OF

BLANCHARD AND LEA'S

MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS.

TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.

The prices on the present catalogue are those at which our books can generally be furnished by booksellers throughout the United States, who can readily procure any which they may not have on hand. To physicians who have not convenient access to bookstores, we will forward them by mail, at these prices free of postage (as long as the existing facilities a afforded by the post office) for any distance under 3,000 miles. As we open counts only with books".

ers, the amount must in every case, without exception, accompany the oru and we assume no risks of the mail, either on the money or on be books; and as we deal only in our own publications, we can supply no rs Gentlemen desirous of purchasing will, therefore, find it more advantageous to deal with the nearest booksellers whenever practicable.

PHILADELPHIA, September, 1860.

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THE AMERICAN MEDICAL JOURNAL.

TWO MEDICAL PERIODICALS, FREE OF POSTAGE, FOR FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.

THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES, subject to postage, when not paid for in advance

THE MEDICAL NEWS AND LIBRARY, invariably in advance

or, BOTH PERIODICALS furnished, FREE OF POSTAGE, for Five Dollars remitted in advance.

$500

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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 about three hundred large octavo pages, appropriately illustrated, wherever necessary. It has now been issued regularly for nearly FORTY years, and during a quarter of a century it has been under the control of the present editor. 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 entire profession in this country. Among the Collaborators will be found a large number of the most distinguished names of the profession 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 of the Journal, however, is to combine the advantages presented by all the different varieties of periodicals, in its

* The attention of physicians throughout the Union is invited to the pages of the Journal as affording, by its very extended circulation, a most eligible means for presenting their views to the profession. All elaborate articles and original investigations accepted and inserted by the Editor are paid for by the Publishers.

REVIEW DEPARTMENT

will be found extended and impartial reviews of all important new works, presenting subjects of novelty and interest, together with very numerous

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

QUARTERLY SUMMARY,

being a very full and complete abstract, methodically arranged, of the

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 h as to afford the editor complete materials for this purpose, as he not only regularly receives an the American medical and scientific periodicals, but also twenty or thirty of the more important Journals issued in Great Britain and on the Continent, 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 publishers feel 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 standard works on various branches of medicine. Within a few years, subscribers have thus received, without expense, such books as WATSON'S PRACTICE, MALGAIGNE'S SURGERY, TODD AND BOWMAN'S PHYSIOLOGY, WEST ON CHILDREN, HABERSHON ON THE STOMACH, &C. While the work at present appearing in its pages is

CLINICAL LECTURES

ON THE DISEASES

OF WOMEN.

BY J. Y. SIMPSON, M. D.,

Professor of Midwifery, &c., in the University of Edinburgh.

With numerous Illustrations on Wood.

The importance of the subject, and the distinguished position of the author cannot fail to render this work of the highest practical value to subscribers. Commenced in January, 1860, those who subscribe for the present year can thus secure it from the beginning Sixteen or twenty pages (so arranged as to be readily detached for binding on completion) will generally be devoted to it in every number, while the remainder of the periodical will contain, as heretofore. a choice selection of important clinical reports, together with topics of immediate interest, domestic and foreign.

It will thus be seen that for the small sum of FIVE DOLLARS, paid in advance, the subscriber 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.

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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 will now take the risk of remittances by mail, only requiring, in cases of loss, a certificate from the subscriber's Postmaster, that the money was duly mailed and forwarded.

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NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION-(Just Issued.)

MEDICAL LEXICON;

A DICTIONARY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE,

CONTAINING

A Concise Explanation of the Various Subjects and Terms of

ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, PATHOLOGY, HYGIENE, THERAPEUTICS, PHARMACOLOGY, PHARMACY, SURGERY, OBSTETRICS, MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE, DENTISTRY, &c.,

NOTICES OF CLIMATE AND OF MINERAL WATERS;

FORMULE FOR OFFICINAL. EMPIRICAL, AND DIETETIC PREPARATIONS, ETC.

WITH FRENCH AND OTHER SYNONYMES.

BY ROBLEY DUNGLISON, M. D.,

Professor of Institutes of Medicine in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.

Fifteenth Edition, Revised and very greatly Enlarged.

In one very large and handsome octavo volume, of 992 double-columned pages, in small type; strongly bound in leather, with raised nds. Price $4.

