AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS. CARPENTER (WILLIAM B.), M. D., F. R. S., Examiner in Physiology and Comparative Anatomy in the University of London. THE MICROSCOPE AND ITS REVELATIONS. With an Appendix containing the Applications of the Microscope to Clinical Medicine, &c. By F. G. SMITH, M. D. Illustrated by four hundred and thirty-four beautiful engravings on wood. In one large and very handsome octavo volume, of 724 pages, extra cloth, $4 00; leather, $4 50. Dr. Carpenter's position as a microscopist and physiologist, and his great experience as a teacher, eminently qualify him to produce what has long been wanted-a good text-book on the practical use of the microscope. In the present volume his object has been, as stated in his Preface, "to combine, within a moderate compass, that information with regard to the use of his 'tools,' which is most essential to the working microscopist, with such an account of the objects best fitted for his study, as might qualify him to comprehend what he observes, and might thus prepare him to benefit science, whilst expanding and refreshing his own mind" That he has succeeded in accomplishing this, no one acquainted with his previous labors can doubt. The great importance of the microscope as a means of diagnosis, and the number of microscopists who are also physicians, have induced the American publishers, with the author's approval, to add an Appendix, carefully prepared by Professor Smith, on the applications of the instrument to clinical medicine, together with an account of American Microscopes, their modifications and accessories. This portion of the work is illustrated with nearly one hundred wood-cuts, and, it is hoped, will adapt the volume more particularly to the use of the American student. Every care has been taken in the mechanical execution of the work, which is confidently presented as in no respect inferior to the choicest productions of the London press. The mode in which the author has executed his intentions may be gathered from the following condensed synopsis of the CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION-History of the Microscope. CHAP. I. Optical Principles of the Microscope.. CHAP. II. Construction of the Microscope. CHAP. III. Accessory Apparatus. CHAP. Ív. Management of the Microscope CHAP. V. Preparation, Mounting, and Collection of Objects. CHAP. VI. Microscopic Forms of Vegetable Life-Protophytes. CHAP. VII. Higher Cryptoga. mia. CHAP. VIII. Phanerogamic Plants. CHAP. IX. Microscopic Forms of Animal Life-Pro tozoa-Animalcules. CHAP. X. Foraminifera, Polycystina, and Sponges. CHAP. XI. Zoophytes. CHAP. XII. Echinodermata. CHAP. XIII. Polyzoa and Compound Tunicata. CHAP. XIV. Molluscous Animals Generally. CHAP. XV. Annulosa. CHAP. XVI. Crustacea. CHAP. XVII. Insects and Arachnida. CHAP. XVIII. Vertebrated Animals. CHAP. XIX. Applications of the Microscope to Geology. CHAP. XX. Inorganic or Mineral Kingdom-Polarization. APPENDIX. Microscope as a means of Diagnosis-Injections-Microscopes of American Manufacture. Those who are acquainted with Dr. Carpenter's previous writings on Animal and Vegetable Physiofogy, will fully understand how vast a store of knowledge he is able to bring to bear upon so comprehensive a subject as the revelations of the microscope; and even those who have no previous acquaintance with the construction or uses of this instrument, will find abundance of information conveyed in clear and simple language.-Med. Times and Gazette. Although originally not intended as a strictly medical work, the additions by Prof. Smith give it a positive claim upon the profession, for which we doubt not he will receive their sincere thanks. Indeed, we know not where the student of medicine will find such a complete and satisfactory collection of microscopic facts bearing upon physiology and practical medicine as is contained in Prof. Smith's appendix; and this of itself, it seems to us, is fully worth the cost of the volume.-Louisville Medical Review, Nov. 1856. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. ELEMENTS (OR MANUAL) OF PHYSIOLOGY, INCLUDING PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY. Second American, from a new and revised London edition. With one hundred and ninety illustrations. In one very handsome octavo volume, leather. pp. 566. $3.00. 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. In his former works it would seem that he had exhausted the subject of Physiology. In the present, he gives the essence, as it were, of the whole.-N. Y. Journal of Medicine. Those who have occasion for an elementary treatise on Physiology, cannot do better than to possess themselves of the manual of Dr. Carpenter.-Medical Examiner. The best and most complete exposé of modern Physiology, in one volume, extant in the English language. St. Louis Medical Journal. BY 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 editions of the author's "Comparative Physiology" and "Human Physiology," he has undertaken to prepare a volume which shall present it more thoroughly and fully than has yet been attempted, and which may be regarded as an introduction to his other works. BY THE SAME author. 