30 BLANCHARD & LEA'S MEDICAL New and much enlarged edition-(Now Ready.) WATSON (THOMAS), M. D., &c. Late Physician to the Middlesex Hospital, &c. LECTURES ON THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF PHYSIC. Delivered at King's College, London. A new American, from the last revised and enlarged English edition, with Additions, by D. FRANCIS CONDIE, M. D., author of "A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children," &c. With one hundred and eighty.five illustrations on wood. In one very large and handsome volume, imperial octavo, of over 1200 closely printed pages in small type; the whole strongly bound in leather, with raised bands. Price $425. The publishers feel that they are rendering a service to the American profession in presenting at so very moderate a price this vast body of sound practical information. Whether as a guide for the student entering on a course of instruction, or as a book of reference for daily consultation by the practitioner, "Watson's Practice" has long been regarded as second to none; the soundness and fulness of its teachings, the breadth and liberality of its views, and the easy and flowing style in which it is written having won for it the position of a general favorite. That this high reputation might be fully maintained, the author has subjected it to a thorough revision; every portion has been examined with the aid of the most recent researches in pathology, and the results of modern investigations in both theoretical and practical subjects have been carefully weighed and embodied throughout its pages The watchful scrutiny of the editor has likewise introduced whatever possesses immediate importance to the American physician in relation to diseases incident to our climate which are little known in England, as well as those points in which experience here has led to different modes of practice; and he has also added largely to the series of illustrations, believing that in this manner valuable assistance may be conveyed to the student in elucidating the text. The work will, therefore, be found thoroughly on a level with the most advanced state of medical science on both sides of the Atlantic. The additions which the work has received are shown by the fact that notwithstanding an enlargement in the size of the page, more than two hundred additional pages have been necessary to accommodate the two large volumes of the London edition (which sells at ten dollars), within the compass of a single volume, and in its present form it contains the matter of at least three ordinary octavos. Believing it to be a work which should lie on the table of every physician, and be in the hands of every student, the publishers have put it at a price within the reach of all, making it one of the cheapest books as yet presented to the American profession, while at the same time the beauty of its mechanical execution renders it an exceedingly attractive volume. It would appear almost superfluous to adduce commendatory notices of a work which has so long been established in the position of a standard authority as "Watson's Practice." A few extracts are, however, subjoined from reviews of the new and improved edition. The fourth edition now appears, so carefully revised, as to add considerably to the value of a book already acknowledged, wherever the English langunge is read, to be beyond all comparison the best systematic work on the Principles and Practice of Physic in the whole range of medical literature. Every lecture contains proof of the extreme anxiety of the author to keep pace with the advancing knowledge of the day, and to bring the results of the labors, not only of physicians, but of chemists and histologists, before his readers, wherever they can be turned to useful account. And this is done with such a cordial appreciation of the merit due to the industrious observer, such a generous desire to encourage younger and rising men, and such a candid acknowledgment of his own obligations to them, that one scarcely knows whether to admire most the pure, simple, forcible English-the vast amount of useful practical information condensed into the Lectures-or the manly, kind-hearted, unassuming haracter of the lecturer shining through his work. -London Med. Times and Gazette, Oct. 31, 1857. Thus these admirable volumes come before the profession in their fourth edition, abounding in those distinguished attributes of moderation, judgment, erudite cultivation, clearness, and eloquence, with which they were from the first invested, but yet richer than before in the results of more prolonged observation, and in the able appreciation of the latest advances in pathology and medicine by one of the most profound medical thinkers of the day. London Lancet, Nov. 14, 1857. The lecturer's skill, his wisdom, his learning, are equalled by the ease of his graceful diction, his eloquence, and the far higher qualities of candor, of courtesy, of modesty, and of generous appreciation of merit in others. May be long remain to instruct us, and to enjoy, in the glorious sunget of his deelining years, the honors, the confidence and love gained during his useful life.