Especial care has been devoted in the preparation of this edition to render it in every respect worthy a continuance of the very remarkable favor which it has hitherto enjoyed. The rapid sale of FIFTEEN large editions, and the constantly increasing demand, show that it is regarded by the profession as the standard authority. Stimulated by this fact, the author has endeavored in the present revision to introduce whatever might be necessary "to make it a satisfactory and desirable-if not indispensable-lexicon, in which the student may search without disappointment for every term that has been legitimated in the nomenclature of the science" To accomplish this, large additions have been found requisite, and the extent of the author's labors may be estimated from the fact that about SIX THOUSAND subjects and terms have been introduced throughout, rendering the whole number of definitions about SIXTY THOUSAND, to accommodate which, the number of pages has been increased by nearly a hundred, notwithstanding an enlargement in the size of the page. The medical press, both in this country and in England, has pronounced the work indispensable to all medical students and practitioners, and the present improved edition will not lose that enviable reputation.

The publishers have endeavored to render the mechanical execution worthy of a volume of such universal use in daily reference. The greatest care has been exercised to obtain the typographical accuracy so necessary in a work of the kind. By the small but exceedingly clear type employed, an immense amount of matter is condensed in its thousand ample pages, while the binding will be found strong and durable. With all these improvements and enlargements, the price has been kept at the former very moderate rate, placing it within the reach of all.

This work, the appearance of the fifteenth edition of which it has become our duty and pleasure to announce, is perhaps the most stupendous monument of labor and erudition in medical literature. One would hardly suppose after constant use of the preceding editions, where we have never failed to find a sufficiently full explanation of every medical term, that in this edition "about six thousand subjects and terms have been added," with a careful revision and correction of the entire work. It is only necessary to announce the advent of this edition to make it occupy the place of the preceding one on the table of every medical man, as it is without doubt the best and most comprehensive work of the kind which has ever appeared.-Buffalo Med. Journ., Jan. 1858.

The work is a monument of patient research, skilful judgment, and vast physical labor, that will perpetuate the name of the author more effectually than any possible device of stone or metal. Dr. Dunglison deserves the thanks not only of the American profession, but of the whole medical world.-North Am. MedicoChir. Review, Jan. 1858.

A Medical Dictionary better adapted for the wants of the profession than any other with which we are acquainted, and of a character which places it far above comparison and competition.-American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Jan. 1858.

We need only say, that the addition of 6,000 new terms, with their accompanying definitions, may be said to constitute a new work by itself. We have examined the Dictionary attentively, and are most happy to pronounce it unrivalled of its kind. The erudition displayed, and the extraordinary industry which must have been demanded, in its preparation and perfection, redound to the lasting credit of its author, and have furnished us with a volume indispensable at the present day, to all who would find themselves au niveau with the highest standards of medical information.-Boston Med. and Surg. Journal, Dec. 31, 1857.

Good lexicons and encyclopedic works generally, are the most labor-saving contrivances which literary men enjoy; and the labor which is required to produce them in the perfect manner of this example is something appalling to contemplate. The author tells us in his preface that he has added about six thousand terms and subjects to this edition, which, before, was considered universally as the best work of the kind in any language.-Silliman's Journal, March, 1858.

A very perfect work of the kind, undoubtedly the most perfect in the English language.-Med. and Surg. Reporter, Jan. 1858.

The most complete authority on the subject to be found in any language.-Va. Med. Journal, Feb. 1858.

New and Improved Edition-Just Issued.

AN ANALYTICAL COMPENDIUM

OF THE VARIOUS BRANCHES OF MEDICAL SCIENCE. For the Use and Examination of Students.

BY JOHN NEILL, M. D.,

SURGEON TO THE PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL, ETC.,

AND

FRANCIS GURNEY SMITH, M. D.,

PROFESSOR OF INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE IN THE PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL COLLEGE, ETC.
A NEW EDITION, REVISED AND IMPROVED,

With Three Hundred and Seventy-four Illustrations.

In one very large and handsome royal 12mo. volume of nearly 1000 pages, strongly bound in leather, with raised bands. $3.

The very flattering reception which has been accorded to this work, and the high estimate placed upon it by the profession, as evinced by the constant and increasing demand which has rapidly exhausted two large editions, have stimulated the authors to render the volume in its present revision more worthy of the success which has attended it. It has accordingly been thoroughly examined, and such errors as had on former occasions escaped observation have been corrected, and whatever additions were necessary to maintain it on a level with the advance of science have been introduced The extended series of illustrations has been still further increased and much improved, while, by a slight enlargement of the page, these various additions have been incorporated without increasing the bulk of the volume.