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, extra cloth. pp. 178. 50 cents. BLANCHARD & LEA'S MEDICAL CONDIE (D. F.), M. D., &c. A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE DISEASES OF CHILDREN. Fifth edition, revised and augmented. In one large volume, 8vo., leather, of over 750 pages. $3 25. (Now Ready, 1859.) In presenting a new and revised edition of this favorite work, the publishers have only to state that the author has endeavored to render it in every respect "a complete and faithful exposition of the pathology and therapeutics of the maladies incident to the earlier stages of existence-a full and exact account of the diseases of infancy and childhood." To accomplish this he has subjected the whole work to a careful and thorough revision, rewriting a considerable portion, and adding several new chapters. In this manner it is hoped that any deficiencies which may have previously existed have been supplied, that the recent labors of practitioners and observers have been tho roughly incorporated, and that in every point the work will be found to maintain the high reputation it has enjoyed as a complete and thoroughly practical book of reference in infantile affections. A few notices of previous editions are subjoined. Dr. Condie's scholarship, acumen, industry, and We pronounced the first edition to be the best practical sense are manifested in this, as in all his work on the diseases of children in the English numerous contributions to science.-Dr. Holmes's language, and, notwithstanding all that has been Report to the American Medical Association. published, we still regard it in that light.—Medical Examiner. Taken as a whole, in our judgment, Dr. Condie's Treatise is the one from the perusal of which the The value of works by native authors on the dispractitioner in this country will rise with the great-eases which the physician is called upon to combat, est satisfaction.-Western Journal of Medicine and will be appreciated by all; and the work of Dr. ConSurgery. die has gained for itself the character of a safe guide for students, and a useful work for consultation by those engaged in practice.-N. Y. Med. Times. One of the best works upon the Diseases of Children in the English language.-Western Lancet. We feel assured from actual experience that no physician's library can be complete without a copy of this work.-N. Y. Journal of Medicine. A veritable pædiatric encyclopædia, and an honor to American medical literature.-Ohio Medical and Surgical Journal. This is the fourth edition of this deservedly popu tion, it has been subjected to a thorough revision lar treatise. During the interval since the last edi by the author; and all new observations in the pathology and therapeutics of children have been included in the present volume. As we said before, we do not know of a better book on diseases of children, and to a large part of its recommendations we yield an unhesitating concurrence.-Buffalo Med. Journal. We feel persuaded that the American medical profession will soon regard it not only as a very good, but as the VERY BEST "Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children."-American Medical Journal Perhaps the most full and complete work now beIn the department of infantile therapeutics, the fore the profession of the United States; indeed, we work of Dr. Condie is considered one of the best may say in the English language. It is vastly supewhich has been published in the English language.rior to most of its predecessors.-Transylvania Med. -The Stethoscope. Journal. CHRISTISON (ROBERT), M. D., V. P. R. S. E., &c. A DISPENSATORY; or, Commentary on the Pharmacopoeias of Great Britain and the United States; comprising the Natural History, Description, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Actions, Uses, and Doses of the Articles of the Materia Medica. Second edition, revised and improved, with a Supplement containing the most important New Remedies. With copious Additions, and two hundred and thirteen large wood-engravings. By R. EGLESFELD GRIFFITH, M. D. In one very large and handsome octavo volume, leather, raised bands, of over 1000 pages. $3 50. COOPER (BRANSBY B.), F. R. S. LECTURES ON THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF In one very large octavo volume, extra cloth, of 750 pages. $3 00. COOPER 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, extra cloth, of about 500 pages, with numerous illustrations on wood. $3 25. COOPER ON THE ANATOMY AND DISEASES COOPER ON THE STRUCTURE AND DIS- SURGERY. COPLAND ON THE CAUSES, NATURE, AND CLYMER ON FEVERS; THEIR DIAGNOSIS, 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. Second and revised edition. In one very neat octavo volume, extra cloth, of 208 pages. $1 50. CURLING (T. B.), F.R. S., Surgeon to the London Hospital, President of the Hunterian Society, &c. A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THE TESTIS, SPERMATIC CORD, AND SCROTUM. Second American, from the second and enlarged English edition. In one handsome octavo volume, extra cloth, with numerous il.ustrations. pp. 420. $2 00. AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS. CHURCHILL (FLEETWOOD), M. D., M. R. I. A. ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MIDWIFERY. Edited, with Notes and Additions, by D. FRANCIS CONDIE, M. D., author of a "Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children," &c. With 139 illustrations. In one very handsome octavo volume, leather. pp. 510. $300. 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 interest and instruction in everything relating to theoretical and practical midwifery.-Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science. A work of very great merit, and such as we can confidently recommend to the study of every obstetric practitioner.-London Medical Gazette." This is certainly the most perfect system extant. It is the best adapted for the purposes of a textbook, and that which he whose necessities confine him to one book, should select in preference to all others.-Southern Medical and Surgical Journal, 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. It is impossible to conceive a more useful and elegant manual than Dr. Churchill's Practice of Midwifery.-Provincial Medical Journal. No work holds a higher position, or is more deserving 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, reprinted 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 remedial science.-N. O. Med. and Surg. 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 language.-Monthly Journal of Medical Science. 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 department of medical science. N. Y. Journal of Medicine. Few treatises will be found better adapted as a text-book for the student, or as a manual for the Certainly, in our opinion, the very best work on frequent consultation of the young practitioner.-the subject which exists.-N. Y. Annalist. American Medical Journal. (Lately Published.) BY THE SAME AUTHOR. ON THE DISEASES OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN. Second American Edition, revised and enlarged by the author. Edited, with Notes, by W. V. KEATING, M. D. In one large and handsome volume, extra cloth, of over 700 pages. $3 00, or in leather, $3 25. In preparing this work a second time for the American profession, the author has spared no labor in giving it a very thorough revision, introducing several new chapters, and rewriting others, while every portion of the volume has been subjected to a severe scrutiny. The efforts of the American editor have been directed to supplying such information relative to matters peculiar to this country as might have escaped the attention of the author and the whole may, therefore, be safely pronounced one of the most complete works on the subject accessible to the American Profession. By an alteration in the size of the page, these very extensive additions have been accommodated without unduly increasing the size of the work. This work contains a vast amount of interesting matter, which is so well arranged and so curtly worded that the book may be regarded as an encyelopædia of information upon the subject of which it treats. It is certainly also a monument of Dr. Churchill's untiring industry, inasmuch as there is not a single work upon the diseases of children with which we are acquainted that is not fully referred to and quoted from in its pages, and scarcely a contribution of the least importance to any British or Foreign Medical Journal, for some years past, which is not duly noticed.-London Lancet, Feb. 20, 1858. Availing himself of every fresh source of information, Dr. Churchill endeavored, with his accustomed industry and perseverance, to bring his work up to the present state of medical knowledge in all the subjects of which it treats; and in this endeavor he has, we feel bound to say, been eminently successful. Besides the addition of more than one hundred and thirty pages of matter, we observe that some entirely new and important chapters are introduced, viz: on paralysis, syphilis, phthisis, sclerema, &c. &c. As the work now stands, it is, we believe, the most comprehensive in the English language upon the diseases incident to early life.-Dublin Quarterly Journal, Feb. 1858. It brings before the reader an amount of information not comprised in any similar production in the language. The amount of labor consumed upon its production can only be conceived by those who have been similarly occupied, every work of note published within the last twenty-five years in the different languages of Europe having been laid under contribution for the illustration of its topics. The material thus derived has been used with consummate skill, and the result has been a work creditable alike to the author and his country.-N. A. Medico-Chir. Review, May, 1858. notice of Dr. Churchill's work, we shall conclude After this meagre, and we know, very imperfect by saying, that it is one that cannot fail from its coto exalt still higher the reputation of the author in piousness, extensive research, and general accuracy, this country. The American reader will be partieularly pleased to find that Dr. Churchill has done full justice throughout his work to the varions 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 in terms of the highest praise, and with the most liberal courtesy.