has been 
much enlarged, and now condenses a vast amount 
of needful and necessary knowledge in small com- 
pass. The more of such books the better for the pro- 
fession and the public.— N. Y. Med. Gazette. 
It is one of the most useful books a country practi- 
tioner can possibly have in his possession—Medical 
Chronicle. 
The amount of useful, every-day matter, for a prac- 
ticing physician, is really immense.—Boston Med. 
and Surg. Journal. 
This is a work of six hundred and fifty one pages, 
embracing all on the subject of preparing and admi- 
nistering medicines that can be desired by the physi- 
cian and pharmaceutist.— Western Lancet. 
In short.it is a full and complete work of the kind, 
and should be in the hands of every physician and 
apothecary.— O. Med. and Surg. Journal 
We predict a great sale for this work, and we espe- 
cially recommend it to all medical teachers.—Rich- 
mond Stethoscope. 
This edition of Dr. Griffith’s work has been greatly 
improved by the revision and ample additions of Dr. 
Thomas, and is now, we believe, one of the most 
complete works of its kind in any language. The 
additions amount to about seventy pages, and no 
effort has been spared to include in them all the re- 
cent improvements which have been published iu 
medical journals, and systematic treatises. A work 
of this kind appears to us indispensable to the physi- 
cian, and there is none we can more cordially recom- 
mend.—N. Y. Journal of Medicine. 
MEDICAL BOTANY; or, a Description of all the more important Plants used 
in Medicine, and) of their Properties, Uses, and Modes of Administration. In one large octavo 
volume, of 704 pages, handsomely printed, with nearly 350 illustrations on wood. 
THE SAME AUTHOR. 
GREGORY (WILLIAM), F. R.S. E., 
LETTERS TO A CANDID INQUIRER ON ANIMAL MAGNETISM. 
In one neat volume, royal 12m0., extra cloth, pp. 384. 16 
BLANCHARD & LEA’S MEDICAL 
GROSS (SAMUEL D.), M. D., 
Professor of Surgery in the University of Louisville, &c. 
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE DISEASES, INJURIES, AND 
malformations of the urinary bladder, the prostate gland, and 
THE URETHRA. Second Edition, revised and much enlarged, with one hundred and eighty- 
four illustrations. In one large and very handsome octavo volume, of over nine hundred pages. 
{Now Heady.) 
The author has availed himself of the opportunity afforded by a call for a new edition of this 
work, to thoroughly revise and render it in every respect worthy, so far as in his power, of the very 
flattering reception which has been accorded to it by the profession. The new matter thus added 
amounts to almost one-third of the original work, while the number of illustrations has been nearly 
doubled. These additions pervade every portion of the work, which thus has rather the aspect of 
a new treatise a new edition. In its present improved form, therefore, it may confidently be 
presented as a complete and reliable storehouse of information on this important class of diseases, 
and as in every way fitted to maintain the position which it has acquired in Europe and in this 
counlr}', as the standard of authority on the subjects treated of. 
On the appearance of the first edition of this work, 
the leading English medical review predicted that it 
would have a “ permanent place in the literature of 
surgery worthy to rank with the best works of the 
present age.” This prediction has been amply ful- 
filled. Dr. Gross’s treatise has been found to sup- 
ply completely the want which has been felt ever 
since the elevation of surgery to the rank of science, 
of a good practical treatisg on the diseases of the 
bladder and its accessory organs. Philosophical in 
its design, methodical in its arrangement, ample and 
sound in its practical details, it may in truth be said 
to leave scarcely anything to be desired on so im- 
portant a subject, and with the additions and modi- 
fications resulting from future discoveries and im- 
provements, it will probably remain one of the most 
valuable works on this subject so long as the science 
of medicine shall exist,—Boston Med. and Surg. 
Journal, June 7, 1855. 
away this reproach ; and so completely has the task 
been fulfilled, that we venture to predict for Dr. 
Gross’s treatise a permanent place in the literature 
of surgery, worthy to rank with the best works of 
the present age. Not merely is the matter good,, 
but the getting up of the volume is most creditable 
to transatlantic enterprise; the paper and print 
would do credit to a first-rate London establishment; 
and the numerous wood-cuts which illustrate it, de- 
monstrate that America is making rapid advances in 
this department of art. We have, indeed, unfeigned 
pleasure in congratulating all concerned in this pub- 
lication, on the result of their labours; and expe- 
rience a feeling something like what animates a long- 
expectant husbandman, who, oftentimes disappointed 
by the produce of a favorite field, is at last agree- 
ably surprised by a stately crop which may bear 
comparison with any of its former rivals. The 
grounds of our high appreciation of the work will 
be obvious as we proceed; and we doubt not that 
the present facilities for obtaining American books 
will induce many of our readers to verify our re- 
commendation by their own perusal of it.—British 
and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review. 
A volume replete with truths and principles of the 
utmost value in the investigation of these diseases.— 
American Medical Journal. 
Dr. Gross has brought all his learning, experi- 
ence, tact, and judgment to the task, and has pro- 
duced a work worthy of his high reputation. We 
feel perfectly safe in recommending it to our read- 
ers as a monograph unequalled in interest and 
practical value by any other on the subject in our 
language.—Western Journal of Med. and Surg. 
Whoever will peruse the vast amount of valuable 
practical information it contains, and which we 
have been unable even to notice, will, we think, 
agree with us, that there is no work in the English 
language which can make any just pretensions to 
be its equal.—N. Y. Journal of Medicine. 
It has remained for an American writer to wipe 
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON FOREIGN BODIES IN THE AIR-PAS- 
SAGES. Iu one handsome octavo volume, with illustrations, pp. 468. 
the same author. {Just Issued). 
A very elaborate work. It is a complete summary 
of the whole subject, and will be a useful book of 
reference.—British and Foreign Medico-Chirurg. 
Review. 
A highly valuablebook of reference on a most im- 
portant subject in the practice of medicine. We 
Conclude by recommending it to our readers, fully 
persuaded that its perusal will afford them much 
practical information well conveyed, evidently de- 
rived from considerable experience and deduced from 
an ample collection of facts. Dublin Quarterly 
Journal, May, 1855. 
In this valuable monograph Dr. Gross has cer- 
tainly struck a new lead in Surger}r, and is entitled 
to the credit of having illustrated and systematized 
a most interesting and hitherto a most neglected de- 
partment of surgical pathology and practice.—St. 
Louis Med. and Surg. Journal, May, 1855. 
Surgical authors, isolated reports in medical pe- 
riodicals and modern surgeons ‘ blend their common 
toil” to make a book which exhausts the subject, 
and must forever remain the standard work on the 
management of this accident.—Buffalo Med. Journ. 
AVe consider this work one of the most important 
of the recent additions to practical surgery. Con- 
taining all that has been recorded relating to the 
class of accidents of which it treats, admirably 
arranged and systematized, it sliou'd find a place in 
every medical library.—Montreal Med. Chronicle. 
A SYSTEM OF SURGERY; Diagnostic, Pathological, Therapeutic, and Opera- 
tive. With very numerous engravings on wood. 
the same author. (Preparing.) 
ELEMENTS OF PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; illustrated by colored En- 
graving's, and two hundred and fifty wood-cuts. Second edition, thoroughly revised and greatly 
enlarged. In one very large and handsome imperial octavo volume, pp. 822. 
THE SAME AUTHOR. 
We recommend it as the most complete, and, on 
the whole, the least defective compilation on the 
subject in the English language.—Brit, and For. 
Med. Journal. 
It is altogether the most complete exposition of 
Pathological Anatomy in our language.—American 
Journal of Medical Sciences. 
It is the most complete and useful systematic work 
on Pathological Anatomy in the English language. 
The colored engravings and wood-outs are exeeed- 
inglv well executed, and the entire getting up of the 
work does much credit to the enterprising publishers. 
We regard it as one of the most valuable works 
ever issued from the American press, and it does 
great honor alike to the author, and the country of 
his birth.—N. Y. Journal of Medicine. 
We commend it to the attention of the profession 
as one of the best extant up-<su the subject on which 
it treats.—Southern Journal Med. and Pharmacy. AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS. 
GLUGE (GOTTLIEB), M.D., 
Professor of Physiology and Pathological Anatomy in the University of Brussels, &c. 
AN ATLAS OF PATHOLOGICAL HISTOLOGY. Translated, with Notes 
and Additions, by Joseph Leidy, M. D., Professor of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylva- 
nia. In one volume, very large imperial quarto, with three hundred and twenty figures, plain 
and colored, on twelve copperplates. 
This being, as far as we know, the only work in 
which pathological histology is separately treated 
of in a comprehensive manner, it will, we think, for 
this reason, be of infinite service to those who desire 
to investigate the subject systematically, and who 
have felt the ditnculty of arranging in their mind 
the unconnected observations of a great number of 
authors. The development of the morbid tissues, 
and the formation of abnormal products, may now 
be followed and studied with the same ease and 
satisfaction as the best arranged system of phy- 
siology.—American Med. Journal. 
GARDNER (D. PEREIRA), M. D. 
MEDICAL CHEMIST BY, for the use of Students and the Profession: being a 
Manual of the Science, with its Applications to Toxicology, Physiology, Therapeutics, Hygiene, 
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, HASSE (C. E.), M. D. 
AN ANATOMICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE DISEASES OF RESPIRA- 
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HARRISON (JOHN), M.D. 
AN ESSAY TOWARDS A CORRECT THEORY OF THE NERVOUS 
SYSTEM. In one octavo volume, 292 pages. 
HUNTER (JOHN). 
TREATISE ON THE VENEREAL DISEASE. With copious Additions, by 
Dr. Ph. Ricord, Surgeon to the Venereal Hospital of Paris. Edited, wilh additional Notes, by 
F. J. Bumstead, M. D. In one octavo volume, with plates {Now Ready.) S3P See Ricord. 
Also, HUNTER’S COMPLETE WORKS, with Memoir, Notes, &c. &c. In four neat octavo 
volumes, with plates. 
HUGHES (H. M.), M. D., 
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A CLINICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE PRACTICE OF AUSCULTA- 
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American from the Second and Improved London Edition. In one royal 12mo. vol. pp 304. 
It has been carefully revised throughout. Some small portions have been erased; much has 
been, I trust, amended; and a great deal of new matter has been added; so thdrt, though funda- 
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HORNER (WILLIAM E.), M. D., 
Professor of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania. 
SPECIAL ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY. Eighth edition. Estepsively 
revised and modified. In two large octavo volumes, of more than one thousand pages, hand- 
somely printed, with over three hundred illustrations. 
This work has enjoyed a thorough and laborious revision on the part of the author, with the 
view of bringing it fully up to the existing state of knowledge on the subject of general and special 
anatomy. To adapt it more perfectly to the wants of the student, he has introduced a large number 
of additional wood-engravings, illustrative of the objects described, while the publishers have en- 
deavored to render the mechanical execution of the work worthy of the extended reputation which 
it has acquired. The demand which has carried it to an EIGHTH EDITION is a sufficient evi- 
dence of the value of the work, and of its adaptation to the wants of the student and professional 
reader. 