The work is therefore again presented as eminently worthy of the favor with which it has hitherto been received. As a book for daily reference by the student requiring a guide to his more elaborate text-books, as a manual for preceptors desiring to stimulate their students by frequent and accurate examination, or as a source from which the practitioners of older date may easily and cheaply acquire a knowledge of the changes and improvement in professional science, its reputation is permanently established.

The Compend of Drs. Neill and Smith is incompara bly the most valuable work of its class ever published in this country. Attempts have been made in various quarters to squeeze Anatomy, Physiology, Surgery, the Practice of Medicine, Obstetrics, Materia Medica, and Chemistry into a single manual; but the operation has signally failed in the hands of all up to the advent of "Neill and Smith's" volume, which is quite a miracle of success. The outlines of the whole are admirably drawn and illustrated, and the authors are eminently entitled to the grateful consideration of the student

of every class.-N. O. Med. and Surg. Journ., May, 1856. This popular favorite with the student is so well known that it requires no more at the hands of a medical editor than the annunciation of a new and improved edition. There is no sort of comparison between this work and any other on a similar plan, and for a similar object.-Nashville Journal of Medicine, Sept. 1856.

The

There are but few students or practitioners of medicine unacquainted with the former editions of this unassuming though highly instructive work. whole science of medicine appears to have been sifted, as the gold-bearing sands of El Dorado, and the precious facts treasured up in this little volume. A complete portable library so condensed that the student may make it his constant pocket companion.-Western Lancet, May, 1856.

To compress the whole science of medicine in less than 1,000 pages is an impossibility, but we think that the book before us approaches as near to it as is possible. Altogether, it is the best of its class, and has met with a deserved success. As an elementary text-book for students, it has been useful, and will continue to be employed in the examination of private classes, whilst it will often be referred to by the country practitioner.-Va. Med. Journal, May, 1856.

NEW AND MUCH ENLARGED EDITION-(Just Issued.)

A MANUAL OF EXAMINATIONS

UPON

ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, SURGERY, PRACTICE OF MEDICINE,
CHEMISTRY, OBSTETRICS, MATERIA MEDICA, PHAR-
MACY, AND THERAPEUTICS:

TO WHICH IS ADDED A MEDICAL FORMULARY.
BY J. L. LUDLOW, M. D.

A new Edition, thoroughly modified, and greatly extended and enlarged,
With three hundred and seventy wood engravings,

The great popularity which this volume has always enjoyed, has stimulated the author in his revision to render it in every respect worthy of the confidence of the profession, giving rise to the delay which has caused it to remain out of print for so long a time Every portion has been sedulously examined, and the most recent observations and investigations introduced, rendering it an accurate résumé of the most improved condition of medical science. A considerable portion has been rewritten, and entire sections on Physiology and Organic Chemistry have been added, while a very complete series of illustrations has been introduced, elucidating the text wherever such assistance appeared necessary or desirable. Notwithstanding an enlargement of the page, these improvements have increased the size of the volume to over eight hundred pages, and with the greatly improved style of mechanical execution, it may in almost every respect be regarded rather as a new work than a new edition.

The arrangement of the volume in the form of question and answer renders it especially suitable for the office examination of students, and for those preparing for graduation.

We would recommend this book as one of the best of its kind, and to every right-minded student a most valuable aid in acquiring the Facts of Medical Science. -South. Med. and Surg. Journ., Nov. 1857.

In the main, we regard his work as well adapted for its professed object, and that the author's claims are valid. Abundant illustrations of the text are furnished by means of wood cuts, well executed; a decided advantage and help to the student.-Penin Jour. of Med., Aug. 1857.

see but Dr Ludlow's work is as good as any other of the kind. The peculiarity which distinguishes it from some others of the same class, consists in the form of question and answer in which it is written. We commend it to the notice of the student who feels that he must rely on such a work before being confidentially closeted with his friends, the professors, previous to a final departure.-N. J. Med. Reporter, Aug. 1857.

The illustrations are good; and the system of questions and answers are as well arranged as the student seeking this kind of help will probably desire.

For the purpose for which it is intended, we do not Charleston Med. Jour., July, 1857.