--The Medical Examiner. We recommend the work of Dr. Churchill most cordially, both to students and practitioners, as a valuable and reliable guide in the treatment of the diseases of children.--Am. Journ. of the Med. Sciences. We know of no work on this department of Practical 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 practical 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. BY THE SAME Author. ESSAYS ON THE PUERPERAL FEVER, AND OTHER DISEASES PECULIAR TO WOMEN. Selected from the writings of British Authors previous to the close of the Eighteenth Century. In one neat octavo volume, extra cloth, of about 450 pages. $2 50. 10 10 BLANCHARD & LEA'S MEDICAL CHURCHILL (FLEETWOOD), M. D., M. R. I. A., &c. ON THE DISEASES OF WOMEN; including those of Pregnancy and Childbed. 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."' With numerous illustrations. In one large and handsome ocfavo volume, leather, of 768 pages. $300. This edition of Dr. Churchill's very popular treatise may almost be termed a new work. so thoroughly has he revised it in every portion. It will be found greatly enlarged, and thoroughly brought up to the most recent condition of the subject, while the very handsome series of illustra tions introduced, representing such pathological conditions as can be accurately portrayed, present a novel feature, and afford valuable assistance to the young practitioner. Such additions as ap peared desirable for the American student have been made by the editor, Dr. Condie, while a marked improvement in the mechanical execution keeps pace with the advance in all other respects which the volume has undergone, while the price has been kept at the former very moderate rate. It comprises, unquestionably, one of the most ex-rally received both as a text-book and manual of act and comprehensive expositions of the present practice. The present edition has undergone the state of medical knowledge in respect to the diseases most elaborate revision, and additions of an importof women that has yet been published.-Am. Journ. ant character have been made, to render it a comMed. Sciences, July, 1857. plete exponent of the present state of our knowledge of these diseases.-N. Y. Journ. of Med., Sept. 1857. We know of no author who deserves that approbation, 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 Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery. We hail with much pleasure the volume before us, thoroughly revised, corrected, and brought up to the latest date, by Dr. Churchill himself, and rendered still more valuable by notes, from the ex perienced and able pen of Dr. D. F. Condie.- Southern Med. and Surg. Journal, Oct. 1857. This work is the most reliable which we possess on this subject; and is deservedly popular with the profession-Charleston Med. Journal, July, 1857. Dr. Churchill's treatise on the Diseases of Women is, perhaps, the most popular of his works with the profession in this country. It has been very gene As a comprehensive manual for students, or a work of reference for practitioners, it surpasses any other that has ever issued on the same subject from the British press.-Dublin Quart, Journal, DICKSON (S. H.), M. D., Professor of Practice of Medicine in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. ELEMENTS OF MEDICINE; a Compendious View of Pathology and Therapeutics, or the History and Treatment of Diseases. Second edition, revised. In one large and handsome octavo volume, of 750 pages, leather. $3 75. (Just Issued.) The steady demand which has so soon exhausted the first edition of this work, sufficiently shows that the author was not mistaken in supposing that a volume of this character was needed-an elementary manual of practice, which should present the leading principles of medicine with the practical results, in a condensed and perspicuous manner. Disencumbered of unnecessary detail and fruitless speculations, it embodies what is most requisite for the student to learn, and at the same time what the active practitioner wants when obliged, in the daily calls of his profession, to refresh his memory on special points. The clear and attractive style of the author renders the whole easy of comprehension, while his long experience gives to his teachings an authority everywhere acknowledged. Few physicians, indeed, have had wider opportunities for observation and experience, and few, perhaps, have used them to better purpose. As the result of a long life devoted to study and practice, the present edition, revised and brought up to the date of publication. will doubtless maintain the reputation already acquired as a condensed and convenient American text-book on the Practice of Medicine. A few notices of the first edition are appended. This book is eminently what it professes to be; a ! distinguished merit in these days. Designed for "Teachers and Students of Medicine," and admirably suited to their wants, we think it will be received, on its own merits, with a hearty welcome.