HOBLYN (RICHARD DJ, A. M . 
A DICTIONARY OF THE TERMS USED IN MEDICINE AND THE 
COLLATERAL SCIENCES. New and much improved American Edition. Revised, with 
numerous Additions, from the last London edition, by Isaac Hays, M. D., &c. In one large 
royal 12mo. volume, of over four hundred pages, double columns. (Nearly Heady.) 
In passing this work a second time through the press, the editor has subjected it to a very tiro- 
rough revision, making such additions as the progress of science has rendered desirable, and sup- 
plying any omissions that may have previously existed. As a concise and convenient Dictionary 
of Medical Terms, at an exceedingly low price, it will therefore be found of great value to the stu- 
dent and practitioner. 
JONES (T. WHARTON), F, R. S., &c. 
THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF OPHTHALMIC MEDICINE 
AND SURGERY. Edited by Isaac Hays, M. D., &c. In one very neat volume, large royai 
12m0., of 529 pages, with four plates, plain or colored, and ninety-eight wood-cuts. 
The work amply sustains, in every point the al- 
ready high reputation of the author as an ophthalmic 
surgeon as well as a physiologist and pathologist. 
The book is evidently the result of much labor and 
research, and has been written with the greatest 
care and attention. We entertain little doubt that 
this book will become what its author hoped it 
might become, a manual for daily reference and 
consultation by the student and the general practi- 
tioner. The work is marked by that correctness, 
clearness, and precision of style which distinguish 
all the productions of the learned author.—British 
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BLANCHARD & D-EA’S MEDICAL 
JONES (C. HANDFI ELD), F. R. S., Sc EDWARD H. SIEVEKING, M.D., 
Assistant Physicians and Lecturers in St. Mary’s Hospital, London. 
A MANUAL OF PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY. First American Edition, 
Revised. With three hundred and ninety-seven handsome wood engravings. In one large and 
beautiful octavo volume of nearly seven hundred and fifty pages. {Just Issued.) 
In a work like the present, intended as a text-book for the student of pathology, accurate engrav- 
ings of the various results of morbid action are of the greatest assistance. The American pub- 
lishers have, therefore, considered that the value of the work might be enhanced by increasing the 
number of illustrations, and, with this object, many wood-cuts, from the best authorities, have been 
introduced, increasing the number from one hundred and sixty-seven, in the London Edition, to 
three hundred and ninety-seven in this. The selection of these wood-cuts has been made by a 
competent member of the profession, who has supervised the progress of the work through the 
press, with the view of securing an accurate reprint, and of correcting such errors as had escaped 
the attention of the authors. 
With these improvements, the volume is therefore presented in the hope of supplying the ac- 
knowledged want of a work which, within a moderate compass, should embody a condensed and 
accurate digest of the present state of pathological science, as extended by recent microscopical, 
chemical, and physiological researches. 
Asa concise text-book, containing, in a condensed 
form, a complete outline of what is known in the 
domain of Pathological Anatomy, it is perhaps the 
best work in the English language. Its great merit 
consists in its completeness and brevity, and in this 
respect it supplies a great desideratum in our lite- 
rature. Heretofore the student of pathology was 
obliged to glean from a great number of monographs, 
and the field was so extensive that but few cultivated 
it with any degree of success. The authors of the 
present work have sought to corrrct this defect by 
placing before the reader a summary of ascertained 
facts, together with the opinions of the most eminent 
pathologists both of the Old and New World. As a 
simple work of reference, therefore, it is of great 
value to the student of pathological anatomy, and 
should be in every physician’s library.— Western 
Lancet, 
authors have not attempted to intrude new views on 
their professional brethren, but simply to lay before 
them, what has long been wanted, an outline of the 
present condition of pathological anatomy. In this 
they have been completely successful. The work is 
one of the best compilations which we have ever 
perused. The opinions and discoveries of ail the 
leading pathologists and physiologists are engrossed, 
so that by reading any subject treated in the book 
you have a synopsis of the views of the most ap- 
proved authors.—Charleston Medical Journal and 
Review. 
We have no hesitation in recommending it as 
worthy of careful and thorough study by every mem- 
ber of the profession, old, or young.—N. W, Med. 
and Surg. Journal. 
From the casual examination we have given we 
are inclined to regard it as a text-book, plain, ra- 
tional, and intelligible, such a book as the practical 
man needs for daily reference. For this reason it 
will be likely to be largely useful, as it suits itself 
to those busy men who have little time for minute 
investigation, and prefer a summary to an elaborate 
treatise.—Buffaio Medical Journal. 
We urge upon our readers and the profession gene- 
rally the importance of informing themselves in re- 
gard to modern views of pathology, and recommend 
to them to procure the work before us as the best 
means of obtaining this information.—Stethoscope. 
In offering the above titled work to the public, the 
KIRKES (WILLIAM SENHOUSE), M. D., 
Demonstrator of Morbid Anatomy at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, &c.; and 
JAMES PAGET, F. R. S., 
Lecturer on General Anatomy and Physiology in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. 
A MANUAL OF PHYSIOLOGY. Second American, from the second and 
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handsome royal 12mo. volume, pp. 550. (Just Issued.) 
In the present edition, the Manual of Physiology 
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science, and fully sustains the reputation which it 
has already so deservedly attained. We consider 
the work of MM. Kirlces and Paget to constitute one 
of the very best handbooks of Physiology we possess 
—presenting just such an outline of the science, com- 
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admitted principles, as the student requires during 
his attendance upon a course of lectures, or for re- 
ference whilst preparing for examination.— Am. 
Medical Journal. 
We deed only say, that, without entering into dis- 
cussions of unsettled questions, it contains all the 
recent improvements in this department of medical 
science. For the student beginning this study, and 
the practitioner who has but leisure to refresh his 
memory, this book is invaluable, as it contains all 
that it is important to know, without special details, 
which are read with interest only by those who 
would make a specialty, or desire to possess a criti- 
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Journal. 
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hands of the student.—London Medical Gazette. 
Particularly adapted to those who desire to pos- 
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We conscientiously recommend it as an admira- 
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First American edition, with Notes and Additions, by Prof. Walter R. Johnson. In two hand- 
some octavo volumes, printed and illustrated in the highest style of art, with about five hundred 
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KNAPP (F.), PH. D., &c. 
TREATISE ON PHYSIOLOGY. With numerous Illustrations. Translated 
from the French by F. G. Smith, M. D., Professor of Institutes of Medicine in the Pennsylvania 
Medical College. (Preparing.) 
LONGET (F. A.) AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS. 
LEHMANN (G. C.) 
PHYSIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY. Translated by Georgs E. Day, M. D., 
and edited by Prof. R- E. Rogers, of the University of Pennsylvania. In two large octavo 
volumes, with handsome illustrations. (Nearly Ready.) 
This great work, universally recognized as the most complete and authoritative exposition of its 
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indispensable to a work of this character. It will be further improved by the distribution in the 
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Appendix, while a number of illustrations will be introduced from “ Funke’s Atlas of Physiological 
Chemistry.” The publishers, therefore, trust that it will be found a complete aud accurate edition, 
and in every respect worthy of the reputation of the work. 
The progress of research in this department is so 
rapid, that Prof. Lehmann’s treatise must be re- 
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Simon; and all who desire to possess a systematic 
work on Physiological Chemistry by a man who is 
thoroughly qualified, both by his physiological and 
chemical acquirements, by his own eminence as an 
experimentalist, and by the philosophic impartiality 
of his habits of thought, to afford a comprehensive 
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time in attaching themselves to the Society by which 
it is in course of publication.—British and Foreign 
Medico-Chirurgical Review. 
The work of Lehmann stands unrivalled as tjie 
most comprehensive book of reference and informa- 
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it treats.—Edinburg Monthly Journal of Medical 
Science, 
LAWRENCE (W.), F. R. S., &c. 
A TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THE EYE. A new edition, edited, 
with numerous additions, and 243 illustrations, by Isaac Hays, M. D., Surgeon to Wills Hospi- 
tal, &c. In one very large and handsome octavo volume, of 950 pages, strongly bound in leather 
with raised bands. (.Lately Issued.) 
This work is so universally recognized as the standard authority on the subject, that the pub- 
lishers in presenting this new edition have only to remark that in its preparation the editor has 
carefully revised every portion, introducing additions and illustrations wherever the advance of 
science has rendered them necessary or desirable. In this manner it will be found to con- 
tain over one hundred pages more than the last edition, while the list of wood-engravings 
has been increased by sixty-seven figures, besides numerous improved illustrations substituted 
for such as were deemed imperfect or unsatisfactory. The various important contributions to 
ophthalmological science, recently made by Dalrymple, Jacob, Walton, Wilde, Cooper, &c., 
both in the form of separate treatises and contributions to periodicals, have been carefully 
examined by the editor, and, combined with the results of his own experience, have been 
freely introduced throughout the volume, rendering it a complete and thorough exponent of 
the most advanced state of the subject. 
In a future number we shall notice more at length 
this admirable treatise —the safest guide and most 
comprehensive work of reference, which is within 
the reach of all classes of the profession.—Stetho- 
scope, March, 1854. 
oetavo pages— has enabled both author and editor to 
do justice to all the details of this subject, and con- 
dense in this single volume the present state of our 
knowledge of the whole science in this department, 
whereby its practical value cannot be excelled. We 
heartily commend it, especially as a book of refe- 
rence, indispensable in every medical library. The 
additions of the American editor very greatly en- 
hance the value of the work, exhibiting the learning 
and experience of Dr. Hays, in the light in which he 
ought to be held, as a standard authority on all sub- 
jects appertaining to this specialty, to which he has 
rendered so many valuable contributions.—N. Y. 
Medical Gazette. 
This standard text-book on the department of 
which it treats, has not been superseded, by any or 
all of the numerous publications on the subject 
heretofore issued. Nor with the multiplied improve- 
ments of Dr. Hays, the American editor, is it at all 
likely that this great work will cease to merit the 
confidence and preference of students or practition- 
ers. Its ample extent—nearly one thousand large 
LEE (ROBERT), M. D., F. R. S., See. 
CLINICAL MIDWIFERY; comprising the Histories of Five Hundred and 
Forty-five Cases of Difficult, Preternatural, and Complicated Labor, with Commentaries. From 
the second London edition. In one royal 12mo. volume, extra cloth, of 238 pages. 
LUDLOW (J. L.), M. D., 
Lecturer on Clinical Medicine at the Philadelphia Almshouse, &c. 
A MANUAL OF EXAMINATIONS upon Anatomy and Physiology, Surgery, 
Practice of Medicine, Chemistry, Obstetrics, Materia Medica, Pharmacy, and Therapeutics. 
Designed for Students of Medicine throughout the United States. A new edition, revised and 
extensively improved. In one large royal 12mo. volume, with several hundred illustrations. 
{Preparing.) 
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LECTURES ON THE OPERATIONS OP SURGERY, and on Diseases and 
Accidents requiring Operations. Edited, with numerous Additions and Alterations, by T. D. 
Mutter, M. D. In one large and handsome octavo volume, of 566 pages, with 216 woochcuts. 
LALLEMAND (M.). 