-N. A. Med.-Chir. Review, July, 1858. Watson's unrivalled, perhaps unapproachable work on Practice-the copious additions made to which (the fourth edition) have given it all the novelty and much of the interest of a new bookCharleston Med. Journal, July, 1858. Lecturers, practitioners, and students of medicine will equally hail the reappearance of the work of Dr. Watson in the form of a new-a fourth-edition. We merely do justice to our own feelings, and, we are sure, of the whole profession, if we thank him for having, in the trouble and turmoil of a large practice, made leisure to supply the hiatus caused by the exhaustion of the publisher's stock of the third edition, which has been severely felt for the last three years. For Dr. Watson has not merely caused the lectures to be reprinted, but scattered through the whole work we find additions or alterations which prove that the author has in every way sought to bring up his teaching to the level of the most recent acquisitions in science.-Brit. and Fer. Medico-Chir. Review, Jan. 1858. WILSON (ERASMUS), M. D., F. R. S. Lecturer on Anatomy, London. THE DISSECTOR'S MANUAL; or, Practical and Surgical Anatomy. Third American, from the last revised and enlarged English edition. Modified and rearranged, by WILLIAM HUNT, M. D., Demonstrator of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania. In one large and handsome royal 12mo. volume, leather, of 582 pages, with 154 illustrations. $200. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. ON CONSTITUTIONAL AND HEREDITARY SYPHILIS, AND ON SYPHILITIC ERUPTIONS. In one small octavo volume, extra cloth, beautifully printed, with four exquisite colored plates, presenting more than thirty varieties of syphilitic eruptions. $2 25. AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS. New and much enlarged edition-(Now Ready.) WILSON (ERASMUS), F. R. S., 31 A SYSTEM OF HUMAN ANATOMY, General and Special. A new and revised American, from the last and enlarged English Edition. Edited by W. II. GOBRECHT, M. D., Professor of Anatomy in the Philadelphia Medical College, &c. Illustrated with three hundred and ninety-seven engravings on wood. In one large and exquisitely printed octavo volume, of over 600 large pages; leather. $3 25. The publishers trust that the well earned reputation so long enjoyed by this work will be more than maintained by the present edition. Besides a very thorough revision by the author, it has been most carefully examined by the editor, and the efforts of both have been directed to introducing everything which increased experience in its use has suggested as desirable to render it a complete text-book for those seeking to obtain or to renew an acquaintance with Human Anatomy. The amount of additions which it has thus received may be estimated from the fact that the present edition contains over one-fourth more matter than the last, rendering a smaller type and an enlarged page requisite to keep the volume within a convenient size. The author has not only thus added largely to the work, but he has also made alterations throughout, wherever there appeared the opportunity of improving the arrangement or style, so as to present every fact in its most appropriate manner, and to render the whole as clear and intelligible as possible. The editor has exercised the utmost caution to obtain entire accuracy in the text, and has largely increased the number of illustrations, of which there are about one hundred and fifty more in this edition than in the last, thus bringing distinctly before the eye of the student everything of interest or importance. The publishers have felt that neither care nor expense should be spared to render the external finish of the volume worthy of the universal favor with which it has been received by the American profession, and they have endeavored consequently to produce in its mechanical execution an improvement corresponding with that which the text has enjoyed. It will therefore be found one of the handsomest specimens of typography as yet produced in this country, and in all respects suited to the office table of the practitioner, notwithstanding the exceedingly low price at which it has been placed. It may be recommended to the student as no less | beauty of its mechanical execution, and the cleardistinguished by its accuracy and clearness of de-ness of the descriptions which it contains is equally scription than by its typographical elegance. The evident. Let students, by all means examine the wood-cuts are exquisite.