-Boston Med. and Surg. Journal. Indited by one of the most accomplished writers of our country, as well as by one who has long held a high position among teachers and practitioners of medicine, this work is entitled to patronage and careful study. The learned author has endeavored to condense in this volume most of the practical matter contained in his former productions, so as to adapt it to the use of those who have not time to devote to more extensive works.-Southern Med. and Surg. Journal. Prof. Dickson's work supplies, to a great extent, a desideratum long felt in American medicine.-N. O. Med. and Surg. Journal. Not professing to be a complete and comprehensive treatise, it will not be found full in detail, nor filled with discussions of theories and opinions, but embracing all that is essential in theory and practice, it is admirably adapted to the wants of the American student. Avoiding all that is uncertain, it presenta more clearly to the mind of the reader that which is established and verified by experience. The varied and extensive reading of the author is conspicuously apparent, and all the recent improvements and discoveries in therapeutics and pathology are chroni cled in its pages.-Charleston Med. Journal. In the first part of the work the subject of general pathology is presented in outline, giving a beautiful picture of its distinguishing features, and throughout the succeeding chapters we find that he has kept scrupulously within the bounds of sound reasoning and legitimate deduction. Dr. Dickson merits a place in the first rank of American writers -Western Lancet. DRUITT (ROBERT), M. R. C. S., &c. Edited by F. W. SARGENT, M. D., author of "Minor Surgery," &c. Illustrated with one hundred and ninety-three wood-engravings. In one very handsoniely printed octavo volume, leather, of 576 large pages. $3.00. Dr. Druitt's researches into the literature of his subject have been not only extensive, but well directed; 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 preserved, and the chaff is unmercifully stripped off. The arrangement is simple and philosophical, and ! the style, though clear and interesting, 18 80 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. No work, in our opinion, equals it in presenting 50 much valuable surgical matter in so small a compass.-St. Louis Med. and Surgical Journal. DALTON, JR. (J. C.), M. D. Professor of Physiology in the College of Physicians, New York. A TREATISE ON HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY, designed for the use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine. With two hundred and fifty-four illustrations on wood. In one very beautiful octavo volume, of over 600 pages, extra cloth, $400; leather, raised bands, $4 25. (Just Issued.) This system of Physiology, both from the excellence of the arrangement studiously observed throughout every page, and the clear, lucid, and instructive manner in which each subject is treated, promises to form one of the most generally received class-books in the English language. It is, in fact, a most admirable epitome of all the really important discoveries that have always been received as incontestable truths, as well as of those which have been recently added to our stock of knowledge on this subject. We will, however, proceed to give a few extracts from the book itself, as a specimen of its style and composition, and this, we conceive, will be quite sufficient to awaken a general interest in a work which is immeasurably superior in its details to the majority of those of the same class to which it belongs. In its purity of style and elegance of composition it may safely take its place with the very best of our English classics; while in accuracy of description it is impossible that it could be surpass ed. In every line is beautifully shadowed forth the emanations of the polished scholar, whose reflections are clothed in a garb as interesting as they are impressive; with the one predominant feeling appearing to pervade the whole-an anxious desire to please and at the same time to instruct.-Dublin Quarterly Journ. of Med. Sciences, Nov. 1859. its author; to his talents, his industry, his training; to the institution with which he is connected, and to American science.-Boston Med. and Surgical Journal, Feb. 24, 1859. A NEW book and a first rate one; an original book, and which we are proud to see emanating from our and one which cannot be too highly appreciated, country's press. It is by an author who, though young, is considerably famous for physiological research, and who in this work has erected for himself an enduring monument, a token at once of his labor and his success.-Nashville Medical Journal, March, 1859. Throughout the entire work, the definitions are clear and precise, the arrangement admirable, the argument briefly and well stated, and the style nervous, simple, and concise. Section third, treating of Reproduction, is a monograph of unapproached excellence, upon this subject, in the English tongue. For precision, elegance and force of style, exhaustive method and extent of treatment, fulness of illustration and weight of personal research, we know of no American contribution to medical science which surpasses it, and the day is far distant when its claims to the respectful attention of even the best informed scholars will not be cheerfully conceded by all acquainted with its range and depth.