THE CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, AND TREATMENT OF SPERMATOR- 
RHCEA. Translated and edited by Henry J. McDougal. In one volume, octavo, 320 pages. 
Second American edition. (Just Issued.) BLANCHARD & LEA’S MEDICAL 
LA ROCHE (R.), M. D., Sec. 
PNEUMONIA; its Supposed Connection, Pathological and Etiological, with Au- 
tumnal Fever*, including an Inquiry into the Existence and Morbid Agency of Malaria. In one 
handsome octavo volume, extra cloth, of 500 pages. 
A more simple, clear, and forcible exposition of 
the groundless nature and dangerous tendency of 
certain pathological and etiological heresies, has 
seldom been presented to our notice.—N. Y. Journal 
of Medicine and Collateral Science. 
This work should be carefully studied by Southern 
physicians, embodying as it does the reflections of 
an original thinker and close observer bn a subject 
peculiarly their own.— Virginia Med. and Surgical 
Journal. 
The author had prepared us to expect a treatise 
from him, by his brief papers on kindred topics in 
the periodical press, and yet in the work before us 
he has exhibited an amount of industry and learning, 
research and ability, beyond what we are accustomed 
to discover in modern medical writers; while his 
own extensive opportunities for observation and 
experience have been improved by the most laudable 
diligence, and display a familiarity with the whole 
subject in every aspect, which commands both our 
respect and confidence. As a corrective of prevalent 
and mischievous error, sought to be propagated by 
novices and innovators, we could wish that I)r. La 
Roche’s book could be widely read.—N. Y. Medical 
Gazette. 
THE SAME AUTHOR. (JltSt Heady.) 
YELLOW EEYER, considered in its Historical, Pathological, Etiological, and 
Therapeutical Relations. Including a Sketch of the Disease as it has occurred in Philadelphia 
from 1699 to 1854, with an examination of the connections between it and the fevers known under 
the same name in other parts of temperate as well as in tropical regions. In two large and 
handsome octavo volume,?. 
The publishers are happy in being able to announce the speedy appearance of this great work. 
As the result of many years of study and observation, and as a complete resume of all that has been 
written on the subject, it will at once take its place as the standard authority and work of reference 
on the important questions brought under consideration. 
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LARDNER (DIONYSIUS), D. C. L., &c. 
MACKENZIE (W.), M. D., 
Surgeon Oculist in Scotland in ordinary to Her Majesty, &c. &c. 
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON DISEASES AND INJURIES OF THE 
EYE. To which is prefixed an Anatomical Introduction explanatory of a Horizontal Section of 
the Human Eyeball, by Thomas Wharton Jones, F. R. S. From the Fourth Revised and En- 
larged London Edition. With Notes and Additions by Addinell Hewson, M. D , Physician to 
Wills Hospital, fee. fee. In one verylarge and handsome octavo volume, with plates and numerous 
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The reputation which this work has universally attained will be enhanced by the present edition. 
Besides the thorough revision by the author which it has enjoyed in recently passing through the 
press in London, the additions by the editor will embrace whatever is necessary to adapt it com- 
pletely to the wants of the American practitioner, constituting it a library of Ophthalmic Medicine 
and Surgery. 
The treatise of Dr. Mackenzie indisputably holds 
the first place, and forms, in respect of learning and 
research, an Encyclopaedia unequalled in extent by 
any other work of the kind, either English orforeign. 
—Dixon on Diseases of the Dye. 
accordance with the advances in the science which 
have been made of late years. Nothing worthy of 
repetition upon any branch of the subject appears to 
have escaped the author’s notice. We consider it 
the duty of every one who has the love of his profes- 
sion and the welfare of his patient at heart, to mates 
himself familiar with this the most complete work 
in the English language upon the diseases of the eye. 
—Med. Times and Gazette. 
Few modern hooks on any department of medicine 
or surgery have met with such extended circulation, 
or have procured for their authors a like amount of 
European celebrity. The immense research which 
it displayed, the thorough acquaintance with the 
subject, practically as well as theoretically, and the 
able manner in which the author’s stores of learning 
and experience wfcre rendered available for general 
use, at once procured for the first edition, as well on 
the continent as in this country, that high position 
as a standard work which each successive edition 
has more firmly established, in spite of the attrac- 
tions of several rivals of no mean ability. This, the 
fourth edition, has been in a great measure re-writ- 
ten ; new matter, to the extent of one hundred and 
fifty pages, has been added, and in several instances 
formerly expressed opinions have been modified in 
The fourth edition of this standard work will no 
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tions. It is unnecessary to say a word in its praise, 
for the verdict has already been passed upon it by 
the most competent judges, and “ Mackenzie on the 
Eye” has justly obtained a reputation which it is 
no figure of speech to call world-wide.—British and 
Foreign Medico-C hirurgical Review. 
This new edition of Dr. Mackenzie’s celebrated 
treatise on diseases of the eye, is truly a miracle of 
industry and learning. We need scarcely say that 
he has entirely exhausted the subject of his specialty. 
—Dublin Quarterly Journal. AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS. 
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MEIGS (CHARLES D.), M. D., 
Professor of Obstetrics, &c. in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. 
ON THE NATURE, SIGNS, AND TREATMENT OF CHILDBED 
FEVER,. In a Series of Letters addressed to the Students of his Class. In one handsome 
octavo volume, of three hundred and sixty-tive pages. (Now Ready.) 
Tiie instructive and interesting author of this 
work, whose previous labors in the department of 
medicine which he so sedulously cultivates, have 
placed his countrymen under deep and abiding obli- 
gations, again challenges their admiration in the 
fresh and vigorous, attractive and racy pages before 
us. It is a delectable book. * * # This treatise 
upon child-bed fevers will have an extensive sale, 
being destined, as it deserves, to find a place in the 
library of every practitioner who scorns to lag in the 
rear of his brethren.—Nashville Journal of Medi- 
eine and Surgery. 
This book will add more to his fame than either 
of those which bear his name. Indeed we doubt 
whether any material improvement will be made on 
the teachings of this volume for a century to come, 
since it is so eminently practical, and based on pro- 
found knowledge of the science, and consummate 
skill in the art of healing, and ratified by an ample 
and extensive experience, such as few men have the 
industry or good fortune to acquire.—N. Y. Med. 
Gazette, 
WOMAN : HER DISEASES AND THEIR REMEDIES. A Series of Lec- 
tures to his Class. Third and Improved edition. In one lame and beautifully printed octavo 
volume. {.List Issued. Revised and enlarged to 1854.) pp. G72. 
THE SAME AUTHOR. 
The gratifying appreciation of his labors, as evinced by the exhaustion of two large impressions 
of this work within a few years, has not been lost upon the author, who has endeavored in every 
w'ay to render it worthy of the favor with which it has been received. The opportunity thus 
afforded for a second revision has been improved, and the work is now presented as in every way 
superior to its predecessors, additions and alterations having been made whenever the advance of 
science has rendered them desirable. The typographical execution of the work will also be found 
to have undergone a similar improvement and the work is now confidently presented as in every 
way worthy the position it has acquired as the standard American text-book on .the Diseases of 
Females. 
It contains a vast amount of practical knowledge, 
by one wiio has accurately observed and retained 
the experience of many years, and who tells the re- 
sult in a free, familiar, and pleasant manner.—Dub- 
lin Quarterly Journal. 
There is an off-hand fervor, a glow, and a warm- 
heartedness infecting the effort of Dr. Meigs, which 
is entirely captivating, and which absolutely hur- 
ries the reader through from beginning to end. Be- 
sides, the book teems with solid instruction, and 
it shows the very highest evidence of ability, viz., 
the clearness with which the information is pre- 
sented. We know of no better test of one’s under- 
standing a subject than the evidence of the power 
of lucidly explaining it. The most elementary, as 
well as the obscurest subjects, under the pencil of 
Prof. Meigs, are isolated and made to stand out in 
such bold relief, as to produce distinct impressions 
upon the mind and memory of the reader.— The 
Charleston Med. Journal. 
Professor Meigs has enlarged and amended this 
great work, for such it unquestionably is, having 
parsed the ordeal of criticism at home and abroad, 
but been improved thereby ; for in this new edition 
the author has introduced real improvements, and 
increased the value and utility of the book im- 
measurably. It presents so many novel, bright, 
and sparkling thoughts; such an exuberance of new 
ideas on almost every page, that we confess our- 
selves to have become enamored with the book 
and its author; and cannot withhold our congratu- 
lations from our Philadelphia confreres, that such a 
teacher is in their service.—N. Y. Med. Gazette. 
OBSTETRICS: THE SCIENCE AND THE ART. Second edition, revised 
and improved. With one hundred and thirty-one illustrations. In one beautifully printed octavo 
volume, of seven hundred and fifty-two large pages. {Lately Published.) 
THE SAME AUTHOR. 
The rapid demand for a second edition of this work is a sufficient evidence that it has supplied 
a desideratum of the profession, notwithstanding the numerous treatises on the same subject which 
have appeared within the last few years. Adopting a system of his own, the author has combined 
the leading principles of his interesting and difficult subject, with a thorough exposition of its rules 
of practice, presenling the results of long and extensive experience and of familiar acquaintance 
with all the modern writers on this department of medicine. As an American Trealise on Mid- 
wifery, W’hich has at once assumed the position of a classic, it possesses peculiar claims to the at- 
tention and study of the practitioner and student, while the numerous alterations and revisions 
which it has undergone in the present edition are shown by the great enlargement of the work, 
which is not only increased as to the size of the page, but also in the number. 
the same author. (Now Ready.) 
A TREATISE ON ACUTE AND CHRONIC DISEASES OF TIIE NECK 
OF THE UTERUS. With numerous plates, drawn and colored from nature in the highest 
style of art. In one handsome octavo volume, extra clolh. 
The object of the author in this work has been to present in a small compass the practical results 
of his long experience in this important and distressing class of diseases. The great changes intro- 
duced into practice, and the accessions to our knowledge on the subject, within the last few years, 
resulting from the use of the metroscope, brings within the ordinary practice of every physician 
numerous cases which were formerly regarded as incurable, and renders of great value a work like 
the present combining practical directions for diagnosis and treatment with an ample series of illus- 
trations, copied accurately from colored drawings made by the author, after nature. 
OBSERVATIONS ON CERTAIN OF THE DISEASES OF YOUNG 
CHILDREN. In one handsome octavo volume, of 214 pages. 
THE SAME AUTHOR. 22 
BLANCHARD & LEA’S MEDICAL 
MACLISE (JOSEPH), SURGEON. 
SURGICAL ANATOMY. Forming one volume, very large imperial quarto. 
With sixty-eight large and splendid Plates, drawn in the best style and beautifully colored. Con- 
taining one hundred and ninety Figures, many of them the size of life. Together with copious 
and explanatory letter-press. Strongly and handsomely bound in extra cloth, being one of the 
cheapest and best executed Surgica works as yet issued in this country. 
Copies can be sent by mail, in five parts, done up in stout covers. 