-Brit. and For. Medical claims of this work on their notice, before they purchase a text-book of the vitally important science which this volume so fully and easily unfolds. Review. An elegant edition of one of the most useful and accurate systems of anatomical science which has been issued from the press. The illustrations are really beautiful. In its style the work is extremely concise and intelligible. No one can possibly take up this volume without being struck with the great Lancet. We regard it as the best system now extant for students.-Western Lancet. It therefore receives our highest commendation.Southern Med. and Surg. Journal. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. (Just Issued.) ON DISEASES OF THE SKIN. Fourth and enlarged American, from the last and improved London edition. In one large octavo volume, of 650 pages, extra cloth, $2 75. The writings of Wilson, upon diseases of the skin, are by far the most scientific and practical that have ever been presented to the medical world on this subject. The present edition is a great improvement on all its predecessors. To dwell upon all the great merits and high claims of the work before us, seriatim, would indeed be an agreeable service; it would be a mental homage which we could freely offer, but we should thus occupy an undue amount of space in this Journal. We will, however, look at some of the more salient points with which it abounds, and which make it incomparaviy superior in excellence to all other treatises on the subject of dermatology. No mere speculative views are allowed a place in this volume, which, without a doubt, will, for a very long period, be acknowledged as the chief standard work on dermatology. The principles of an enlightened and rational therapeia are introduced on every appropriate occasion. The general prac titioner and surgeon who, peradventure, may have for years regarded cutaneous maladies as scarcely worthy their attention, because, forsooth, they are not fatal in their tendency; or who, if they have attempted their cure, have followed the blind guidance of empiricism, will almost assuredly be roused to a new and becoming interest in this department of practice, through the inspiring agency of this book.-Am. Jour. Med. Science, Oct. 1857. ALSO, NOW READY, A SERIES OF PLATES ILLUSTRATING WILSON ON DISEASES OF THE SKIN; consisting of nineteen beautifully executed plates, of which twelve are exquisitely colored, presenting the Normal Anatomy and Pathology of the Skin, and containing accurate representations of about one hundred varieties of disease, most of them the size of nature. Price in cloth $4 25. In beauty of drawing and accuracy and finish of coloring these plates will be found equal to anything of the kind as yet issued in this country. One of the best specimens of colored lithographic | We have already expressed our high appreciation illustrations that have ever been published in this of Mr. Wilson's treatise on Diseases of the Skin. country. The representations of diseases of the The plates are comprised in a separate volume, skin, even to the most minute shade of coloring, are which we counsel all those who possess the text to remarkably accurate, giving the student or practi- purchase. It is a beautiful specimen of color printtioner a very correct idea of the disease he is studying, and the representations of the various forms of ing. We know of no work so well adapted to the skin disease are as faithful as is possible in plates wants of the general practitioner as Wilson's, with of the size.-Boston Med. and Surg. Journal, April the accompanying plates. Med. and Surg. Re- 8, 1858. porter, May, 1858. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. HEALTHY SKIN; A Popular Treatise on the Skin and Hair, their Preservation and Management. Second American, from the fourth London edition. One neat volume, royal 12mo., extra cloth, of about 300 pages, with numerous illustrations. $1 00; paper cover, 75 cents. 32 BLANCHARD & LEA'S MEDICAL PUBLICATIONS. WEST (CHARLES), M. D., Accoucheur to and Lecturer on Midwifery at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Physician to the Hospital for Sick Children, &c. LECTURES ON THE DISEASES OF WOMEN. Now complete in one handsome octavo volume, extra cloth, of about 500 pages; price $2 50. Also, for sale separate, PART II, being pp. 309 to end, with Index, Title matter, &c., 8vo., cloth, price $1. We know of no treatise of the kind so complete and yet so compact.-Chicago Med. Journal, January, 1858. A fairer, more honest, more earnest, and more reliable investigator of the many diseases of women and children is not to be found in any countrySouthern Med. and Surg. Journal, January 18%. As a writer, Dr. West stands, in our opinion, se- | painstaking, practical physician is apparent on every cond only to Watson, the" Macaulay of Medicine;" page.