-Charleston Med. Journal, May, 1859. A new elementary work on Human Physiology editions of Kirke's, Carpenter's, Todd and Bowshould have something superior in the matter or the man's, to say nothing of Durglison's and Draper's, manner of its utterance in order to win for itself deserved attention and a name. That matter and that manner, after a candid perusal, we think distinguish this work, and we are proud to welcome it not merely for its nativity's sake, but for its own intrinsic excellence. Its language we find to be The work before us, however, in our humble judgment, is precisely what it purports to be, and will answer admirably the purpose for which it is in-lifting up its voice in the presence of late and sturdy tended. It is par excellence, a text-book; and the best text-book in this department that we have ever seen. We have carefully read the book, and speak of its merits from a more than cursory perusal. Looking back upon the work we have just finished, we must say a word concerning the excellence of its illustrations. No department is so dependent upon good illustrations, and those which keep pace with our knowledge of the subject, as that of physiology: The wood-cuts in the work before us are the best we have ever seen, and, being original, serve to illustrate precisely what is desired Buffalo Med. Journal, March, 1859. A book of genuine merit like this deserves hearty praise before subjecting it to any minute criticism. We are not prepared to find any fault with its design until we have had more time to appreciate its merits as a manual for daily consultation, and to weigh its statements and conclusions more deliberately. Its excellences we are sure of; its defects we have yet to discover. It is a work highly honorable to plain, direct, unambitious, and falling with a just conciseness on hypothetical or unsettled questions, and yet with sufficient fulness on those living topics already understood, or the path to whose solution is definitely marked out. It does not speak exhaustively upon every subject that it notices, but it does speak suggestively, experimentally, and to their main utilities. Into the subject of Reproduction our author plunges with a kind of loving spirit. Throughout this interesting and obscure department he is a clear and admirable teacher, sometimes a brilliant leader.-Am. Med. Monthly, May, 1859. DUNGLISON, FORBES, TWEEDIE, AND CONOLLY. THE CYCLOPÆDIA 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, with raised bands. $12 00. *** This work contains no less than four hundred and eighteen distinct treatises, contributed by sixty-eight distinguished physicians, rendering it a complete library of reference for the country practitioner. The most complete work on Practical Medicine extant; or, at least, in our language.-Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal. For reference, it is above all price to every prac titioner. Western Lancet. One of the most valuable medical publications of the day-as a work of reference it is invaluable.Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery. It has been to us, both as learner and teacher, a work for ready and frequent reference, one in which modern English medicine is exhibited in the most advantageous light.-Medical Examiner. We rejoice that this work is to be placed within the reach of the profession in this country, it being anquestionably one of very great value to the pracDEWEES'S COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM of MIDWIFERY. Illustrated by occasional cases and many engravings. Twelfth edition, with the author's last improvements and corrections one octavo volume, extra cloth, of 600 pages. 83 20. DEWEES'S TREATISE ON THE PHYSICAL In titioner. This estimate of it has not been formed from a hasty examination, but after an intimate acquaintance derived from frequent consultation of it practitioners of established reputation, and the list during the past nine or ten years. The editors are of contributors embraces many of the most eminent professors and teachers of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Glasgow. It is, indeed, the great merit of this work that the principal articles have been furnished by practitioners who have not only devoted especial attention to the diseases about which they have written, but have also enjoyed opportunities for an extensive practical acquaintance with them, and whose reputation carries the assurance of their competency justly to appreciate the opinions of others, while it stamps their own doctrines with high and just authority.-American Medical Journ. AND MEDICAL TREATMENT OF CHILDREN. The last edition. In one volume, octavo, extra cloth, 54 pages. $2.80 DEWEES'S TREATISE ON THE DISEASES OF FEMALES. Tenth edition. In one volume, octavo extra cloth, 532 pages, with plates. $3.00 |