This great work being now concluded, the publishers confidently present it to the attention of the 
profession as worthyln every respect of their approbation and patronage. No complete work ot 
the kind has yet been published in the English language, and it therefore will supply a want long 
felt in this country of an accurate and comprehensive Atlas of Surgical Anatomy to which the 
student and practitioner can at all times refer, to ascertain the exact relative'position ot the various 
portions of the human frame towards each other and to the surface, as well as their abnormal de- 
viations. The importance of such a work to the student in the absence of anatomical material, and 
to the practitioner when about attempting an operation, is evident, while the price of the book, not- 
withstanding the large size, beauty, and finish of the very numerous illustrations, is so low as to 
place it within the reach of every member of the profession. The publishers therefore confidently 
anticipate a very extended circulation for this magnificent work. 
One of the greatest artistic triumphs of the age 
in Surgical Anatomy.—British American Medical 
Journal. 
Too much cannot be said in its praise; indeed, 
we have not language to do it justice.—Ohio Medi- 
cal and Surgical Journal. 
The most admirable surgical atlas we have seen. 
To the practitioner deprived of demonstrative dis- 
sections upon the human subject, it is an invaluable 
companion.—N. J. Medical Reporter. 
The most accurately engraved and beautifully 
colored plates we have ever seen in an American 
book—one of the best and cheapest surgical works 
ever published.—Buffalo Medical Journal. 
It is very rare that so elegantly printed, so well 
illustrated, and so useful a work, is offered at so 
moderate a price.—Charleston Medical Journal. 
Its plates can boast a superiority which places 
them almost beyond the reach of competition.—Medi- 
cal Examiner. 
Every practitioner, we think, should have a work 
of this kind within reach.—Southern Medical and 
Surgical Journal. 
No such lithographic illustrations of surgical re- 
gions have hitherto, we think, been given.—Boston 
Medical and Surgical Journal. 
As a surgical anatomist, Mr. Maclise has proba- 
bly no superior.—British and Foreign Medico-Chi- 
rurgical Review. 
Of great value to the student engaged in dissect- 
ing, and to the surgeon at a distance from the means 
of keeping up his anatomical knowledge.—Medical 
Times. 
The mechanical execution cannot be excelled.— 
Transylvania Medical Journal. 
A work which has no parallel in point of accu- 
racy and cheapness in the English language.—N. Y. 
Journal of Medicine. 
To all engaged in the study or practice of their 
profession, such a work is almost indispensable.— 
Dublin Quarterly Medical Journal. 
No practitioner whose means will admit should 
fail to possess it.—Ranking’s Abstract. ' 
Country practitioners will find these plates of im- 
mense value.—N. Y. Medical Gazette. 
We are extremely gratified to announce to the 
profession the completion of this truly magnificent 
work, which, as a whole, certainly stands unri- 
valled, both for accuracy of drawing, beauty of 
coloring, and all the requisite explanations of the 
subject in hand.—The New Orleans Medical and 
Surgical Journal. 
This is by far the ablest work on Surgical Ana- 
tomy that has come under our observation. We 
know of no other work that would justify a stu- 
dent, in any degree, for neglect of actual dissec- 
tion. In those sudden emergencies that so often 
arise, and which require the instantaneous command 
of minute anatomical knowledge, a work of this kind 
keeps the details of the dissecting-room perpetually 
fresh in the memory.—The Western Journal of Medi- 
cine and Surgery. 
Jlggr* The very low price at which this work 
require an extended sale to compensate the pul 
ork is furnished, and the beauty of its execution, 
publishers for the heavy expenses incurred. 
PRINCIPLES OF PHYSICS AND METEOROLOGY. Edited, with Addi- 
tions, by R. Eglesfeld Griffith, M. D. In one large and handsome octavo volume, extra 
cloth, with 550 wood-cuts, and two colored plates, pp. 636. 
MULLER (PROFESSOR J.), M. D 
The Physics of Mailer is a work superb, complete, 
unique: the greatest want known to English Science 
eould not have been better supplied. The work is 
of surpassing interest. The value of this contribu- 
tion to the scientific records of this country may be 
duly estimated by the fact that the cost of the origi- 
nal drawings and engravings alone has exceeded the 
1 sura of £2,000.—Lancet, 
MAYNE (JOHN), M. D., M. R. C. S. 
A DISPENSATORY AND THERAPEUTICAL REMEMBRANCER. Com- 
prising the entire lists of Materia Medica, with every Practical Formula contained in the three 
British Pharmacopoeias. With relative Tables subjoined, illustrating, by upwards of six hundred 
and sixty examples, the Extemporaneous Forms and Combinations suitable for the different 
Medicines. Edited, with the addition of the Formulae of the United States Pharmacopoeia, by 
R. Eglesfeld Griffith, M. D. In one 12mo. volume, extra cloth, of over 300 large pages. 
MATTEUCCI (CARLO). 
LECTURES ON THE PHYSICAL PHENOMENA OF LIVING BEINGS. 
Edited by J. Pereiea, M. D. In one neat royal 12mo. volume, extra cloth, with cuts, 388 pages. AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS. 
23 
MILLER (JAMES), F. R. S. E., 
Professor of Surgery in the University of Edinburgh, &c. 
PRINCIPLES OF SURGERY. Third American, from the second and revised 
Edinburgh edition. Revised, with Additions, by F. W. Sargent, M. D., author of “ Minor Sur- 
gery,” &c. In one large and very beautiful volume, of seven hundred and fifty-two pages, with 
two hundred and forty exquisite illustrations on wood. 
This edition is far superior, both in the abundance 
and quality of its material, to any of the preceding. 
We hope it will be extensively redd, and the sound 
principles which are herein taught treasured up for 
future application. The work takes rank with 
Watson's Practice of Physic; it certainly does not 
fall behind that great work in soundness of princi- 
ple or depth of reasoning and research. No physi- 
cian who values his reputation, or seeks the interests 
of his clients, can acquit himself before his God and 
the world without making himself familiar with the 
sound and philosophical views developed in the fore- 
going book.—New Orleans Med. and Surg. Journal. 
Without doubt the ablest exposition of the prin- 
ciples of that branch of the healing art in any lan- 
guage. This opinion, deliberately formed after a 
careful study of the first edition, we have had ik> 
cause to change on examining the second. This 
edition has undergone thorough revision by the au- 
thor; many expressions have been modified, and a 
mass of new matter introduced. The book is got up 
in the finest style, and is an evidence of the progress 
of typography in our country.—Charleston Medical 
Journal and Review. 
We recommend it to both student and practitioner, 
feeling assured that as it now comes to us, it pre- 
sents the most satisfactory exposition of the modern 
doctrines of the principles of surgery to be found in 
any volume in any language.—N. Y. Journal of 
Medicine. 
the same AUTHOR. (Lately Published.) 
THE PRACTICE OF SURGERY. Third American from the second Edin- 
burgh edition. Edited, with Additions, by F. W. Sargent, M. D , one of the Surgeons to Will’s 
Hospital, &c. Illustrated by three hundred and nineteen engravings on wood. In one large 
octavo volume, of over seven hundred pages. 
No encomium of ours could add to the popularity 
of Miller’s Surgery. Its reputation in this country 
is unsurpassed by that of any other work, and, when 
taken in connection with the author’s Principles of 
Surgery, constitutes a whole, without reference to 
which no conscientious surgeon would be willing 
to practice his art The additions, by Dr. Sargent, 
have materially enhanced the value of the work.— 
Southern Medical and Surgical Journal. 
By the almost unanimous voice of the profession, 
his works, both on the principles and practice of 
surgery have been assigned the highest rank. If we 
were limited to but one work on surgery, that one 
should bo Miller’s, as we regard it as superior to all 
others.—St. Louis Med. and Surg. Journal. 
The author distinguished alike as a practitioner 
and writer, has in this and his “ Principles,” pre- 
sented to the profession one of the most complete and 
reliable systems of Surgery extant. His style of 
writing is original, impressive, and engaging, ener- 
getic, concise, and lucid. Few have the faculty of 
condensing so much in small space, and at the same 
time so persistently holding the attention; indeed, 
he appears to make the very process of condensation 
a means of eliminating attractions. Whether as a 
text-book for students or a book of reference for 
practitioners, it cannot be too strongly recommend- 
ed.—Southern Journal of the Medical and Physical 
Sciences. . 
It is seldom that two volumes have ever made so 
profound an impression in so short a time as the 
“ Principles” and the “ Practice” of Surgery by 
Mr. Miller—or so richly merited the reputation they 
have acquired. The author is an eminently sensi- 
ble, practical, and well-informed man, who’ knows 
exactly what he is talking about and exactly how to 
talk it.—Kentucky Medical Recorder. 
The two volumes together forma complete expose 
of the present state of Surgery, and they ought to be 
on the shelves of every surgeon.—N. J. Med. Re- 
porter;. 
MALGAIGNE (J. F.). 
OPERATIVE SURGERY, based on Normal and Pathological Anatomy. Trans- 
lated from the French, by Frederick BriTtan, A. 8., M. D. With numerous illustrations on 
wood. In one handsome octavo volume, of nearly six hundred pages. 
MOHR (FRANCIS), PH. D., AND REDWOOD (TH EOPH 1 LUS). 
PRACTICAL PHARMACY. Comprising the Arrangements, Apparatus, and 
Manipulations of the Pharmaceutical Shop and Laboratory. Edited, with extensive Additions, 
by Prof. William Procter, of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. In one handsomely 
printed octavo volume, of 570 pages, with over 500 engravings on wood. 
NEILL (JOHN), M. D., 
Professor of Surgery in the Pennsylvania Medical College, &c. 
OUTLINES OF THE ARTERIES. With short Descriptions. Designed for 
the Use of Medical Students. With handsome colored plates. Second and improved edition. 
In one octavo volume, extra cloth. 
OUTLINES OF THE NERVES. With short Descriptions. Designed for the 
Use of Medical Students. With handsome plates. Second and improved edition. In one octavo 
volume, extra cloth. 
OUTLINES OF THE VEINS AND LYMPHATICS. With short Descrip- 
tions. Designed for the Use of Medical Students. With handsome colored plates. In one octavo 
volume, extra cloth. 
ALSO—The three works done up in one handsome volume, half bound, with numerous plates, pre- 
senting a complete view of the Circulatory, Nervous, and Lymphatic Systems. 
This book should be in the hand of every medical 
student. It is cheap, portable, and precisely the 
thing needed in studying an important, though diffi./ 
cult part of Anatomy Boston Med. and Surg, 
Journal. 
and the reading of larger works.—N. Y. Journal of 
Medicine. 
This work is from the pen of a Philadelphia ana- 
tomist, whose familiar knowledge of the subject has 
been aided by the press, the result of which is a vo- 
lume of great beauty and excellence. Its fine exe- 
cution commends it to the student of Anatomy. It 
requires no other recommendations.—Western Journ. 
of Medicine and Surgery. 
We recommend every student of medicine to pur- 
chase a copy of this %vork, as a labor-saving ma- 
chine, admirably adapted to refresh the memory, 
With knowledge gained by lectures, dissections, 24 
BLANCHARD & LEA’S MEDICAL 
NEILL (JOHN), M. D., 
Surgeon to the Pennsylvania Hospital, &c.; and 
FRANCIS GURNEY SMITH, M. D., 
Professor of Institutes of Medicine in the Pennsylvania Medical College. 