-N. Y. Journal of Medicine, March, 1858. he possesses that happy faculty of clothing instruction in easy garments; combining pleasure with profit, he leads his pupils, in spite of the ancient proverb, along a royal road to learning. His work is one which will not satisfy the extreme on either side, but it is one that will please the great majority who are seeking truth, and one that will convince the student that he has committed himself to a candid, safe, and valuable guide. We anticipate with pleasure the appearance of the second part of the work, which, if it equals this part, will complete one of our very best volumes upon diseases of females.-N. A. Med.-Chirurg. Review, July, 1858. We must now conclude this hastily written sketch with the confident assurance to our readers that the work will well repay perusal. The conscientious, We gladly recommend his Lectures as in the highest degree instructive to all who are interested in obstetric practice.-London Lancet. We have to say of it, briefly and decidedly, that it is the best work on the subject in any language; and that it stamps Dr. West as the facile princeps of British obstetric authors.-Edinb. Med. Joura. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. (Now Ready.) LECTURES ON THE DISEASES OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD. Third American, from the fourth enlarged and improved London edition. In one handsome octavo volume, extra cloth, of about six hundred and fifty pages. The continued favor with which this work has been received has stimulated the author to render it in every respect more complete and more worthy the confidence of the profession Containing nearly two hundred pages more than the last American edition, with several additional Lectures and a caretul revision and enlargement of those formerly comprised in it, it can hardly fail to maintain its reputation as a clear and judicious text-book for the student, and a safe and reliable guide for the practitioner. The fact stated by the author that these Lectures now embody the results of 900 observations and 288 post-mortem examinations made among nearly 30,000 children, who, during the past twenty-years, have come under my care," is sufficient to show their high practical value as the result of an amount of experience which few physicians enjoy. The three former editions of the work now before us have placed the author in the foremost rank of those physicians who have devoted special attention to the diseases of early life. We attempt no analysis of this edition, but may refer the reader to some of the chapters to which the largest additions have been made those on Diphtheria, Disorders of the Mind, and Idiocy, for instance-as a proof that the work is really a new edition; not a mere reprint. In its present shape it will be found of the greatest possible service in the every-day practice of ninetenths of the profession.-Med. Times and Gazette, London, Dec. 10, 1859. All things considered, this book of Dr. West is by far the best treatise in our language upon such modifications of morbid action and disease as are witnessed when we have to deal with infancy and childhood. It is true that it confines itself to such disorders as come within the province of the physician, and even with respect to these it is unequal as regards minuteness of consideration, and some diseases it omits to notice altogether. But those who know anything of the present condition of pædiatrics will readily admit that it would be next to impossible to effect more, or effect it better, than the accoucher of St. Bartholomew's has done in a single volume. The lecture (XVI.) upon Disorcers of the Mind in children is an admirable specimen of the value of the later information conveyed in the Lectures of Dr. Charles West.-London Lancet, Oct. 22, 1859. Since the appearance of the first edition, about eleven years ago, the experience of the author has doubled; so that, whereas the lectures at first were founded on six hundred observations, and one hundred and eighty dissections made among nearly foutteen thousand children, they now embody the results of nine hundred observations, and two hundred and eighty-eight post-mortem examinations made among nearly thirty thousand children, who, during the past twenty years, have been under his care. British Med. Journal, Oct. 1, 1859. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. AN ENQUIRY INTO THE PATHOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF ULCERATION OF THE OS UTERI. In one neat octavo volume, extra cloth. $1 00. WHITEHEAD ON THE CAUSES AND TREAT- Second American Edition. In one volume, octavo, extra cloth, pp. 308. 81 75. 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 12mo., extra cloth. $1 00. To the observer who prefers accuracy to blunders and precision to carelessness, this little book is invaluable.-N. H. Journal of Medicine. One of the finest aids to a young practitioner we have ever seen.-Peninsula 1 Journal of Medicina. |