AN ANALYTICAL COMPENDIUM OP THE VARIOUS BRANCHES 
OF MEDICAL SCIENCE; for the Use and Examination of Students. Second edition, revised 
and improved. In one very large and handsomely printed royal 12mo. volume, of over one 
thousand pages, with three hundred and fifty illustrations on wood. Strongly bound in leather, 
with raised bands. 
The speedy sale of a large impression of this work has afforded to the authors gratifying evidence 
of the correctness of the views which actuated them in its preparation. In meeting the demand 
for a second edition, they have therefore been desirous to render it more worthy of the favor with 
which it has been received. To accomplish this, they have spared neither time nor labor in embo- 
dying in it such discoveries and improvements as have been made since its first appearance, and 
such alterations as have been suggested by its practical use in the class and examination-room. 
Considerable modifications have thus been introduced throughout all the departments treated of in 
the volume, but more especially in the portion devoted to the “Practice of Medicine,” which has 
been entirely rearranged and rewritten. 
Notwithstanding the enlarged size and improved execution of this work, the price has not been 
increased, and it is confidently presented as one of the cheapest volumes now before the profession. 
In the rapid course of lectures, where work for 
the students is heavy, and review necessary for an 
examination, a compend is not only valuable, but 
it is almost a sine qua non. The one before us is, 
in most of the divisions, the most unexceptionable 
of all books of the kind that we know of. The 
newest and soundest doctrines and the latest im- 
provements and discoveries are explicitly, though 
concisely, laid before the student. Of course it is 
useless for us to recommend it to all last course 
students, but there is a class to whom we very 
sincerely commend this cheap book as worth its 
weight in silver that class is the graduates in 
medicine of more than ten years’ standing, who 
have not studied medicine since. They will perhaps 
find out from it that the science is not exactly now 
what it was when they left it off.—The Stethoscope 
Having made free use of this volume in our ex- 
aminations of pupils, we can speak from experi- 
ence in recommending it as an admirable compend 
for students, and as especially useful to preceptors 
who examine their pupils. It will save the teacher 
much labor by«enabling him readily to recall all of 
the points upon which his pupils should be ex- 
amined. A work- of this sort should be in the hands 
of every one who takes pupils into his office with a 
view of examining them ; and this is unquestionably 
the bestof its class. Let every practitioner who has 
pupils provide himself with It, and he will find the 
labor of refreshing his knowledge so much facilita ted 
that he will be able to do justice to his pupils at very 
little cost of time or trouble to himself.—Transyl- 
vania Med. Journal. 
N ELI GAN (J. MOORE), M. D., M. R. I. A., &c. 
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON DISEASES OE THE SKIN. In one 
neat royal 12mo. volume, of 334 pages. 
OWEN (PROF. R.), 
ON THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF THE SKELETON, AND OF THE 
TEETH. One vol. royal 12m0., with numerous illustrations. {Just Issued.) 
The name of the distinguished author is a sufficient guarantee that this little volume will prove 
a satisfactory manual and guide to all students of Comparative Anatomy and Osteology. The im- 
portance of this subject in geological investigations will also render this work a most valuable 
assistant to those interested in that science. 
Author of “ Lectures on Comparative Anatomy,” “ Archetype of the Skeleton,” &c 
PHILLIPS (BENJAMIN), F. R. S., &c. 
SCROFULA; its Nature, its Prevalence, its Causes, and the Principles of its 
Treatment. In one volume, octavo, with a plate, pp. 350. 
PANCOAST (J.), M. D., 
Professor of Anatomy in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, &c. 
OPERATIVE SURGERY; or, A Description and Demonstration of the various 
Processes of the Art; including all the New Operations, and exhibiting the State of Surgical 
Science in its present advanced condition. Complete in one royal 4to. volume, of 380 pages of 
letter-press description and eighty large 4to. plates, comprising 486 illustrations. Second edition, 
improved. 
This excellent work is constructed on the model 
of the French Surgical Works by Velpeau and Mai- 
gaigne; and, so far as the English language is con- 
cerned, we are proud as an American to say that, 
OF ITS KIND IT HAS no SUPERIOR.—N. Y. Journal of 
Medicine. 
PARKER (LANGSTON), 
Surgeon to the Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham. 
THE MODERN TREATMENT OE SYPHILITIC DISEASES, BOTH PRI- 
MARY AND SECONDARY; comprising' the Treatment of Constitutional and Confirmed Syphi- 
lis, by a safe and successful method. With numerous Cases, Formulae, and Clinical Observa- 
tions. From the Third and entirely rewritten London edition. In one neat octavo volume, 
of 316 pages. (Just Issued.) 
Few of our readers can require to be informed 
that Mr. Langston Parker has for some years held 
one of theh ghest positions as an authority on the 
treatment of syphilis. He cannot, therefore, be in 
the position of one who requires the aid of the re- 
viewer to enable him to bring to light a first work; 
but as his book has undergone an entire revision, 
and in some parts has been rewritten, it is incum- 
bent on us to describe a few of its more salient fea- 
tures. * * * We can heartily recommend Mr. Par- 
ker’s Modern Treatment of Syphilitic Diseases as 
an admirable exposition of the subject of which it 
treats.—Association Medical Journal. AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS. 
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{Now Complete.) 
PEREIRA (JONATHAN), M. D., F. R. S., AND L. S. 
THE ELEMENTS OF MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS. 
Third American edition, enlarged and improved by the author; including Notices of most of the 
Medicinal Substances in use in the civilized world, and forming an Encyclopaedia ot Materia 
Medica. Edited, with Additions, by Joseph Carson, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica and 
Pharmacy in the University of Pennsylvania. In two very large octavo volumes of 2100 pages, 
on small type, with over four hundred and fifty illustrations. 
Volume I.—Lately issued, containing the Inorganic Materia Medica, over 800 pages, with 145 
illustrations. 
Volume II—Now ready, embraces the Organic Materia Medica, and forms a very large octavo 
volume of 1250 pages, with two plates and three hundred handsome wood-cuts. 
The present edition of this valuable and standard work will enhance in every respect its well- 
deserved reputation. The care bestowed upon its revision by the author may be estimated by the 
fact that its size has been increased by about five hundred pages. These additions have extended 
to every portion of the work, and embrace not only the materials afforded by the recent editions of 
the pharmacopoeias, but also all the important information accessible to the care and industry of 
the author in treatises, essays, memoirs, monographs, and from correspondents in various parts of 
the globe. In this manner the work comprises the most recent and reliable information respecting 
all the articles of the Materia Medica, their natural and commercial history, chemical and thera- 
peutical properties, preparation, uses, doses, and modes of administration, brought up to the present 
time, with a completeness not to be met with elsewhere. A considerable portion of the work 
which preceded the remainder in London, has also enjoyed the advantage of a further revision by 
the author expressly for this country, and in addition to this the editor, Professor Carson, has made 
whatever additions appeared desirable to adapt it thoroughly to the U S. Pharmacopeia, and to 
the wants of the American profession. An equal improvement will likewise be observable in every 
department of its mechanical execution. It is printed from new type, on good white paper, with a 
greatly extended and improved series of illustrations. 
Gentlemen who have the first volume are recommended to complete their copies without delay. 
The first volume will no longer be sold separate. 
When we remember that Philology, Natural His- 
tory, Botany, Chemistry, Physics, and the Micro- 
scope, are all brought forward to elucidate the sub- 
ject, one cannot fail to see that the reader has here 
a work worthy of the name of an encyclopedia of 
Materia Medica. Our own opinion of its merits is 
that of its editors, and also that of the whole profes- 
sion, both of this and foreign couniries—namely, 
li that in copiousness of details, in extent, variety, 
a<nd accuracy of information, and in lucid explana- 
tion of difficult and recondite subjects, it surpasses 
all other works on Materia Medica hitherto pub- 
fished.” We cannot close this notice without allud- 
ing to the special additions of the American editor, 
which pertain to the prominent vegetable produc- 
tions of this country, and to the directions of the 
United States Pharmacopoeia, in connection with all 
tlie articles contained in the volume which are re- 
ferredtobyit. The illustrations have been increased, 
and this edition bv Dr. Carson cannot well be re- 
garded in any other light than that of a treasure 
which should be found in the library of every physi- 
cian.—New York Journal of Medical and Collateral 
Science March. 1854. 
Tiie third edition of his “Elements of Materia 
Medica, although completed under the supervision of 
others, is by far the most elaborate treatise in the 
English language, and will, while medical literature 
is cherished, continue a monument alike honorable 
to his genius, as to his learning and industry.— 
American Journal of Pharmacy, March, 1854. 
The work, in its present shape, and so far as can 
be judged from the portion before the public, forms 
the most comprehepsive and complete treatise on 
materia medica extant in the English language.— 
Dr. Pereira has been at great pains to introduce 
into his work, not only all the information on the 
natural, chemical, and commercial history of medi- 
cines, which might be serviceable to the physician 
and surgeon, but whatever might enable his read- 
ers to understand thoroughly the mode of prepar- 
ing and manufacturing various articles employed 
either for preparing medicines, or for certain pur- 
poses in the arts connected with materia medica 
and the practice of medicine. The accounts of the 
physiological and therapeutic effects of remedies are 
given with great clearness and accuracy, and in a 
manner calculated to interest as well as instruct 
the reader,— The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical 
Journal. 
HUMAN HISTOLOGY, in its applications to Physiology and General Pathology; 
designed as a Text-Book for Medical Students. With numerous illustrations. In one handsome 
royal 12mo. volume. (Preparing.) 
The subject of this work is one, the growing importance of which, as the basis of Anatomy and 
Physiology, demands for it a separate volume.. The book will therefore supply an acknowledged 
deficiency in medical text-books, while the name of the author, and his experience as a teacher for 
the last thirteen years, is a guarantee that it will be thoroughly adapted to the use of the student. 
Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in Dartmouth College, &c. 
PEASELEE (E. FU, M. D., 
PIRRIE (WILLIAM), F. R. S. E., 
Professor of Surgery in the University of Aberdeen. 
THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SURGERY. Edited by John 
Neill, M. D., Professor of Surgery in the Penna. Medical College, Surgeon tothe Pennsylvania 
Hospital, &c. In one very handsome octavo volume, of 780 pages, with 316 illustrations. 
We know of no other surgical work of a reason- 
able size, wherein there is so much theory and prac- 
tice, or where subjects are more soundly or clearly 
taught.— The Stethoscope. 
arrived. Prof. Pirrie, in the work before us, has 
elaborately discussed the principles of surgery', and 
a safe and effectual practice predicated upon them. 
Perhaps no work upon this subject heretofore issued 
is so full upon the science of the art of surgery.— 
Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery. 
One of the best treatises on surgery in the English 
language.—Canada Med. Journal. 
Our impression is, that, as a manual for students, 
Pane’s is the best work extant.— Western Med. and 
Surg. Journal, 
There is scarcely a disease of the bone or soft 
parts, fracture, or dislocation, that is not illustrated 
by accurate wood-engravings. Then, again, every 
instrument employed by the surgeon is thus repre- 
sented. These engravings are not only correct, but 
really beautiful, showing the astonishing degree of 
perfection to which the art of wood-engraving has 26 
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PARRISH (EDWARD), 
Lecturer on Practical Pharmacy and Materia Medica in the Pennsylvania Academy of Medicine, &c. 
A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO PHARMACY. Designed as a Text- 
Book for the Student, and as a Guide to the Physician and Pharmaceutist. With numerous 
Formulae and Illustrations. In one handsome octavo volume. (Nearly Heady.) 
The want of an elementary text-book on this subject has long been felt and acknowledged. 
While vast stores of information on all the collateral branches of pharmacy are contained in such 
works as Mohr and Redwood, the U. S. Dispensatory, the Pharmacopoeia, Pereira, and others, 
there has been no compendious manual presenting within a moderate compass, and in systematic 
order, the innumerable minor details which make up the everyday business of those who dispense 
medicines. It has been the object of the author to supply this want, and while to the pharmaceutist 
such a work is manifestly indispensable, its utility will hardly be less to the country practitioner, 
residing at a distance from drug stores, and obliged to dispense the remedies which he prescribes. 
Familiarized with the elements of therapeutics and the essentials of materia medica, by his at- 
tendance at lectures, he has hitherto been obliged to learn for himself the details of prescribing, 
compounding, and preparing medicines. The volume commences with a chapter on the “ outfit1’ 
of the country physician, describing the different articles, their various kinds and comparative ad- 
vantages ; the Pharmacopoeia is described, explained, and commented upon, its conterlts classified 
and arranged so as to be easily comprehended and referred to; all the operations of pharmacy are 
given in minute detail, and under each head the various preparations are specified to which it is 
applicable, with directions for making them, giving in this manner a comprehensive and practical 
view of the materia medica, with much valuable information regarding all the more important ar- 
ticles. All the officinal formulae are thus presented, with directions for their preparation and use, 
together with many empirical ones of interest, and numerous new ones derived from the practice 
of distinguished physicians. Especial attention has been bestowed on the new remedies, the 
more important of which are minutely described, particularly those derived from our indigenous 
plants, which have of late attracted so much attention, and which the author has thoroughly 
investigated. The chapters on extemporaneous pharmacy contain clear and accurate instructions 
for writing prescriptions, selecting, combining, dispensing, and compounding medicines, making 
powders, pills, mixtures, ointments, &c. &c., with formulre; and the work concludes Math an ap- 
pendix of valuable hints and advice to those purchasing articles connected with their profession. 
Numerous tables interspersed throughout elucidate the various subjects, which are rendered still 
(dearer by a large number of engravings. Care has been taken in all instances to indicate and 
describe the simplest apparatus and procedures affording satisfactory results. The long experience 
of the author, both as a teacher of pharmacy, and as a practical pharmaceutist, is sufficient guarantee 
of his familiarity with the wants and necessities of the student, and of his ability to satisfy them. 
ROKITANSKY (CARL), M.D., 
curator of the Imperial Pathological Museum, and Professor at the University of Vienna, &c. 
A MANUAL OF PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY. Four volumes octavo, 
bound in two. (Nearly Ready.) 
Vol. I.—Manual of General Pathological Anatomy. Translated by W. E. Swatne. 
Vol. ll.—Pathological Anatomy of the Abdominal Viscera. Translated by Edward Sieveking, 
M.D. 
Vol. 111.—Pathological Anatomy of the Bones, Cartilages, Muscles,.and Skin, Cellular and Fibrous 
Tissue, Serous and Mucous Membrane, and Nervous System. Translated by C. H. Moore. 
Vol. IV.—Pathological Anatomy of the Organs of Respiration and Circulation. Translated bv G. 
E. Day. 
To render this large and important work more easy of reference, and at the same time less cum- 
brous and costly, the publishers have arranged the four volumes in two, retaining, however, the 
separate paging, &c. 
The publishers feel much pleasure in presenting to the profession of the United States the great 
work of Prof. Rokitansky, which is universally referred to as the standard of authority by the pa- 
thologists of all nations. Under the auspices of the Sydenham Society of London, the combined 
labor of four translators has at length overcome the almost insuperable difficulties which have so 
long prevented the appearance of the work in an English dress, while the additions made from 
various papers and essays of the author present his views on all the topics embraced, in their latest 
published form. To a work so widely known, eulogy is unnecessary, and the publishers would 
merely state that it contains the results of not less than thirty thousand yost-mortem examina- 
tions made by the author, diligently compared, generalized, and wrought into one complete and 
harmonious system. 
A SYSTEM OF MIDWIFERY. With Notes and Additional Illustrations. 
Second American Edition. One volume octavo, 422 pages. 
RIGBY (EDWARD), M. D., 
Physician to the General Lying-in Hospital, &c. 
ROYLE (J, FORBES), M.D. 
MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS; including the Preparations of 
the Pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and of the United States. With many new 
medicines. Edited by Joseph Carson, M. D-, Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy in 
the University of Pennsylvania. With ninety-eight illustrations. In one large octavo volume, 
of about seven hundred pages. 
This work is, indeed, a most valuable one, and 
will fill up an important vacancy that existed be- 
tween Dr. Pereira’s most learned and complete 
system of Materia Medica, and the class of pro- 
ductions on the other extreme, which are neces- 
sarily imperfect from their small extent.—Briiiih 
and Foreign Medical Review. AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS. 
27 
RAMSBOTHAM (FRANCIS H.), M.D. 
THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF OBSTETRIC MEDICINE AND 
SURGERY, in reference to the Process of Parturition. A new and enlarged edition, thoroughly 
revised by the Author. With Additions by W. Y. Keating, M. D. In one large and handsome 
imperial octavo volume, of 650 pages, with sixty-four beautiful Plates, and numerous Wood-cuts 
in the text, containing in all nearly two hundred large and beautiful figures. (Now Ready.) 
In calling the attention of the profession to the new edition of this standard work, the publishers 
would remark that no efforts have been spared to secure for it a continuance and extension of the 
remarkable favor with which it has been received. The last London issue, which was considera- 
bly enlarged, has received a further revision from the author, especially for this country. Its pas- 
sage through the press here has been supervised by Dr. Keating, who has made numerous addi- 
tions with a view of presenting more fully whatever was necessary to adapt it thoroughly to 
American modes of practice. In its mechanical execution, a like superiority over former editions 
will be found. The plates have all been re-engraved it#a new and beautiful style; many additional 
illustrations have been introduced, and in every point of typographical finish it will be found one of 
the handsomest issues of the American press. In its present improved and enlarged form the pub- 
lishers therefore confidently ask for it a place in every medical library, as a text-book for the student, 
or a manual for daily reference by the practitioner. 
From Prof. Hodge, of the University of Pa. 
To the American public, it is most valuable, from its intrinsic undoubted excellence, and as being 
the best authorized exponent of British Midwifery. Its circulation will, 1 trust, be extensive throughout 
our country. 
The publishers have shown their appreciation of 
the merits of this work and secured its success by 
the truly elegant style in which they have brought 
it out, excelling themselves in its production, espe- 
cially in its plates. It is dedicated to Prof. Meigs, 
and has the emphatic endorsement of Prof. Hodge, 
as the best exponent of British Midwifery. We 
know of no text-book which deserves in all respects 
to be more highly recommended to students, and we 
could wish to see it in the hands of every practitioner, 
for they will find it invaluable for reference.—Med. 
Gazette. 
cine and Surgery to our library, and confidently 
recommend it to our readers, with the assurance 
that it will not disappoint their most sanguine ex- 
pectations.—Western Lancet. 
It is unnecessary to say anything in regard to the 
utility of this work. It is already appreciated in our 
country for the value of the matter, the clearness of 
its style, and the fulness of its illustrations. To the 
physician’s library it is indispensable, while to the 
student as, a text-book, from Which to extract the 
material for laying the foundation of an education on 
obstetrical science, it has no superior.—Ohio Med. 
and Surg. Journal. 
But once in a long time some brilliant genius rears 
his head above the horizon of science, and illumi- 
nates and purifies every department that he investi- 
gates ; and his works become types, by which innu- 
merable imitators model their feeble productions. 
Such a genius we find in the younger Ramsbothara, 
and such a type we find in the work now before us. 
The binding, paper, type, the engravings and wood- 
cuts are all so excellent as to make this book one of 
the finest specimens of the art of printing that have 
given such a world-wide reputation to its enterpri- 
sing and liberal publishers. We welcome Raras- 
botham’B Principles and Practice of Obstetric Medi- 
We will only add that the student will learn from 
it all he need to know, and the practitioner will find 
it, as a book of reference, surpassed by none other.— 
Stethoscope. 
The character and merits of Dr. Ramsbotham’s 
work are so well known and thoroughly established, 
that comment is unnecessary and praise superfluous. 
The illustrations, which are numerous and accurate, 
are executed in the highest style of art. We cannot 
too highly recommend the work to our readers.—St. 
Louis Med. and Surg. Journal. 
RiCORD (P.), M. D,, 
Surgeon to the Hopital da Midi, Paris, &c. 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF SYPHILITIC DISEASE. Translated from tlie French, 
by Thomas F. Betton, M. D. With, the addition of a History of Syphilis, and a complete Bib- 
liography and Formulary of Remedies, collated and arranged, by Paul B. Goddard, M. D. With 
fifty large quarto plates, comprising one hundred and seventeen beautifully colored illustrations. 
In one large and handsome quarto volume. 
A TREATISE ON THE VENEREAL DISEASE. By John Hunter, F. R. S. 
With copious Additions, by Ph. Ricord, M. D. Edited, with Notes, by Freeman J. Bumstead, 
M. D. In one handsome octavo volume, of 520 pages, with plates. 
THE SAME author. (Lately Published.) 
Every one will recognize the attractiveness and 
value which this work derives from thus presenting 
the opinions of these two masters side by side. But, 
it must be admitted, what has made the fortune of 
the book, is the fact that it contains the “most com- 
plete embodiment of the veritable doctrines of the 
Hdpital du Midi,” which has ever been made public. 
The doctrinal ideas of M. Ricord, ideas which, if not 
universally adopted, are incontestably dominant, have 
heretofore only been interpreted by more or less skilful 
secretaries, sometimes accredited and sometimes not. 
In the notes to Hunter, the master substitutes him- 
self for his interpreters, and gives his original thoughts 
to the world, in a summary form it is true, but in a 
lucid and perfectly intelligible manner. In conclu- 
sion we can say that this is incontestably the best 
treatise on syphilis with which we are acquainted, 
and, as we do not often employ the phrase, we may 
be excused for expressing the hope that it may find 
a place in the library of every physician—Virginia 
Med. and Surg. Journal. 
LETTERS ON SYPHILIS, addressed to the Chief Editor of the Union Medicale. 
With an Introduction, by Araedee Latour. Translated by W. P. Lattimore, M. I). In one neat 
octavo volume of 270 pages. 
THE SAME AUTHOR. 
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON VENEREAL DISEASES. With a Thera- 
peutical Summary and Special Formulary. Translated by Sidney Doane, M. D. Fourth edition. 
One volume, octavo, 340 pages. 
THE SAME AUTHOR. 28 
BLANCHARD & LEA’S MEDICAL 
SMITH (HENRY H.), M.D., 
Professor of Surgery in the University of Pennsylvania, &c 
MINOR SURGERY; or, Hints on the Every-day Duties of the Surgeon. Illus- 
trated by two hundred and forty-seven illustrations. Third and enlarged edition. In one hand- 
some royal 12mo. volume, pp. 456. 
And a capital little book it is. . . Minor Surgery, 
We repeat, is really Major Surgery, and anything 
which teaches it is worth having. So we cordially 
recommend this little book of Dr. Smith’s.—Med.- 
Ohir. Review. 
This beautiful little work has been compiled with 
a view to the wants of the profes-don in the matter 
of bandaging, &e., and well and ably has the author 
performed his labors. Well adapted to 
requisite information on the subjects of which it 
treats.—Medical Examiner. 
The directions are plain, and illustrated through- 
out with clear engravings.—London Lancet. 
One of the best works they can consult on the 
subject of which it treats.—Southern Journal oj 
Medicine and Pharmacy. 
A work such as the present is therefore highly 
useful to the student, and we commend this one 
to their attention.—American Journal of Medical 
Sciences. 
No operator, however eminent, need hesitate to 
consult this unpretending yet excellent book. Those 
who are young in the business would find Dr. Smith’s 
treatise a necessary companion, after once under- 
standing its true character.—Boston Med. and Surg. 
Journal. 
No young practitioner should be without this little 
volume; and we venture to assert, that it maybe 
consulted by the senior members of the profession 
with more real benefit, than the more volum.nous 
works.— Western Lancet. 
THE SAME AUTHOR, AND 
HORNER (WILLIAM E.), M. D., 
Late Professor of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania. 
AN ANATOMICAL ATLAS, illustrative of the Structure of the Human Body. 
In one volume, large imperial octavo, with about six hundred and fifty beautiful figures. 
These figures are well selected, and present a 
complete and accurate representation of that won- 
derful fabric, the human body. The plan of this 
Atlas, which renders it so peculiarly convenient 
for the student, and its superb artistical execution, 
have been already pointed out. We must congrutu- 
late the student upon the completion of this Atlas, 
as it is the most convenient work of the kind that 
has yet appeared ; and we must add, the very beau- 
tiful manner in which it is “ got up” is so credi table 
to the country as to be flattering to our national 
pride.—American Medical Journal. 
SARGENT (F. W.), M, D. 
ON BANDAGING AND OTHER POINTS OP MINOR SURGERY. In 
one handsome royal 12mo. volume of nearly 400 pages, with 128 wood-cuts. 
The very best manual of Minor Surgery we have 
seen ; an American volume, with nearly four hundred 
pages of good practical lessons, illustrated by about 
one hundred and thirty wood-cuts. In these days 
of trial,” when a doctor’s reputation hangs upon 
a clove hitch, or the roll of a bandage, it would be 
well, perhaps, to carry such a volume as Mr. Sar- 
gent’s always in our coat-pocket, or, at all events, 
to listen attentively to his instructions at home.— 
Buffalo Med. Journal. 
We have carefully examined this work, and find it 
well executed and admirably adapted to the use of 
the student. Besides the subjects usually embraced 
in works on Minor Surgery, there is a short chapter 
on bathing, another on anaisthetic agents, and an 
appendix of formulas. The author has given an ex- 
cellent work on this subject,and his publishers have 
illustrated and printed it in most beautiful style.— 
The Charleston Medical Journal. 
SKEY (FREDERICK C.), F. R. S., &c. 
OPERATIVE SURGERY, In one very handsome octavo volume of over 650 
pages, with about one hundred wood-cuts. 
SHARPEY (WILLIAM), M.D., JONES QUAIN, M.D., AND 
RICHARD QUAIN, F. R. S., &c. 
HUMAN ANATOMY. Revised, with Notes and Additions, by Joseph Leidy, 
M. D. Complete in two large octavo volumes, of about thirteen hundred pages. Beautifully 
illustrated with over five hundred engravings on wood. 
It is indeed a work calculated to make an era in 
anatomical study, by placing before the student 
every department of his science, with a view to 
the relative importance of er.ch ; and so skilfully 
have the different parts been interwoven, that no 
one who makes this work the basis of his studies, 
will hereafter have any excuse for neglecting or 
undervaluing any important particulars connected 
with the structure of the human frame; and 
whether the bias of his mind lead him in a more 
especial manner to surgery, physic, or physiology, 
he will find here a work at once so comprehensive 
and practical as to defend him from exclusiveness 
on the one hand, and pedantry on the other.— 
Monthly Journal and Retrospect of the Medical 
Sciences. 
We have no hesitation in recommending this trea- 
tise on anatomy as the most complete on that sub- 
ject in the English language; and the only one, 
perhaps, in any language, which brings the state 
of knowledge forward to the most recent disco- 
veries.—The Edinburgh Med. and Surg. Journal. 
Admirably calculated to fulfil the object for which 
it is intended.—Provincial Medical Journal. 
The most complete Treatise on Anatomy in the 
English language.—Edinburgh Medical Journal. 
There is no work in the English language to be 
preferred to Dr. Quain’s Elements of Anatomy.— 
London Journal of Medicine. 
A TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THE BONES. In one volume, octavo, 
extra cloth, 286 pages. 
STANLEY (EDWARD). 
SOLLY (SAMUEL), F. R. S. 
THE HUMAN BRAIN; its Structure, Physiology, and Diseases. With a 
Description of the Typical Forms of the Brain in the Animal Kingdom. From the Second and 
much enlarged London edition. In one octavo volume of 500 pages, with 120 Wood-cuts. AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS. 
29 
STILLE (ALFRED). M. D. 
PRINCIPLES OF GENERAL AND SPECIAL THERAPEUTICS. In two 
handsome octavo volumes. (Preparing.) 
SIMON (JOHN), F. R. S 
GENERAL PATHOLOGY, as conducive to the Establishment of Rational 
Principles for the Prevention and Cure of Disease. A Course of Lectures delivered at St. 
Thomas’s Hospital during the summer Session of 1850. In one neat octavo volume, of 212 
pages. 
SMITH (W. TYLER), M. D., 
Physician Accoucheur to St. Mary’s Hospital, &c. 
ON PARTURITION, AND THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OP 
OBSTETRICS. In one large duodecimo volume, of 400 pages. 
the same author.—(Now Ready.) 
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT 
OF LEUCORRHCEA. With»numerous illustrations. In one very handsome octavo volume ot 
about 250 pages. 
The investigation of the pathology and treatment 
of leucorrhoea is a task that may well engage the 
time and energies of the most philosophieal and 
skilled physician ; and there are few men more capa- 
ble of conducting and deducing important observa- 
tions from such a study' than the author of the pre- 
sent treatise. Hr. Tyler Smith’s previous researches, 
not less than his devotion to physiology and scientific 
medicine, point him out as one eminently calculated 
to throw light on many' subjects, which less able 
men might fail to elucidate. We consequently' take 
his work in hand with high expectations and we 
have not been in the least disappointed. The fore- 
going cursory examination of Dr. Tyler Smith’s 
work will be sufficient to prove its value, and we 
hope more than enough to induce every practitioner 
to study it for himself.—The Lancet. 
The above list contains simply the general head- 
ings of the different chapters; to have enumerated 
all the subjects discussed, or to have made further 
extracts, would have compelled us much to exceed 
our limits. This, however, we scarcely regret; 
because we think a perusal of the extracts given 
will induce the reader to examine the work for him- 
self; and we would advise all who are anxious for 
correct ideas respecting these discharges, and their 
sources, to possess themselves of it.—Dublin Med. 
Press. 
SIBSON (FR.ANCIS), M. D., 
Physician to St. Mary’s Hospital, 
MEDICAL ANATOMY. Illustrating the Form, Structure, and Position of the 
Internal Organs in Health and Disease. In large imperial quarto, with splendid colored plates. 
To match “Maclise’s Surgical Anatomy.” Part I. (Nearly Ready.) 
SCHOEDLER (FRIEDRICH), PH.D., 
Professor of the Natural Sciences at Worms, &c. 
THE BOOK OF NATURE; an Elementary Introduction to the Sciences of 
Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Geology, Botany', Zoology, and Physiology. First 
American edition, with a Glossary and other Additions and Improvements; from the second 
English edition. Translated from the sixth German edition, by Henry Mkdlock, F. C. S., &e. 
In one thick volume, small octavo, of about seven hundred pages, with 679 illustrations on wood. 
Suitable for the higher Schools and private students. (Note Ready.) 
This volume, as its title shows, covers nearly all 
the sciences, and embodies a vast amount of informa- 
tion for instruction. No other work that we have 
seen presents the reader with so wide a range of ele- 
mentary knowledge, with so full illustrations, at so 
cheap a rate.—SiLliman's Journal, Nov. 1853. 
TOMES (JOHN), F. R. S. 
A MANUAL OF DENTAL PRACTICE. Illustrated by numerous engravings 
on wood. In one handsome volume. (Preparing.) 
TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
VOLUME VIII, for 1855, Bvo., extra cloth. (.Nearly Ready.') 
A few complete sets can still be had, in eight volumes, price $3B. Applications and remittances 
to be made to Caspar Wister, M. U., Treasurer, Philadelphia. 
These volumes are published by and sold for account of the Association. 
TODD (R. B.), M. D., AND BOWMAN (WILLIAM), F. R. S. 
PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF MAN. With 
numerous handsome wood-cuts. Parts I, 11, and 111, in one octavo volume, 552 pages. Part IV 
will complete the work. 
The first portion of Part IV, with numerous original illustrations, was published in the Medical 
News and Library for 1853, and the completion will be issued immediately on its appearance in 
London. Those who have subscribed since the appearance of the preceding portion of the work 
can have the three parts by mail, on remittance of $2 50 to the publishers. 30 
BLANCHARD & LEA’S MEDICAL 
TANNER (T. H.), M. D., 
Physician to the Hospital for Women, &c. 
A MANUAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE AND PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS. 
To which is added The Code of Ethics of the American Medical Association. In one neat 
volume, small 12m0., extra cloth. (Just Ready.) 
The object of this little work is to furnish the practitioner, in a condensed and convenient com- 
pass, and at a trifling cost, with a guide for the daily exigencies of his practice. A large portion of 
the volume is occupied with details of diagnostic symptoms, classified under the different seats of 
disease. This, in itself, is well worth the price of the book, but in addition, there will be found an 
immense amount of information, not usually touched upon in the systematic works, or scattered 
throughout many'different volumes—such as general rules for conduct, taking notes, clinical exami- 
nation of children and of the insane, post-mortem examinations, medico-legal examinations, exami- 
nations for life insurance, instruments employed in diagnosis, such as the microscope, tests, the 
spirometer, dynamometer, stelhometer, stethoscope, pleximeter, ophthalmoscope, speculum, uterine 
sound, &c.; directions for the chemical and microscopical examination of the blood, urine, sputa, 
&c. &c.; with many other subjects of equal importance which hitherto the young practitioner has 
had to learn in a great measure from experience alone. Although necessarily treated in a condensed 
manner, the topics will be found to embrace the latest and most approved modes of procedure, while 
the addition of the admirable “ Code of Ethics” of the American Medical Association renders it 
complete as a guide for the student and as a manual of daily reference for the younger practitioner. 
Those who desire to use it as a vade-mecum for the pocket, can obtain copies neatly done up in 
flexible cloth. • 
TAYLOR (ALFRED S.), M. D., F. R. S., 
Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence and Chemistry in Guy’s Hospital. 
MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE. Third American, from the fourth and improved 
English Edition. With Notes and References to American Decisions, by Edward Hartshorns, 
M. D. In one large octavo volume, of about seven hundred pages. (Just Issued.) 
We know of no work on Medical Jurisprudence 
which contains in the same space anything like the 
same amount of valuable matter.—N. Y. Journal of 
Medicine. 
No work upon the subject can be put into the 
hands of students either of law or medicine which 
will engage them more closely or profitably; and 
none could be offered to the busy practitioner of 
either calling, for the purpose of casual or hasty 
reference, that would be more likely to afford the aid 
desired. We therefore recommend it as the best and 
safest manual for daily use.—American Journal of 
Medical Sciences. ' 
THE SAME AUTHOR. 
ON POISONS, IN RELATION TO MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE AND 
MEDICINE. Edited, with Notes and Additions, by R. E. Griffith, M. D. In one large octavo 
volume, of 688 pages. 
The most elaborate work on the subject that our 
literature possesses.—British and Foreign Medico- 
Chirurgical Review. 
One of the most practical and trustworthy works 
on Poisons in our language.—Western Journal of 
Medicine. 
THOMSON (A. T.), M, D., F. R. S., &c, 
DOMESTIC MANAGEMENT OF THE SICK ROOM, necessary in aid of 
Medical Treatment for the Cure of Diseases. Edited by R. E. Griffith, M. D. In one iarge 
royal 12mo. volume, with wood-cuts, 360 pages 
WATSON (THOMAS), M.D., &c. 
LECTURES ON THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OP PHYSIC. 
Third American, from the last London edition. Revised, with Additions, by D. Francis Condie, 
M. D., author of a “ Treatise on the Diseases of Children,” &c. In one octavo volume, of nearly 
eleven hundred large pages, strongly bound with raised bands. 
To say that it is the very best work on the sub- 
ject now extant, is but to echo the sentiment of the 
medical press throughout the country. —N. O. 
Medical Journal. 
Confessedly one of the very best works on the 
principles and practice of physic in the English or 
any other language.—Med. Examiner. 
Asa text-book it has no equal; as a compendium 
of pathology and practice no superior.—New Yoric 
Annalist. 
Of the text-books recently republished Watson is 
very justly the principal favorite.—Holmes’s Rep. 
to Nat. Med. Assoc. 
We know of no work better calculated for being 
placed in the hands of the student, and for a text- 
book; on every important point the author seems 
to have posted up his knowledge to the day.— 
Amer. Med. Journal. 
By universal consent the work ranks among the 
very best text-books incur language.—lllinois and 
Indiana Med. Journal. 
Regarded on all hands as one of the very best, if 
not the very best, systematic treatise on practical 
medicine extant.—St. Louis Med. Journal. 
One of the most practically useful books that 
ever was presented to the student. —N. Y. Med. 
Journal. 
WHAT TO OBSERVE 
at the bedside and after death, in medical cases. 
Published under the authority of the London Society for Medical Observation. A new American, 
from the second and revised London edition. In one very handsome volume, royal 12m0., extra 
cloth. (Now Ready.) 
The demand which has so rapidly exhausted the first edition of this little work, shows that the 
advantages it offers to the profession have been duly appreciated, and has stimulated the authors to 
render it more worthy of its reputation. It has therefore been thoroughly revised, and such im- 
provements (among which is a section on Treatment) have been made as further experience in 
its use has shown to be desirable. 
To ttie observer who prefers accuracy to blunders 
and precision to carelessness, this little book is in- 
valuable.—N. H. Journal of Medicine. 
One of the finest aids ton young practitioner we 
have ever seen.—Peninsular Journal of Medicine. AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS. 
31 
WILSON (ERASMUS), M.D., F. R. S., 
Lecturer on Anatomy, London. 
A SYSTEM OE HUMAN ANATOMY, General and Special. Fourth Ameri- 
can, from the last English edition. Edited by Paul B. Goddard, A. M., M. D. With two hun- 
dred and fifty illustrations. Beautifully printed, in one large octavo volume, of nearly six hun- 
dred pages. 
Inanany, if not all the Colleges of the Union, it 
has become a standard text-book. This, of itself, 
is sufficiently expressive of its value. A work very 
desirable to the student; one, the possession of 
which will greatly facilitate his progress in the 
study of Practical Anatomy.—New York Journal of 
Medicine. 
Its author ranks with the highest on Anatomy.— 
Southern Medical and Surgical Journal. 
It offers to the student all the assistance that can 
be expected from such a work.—Medical Examiner. 
The most complete and convenient manual for the 
student we possess.—American Journal of Medical 
Science. 
In every respect, this work as an anatomical 
guide for the student and practitioner, merits our 
warmest and most decided praise.—London Medical 
Gazette. 
THE SAME AUTHOR. 
THE DISSECTOR; or, Practical and Surgical Anatomy. Modified and Pre- 
arranged, by Paul Beck Goddard, M. D. A new edition, with Revisions and Additions. In 
one large and handsome volume, royal 12m0., of 458 pages, with 115 illustrations. 
In passing this work again through the press, the editor has made such additions and improve- 
ments as the advance of anatomical knowledge has rendered necessary to maintain the work in the 
high reputation which it has acquired in the schools of the United States, as a complete and faithful 
guide to the student of practical anatomy. A number of new illustrations have been added, espe- 
cially in the portion relating to the complicated anatomy of Hernia, In mechanical execution the 
work will be found superior to former editions. 
ON DISEASES OF THE SKIN. Third American, from the third London 
edition. In one neat octavo volume, of about five hundred pages, extra cloth. (Just Issued.) 
Also, to be had done up with fifteen beautiful steel plates, of which eight are exquisitely colored ; 
representing the Normal and Pathological Anatomy of the Skin, together with accurately colored 
delineations of more than sixty varieties of disease, most of them the size of nature. The Plates 
arealso for sale separate, done up in boards. 
THE SAME AUTHOR. 
The “Diseases of the Skin,” by Mr. Erasmus 
Wil son, may now be regarded as the standard work 
in that department of medical literature. The 
plates by which this edition is accompanied leave 
nothing to be desired, so far as excellence of delinea- 
tion and perfect accuracy of illustration are con- 
cerned.—Medico-Chirurgical Review. 
THE SAME AUTHOR. 
ON CONSTITUTIONAL AND HEREDITARY SYPHILIS, AND ON 
SYPHILITIC ERUPTIONS. In one small octavo volume, beautifully printed, with four exqui- 
site colored plates, presenting more than thirty varieties of syphilitic eruptions. 
THE SAME author. (Now Ready.) 
HEALTHY SKIN; A Popular Treatise on the Skin and Hair, their Preserva- 
tion and Management. Second American, from the fourth London edition. One neat volume, 
royal 12m0., of about 300 pages, with numerous illustrations. 
Copies can be had done up in paper covers for mailing, price 75 cents. 
WHITEHEAD (JAMES), F. R. C. S., &c. 
THE CAUSES AND TREATMENT OF ABORTION AND STERILITY; 
being the Result of an Extended Practical Inquiry into the Physiological and Morbid Conditions 
of the Uterus. Second American Edition. In one volume, octavo, 368 pages. (Now Ready.) 
Such are the advances made from year to year in 
this department of our profession, that the practi- 
tioner who does not consult the recent works on the 
complaints of females, will soon find himself in the 
rear of his more studious brethren. This is one ol 
the works which must be studied by those who 
would know what the present state of our knowledge 
is respecting the causes and treatment of abortion 
and sterility.—The Western Journal of Medicine and 
Surgery. 
WALSHE (W. H.), M. D., 
Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine in University College, London. , 
DISEASES OF THE HEART, LUNGS, AND APPENDAGES; their 
Symptoms and Treatment. In one handsome volume, large royal 12m0., 512 pages. 
We consider this as the ablest work in the En- 
glish, language, on the subject of which it treats; 
the author being the first stethoscopist of the day.— 
Charleston Medical Journal. 
WILDE (W. R.). 
Surgeon to St. Mark’s Ophthalmic and Aural Hospital, Dublin. 
AURAL SURGERY, AND THE NATURE AND TREATMENT OF DIS- 
EASES OF THE EAR. In one handsome octavo volume of 476 pages, with illustrations. 
This work certainly contains more information on 
the subject to which it is devoted than any other 
with which we are acquainted. We feel grateful to 
die author for his manful effort to rescue this depart- 
ment of surgery from the hands of the empirics who 
nearly monopolize it. We think he has successfully 
shown that aural diseases are not beyond the re- 
sources of art; that they are governed by the same 
laws, and amenable to the same general methods of 
treatment as other morbid processes. The work is 
not written to supply the cravings of popular patro- 
nage, but it is wholly addressed to the profession, 
and bears on every page the impress of the reflections 
of a sagacious and practical surgeon.— Va. Surg. and 
Med. Journal. 32 
BLANCHARD & LEA’S SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS. 
WEST (CHARLES), M. D., 
Physician to the Hospital for Sick Children, &c. 
LECTURES ON THE DISEASES OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD. 
Second American, from the Second and Enlarged London edition. In one volume, octavo, of 
nearly five hundred pages. (Just Issued.) 
We take leave of Hr. West with great respect for 
his attainments, a due appreciation of his acute 
powers of observation, and a deep sense of obliga- 
tion for this valuable contribution to our profes- 
sional literature. His book is undoubtedly in many 
respects the best we possess on diseases of children. 
The extracts we have given will, we hope, satisfy 
our readers of its value; and yet in all candor we 
must say that they are even inferior to some other 
parts, the length of which prohibited our entering 
upon them. That the book will shortly be in the 
hands of most of our readers we do not doubt, and it 
will give u» much pleasure if our strong recommend- 
ation of it may contribute towards the result.—The 
Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science. 
Hr. West has placed the profession under deep ob- 
ligation by this able, thorough, and finished work 
upon a subject which almost daily taxes to the ut- 
most the skill of the general practitioner. He has 
with singular felicity threaded his way through all 
the tortuous labyrinths of the difficult subject he has 
undertaken to elucidate, and has in many of the 
darkest corners left a light, for the benefit of suc- 
ceeding travellers, which will never be extinguished. 
Not the least captivating feature in this admirable 
performance is its easy, conversational style, which 
acquires force from its very simplicity, and leaves 
an impression upon the memory, of the truths it 
conveys, as clear and refreshing as its own purity. 
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WILLIAMS (C. J. B.), M. D., F. R. S., 
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THE SAME AUTHOR. 
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY 
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