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. BY R. LA ROCHE, M. D. In two large and handsome octavo volumes of nearly 1500 pages; extra cloth, $7. The publishers are happy in being able at length to present to the profession this great work, which they are assured will be regarded as an honor to the medical literature of the country. As the result of many years of personal observation and study, as embodying an intelligent résumé of all that has been written regarding the disease, and as exhausting the subject in all its various aspects, these volumes must at once take the position of the standard authority and work of reference on the many important questions brought into consideration. From Professor S. H. Dickson, Charleston, S. C. A monument of intelligent and well-applied research, almost without example. It is, indeed, in itself, a large library, and is destined to constitute the special resort as a book of reference, on the subject of which it treats, to all future time. We have not time at present, engaged as we are, by day and by night, in the work of combating this very disease, now prevailing in our city, to do more than give this cursory notice of what we consider as undoubtedly the most able and erudite medical publica tion our country has yet produced. But in view of the startling fact, that this, the most malignant and unmanageable disease of modern times, has for several years been prevailing in our country to a greater extent than ever before; that it is no longer confined to either large or small cities, but penetrates country villages, plantations, and farm-houses; that it is treated with scarcely better success now than thirty or forty years ago; that there is vast mischief done by ignorant pretenders to knowledge in regard to the disease, and in view of the probability that a majority of southern physicians will be called upon to treat the disease, we trust that this able and comprehensive treatise will be very generally read in the south.-Memphis Med. Recorder. This is decidedly the great American medical work of the day-a full, complete, and systematic treatise, unequalled by any other upon the all-important subject of Yellow Fever. The laborious, indefatigable, and learned author has devoted to it many years of arduous research and careful study, and the result is such as will reflect the highest honor upon the author and our country.-Southern Med. and Surg. Journal. The genius and scholarship of this great physician could not have been better employed than in the erection of this towering monument to his own fame, and to the glory of the medical literature of his own country. It is destined to remain the great authority upon the subject of Yellow Fever. The student and physician will find in these volumes a résumé of the sum total of the knowledge of the world upon the awful Scourge which they so elaborately discuss. The style is so soft and so pure as to refresh and invigorate the mind while absorbing the thoughts of the gifted author, while the publishers have succeeded in bringing the externals into a most felicitous harmony with the inspiration that dwells within. Take it all in all, it is a book we have often dreamed of, but dreamed not that it would ever meet our waking eye as a tangible reality.-Nashville Journal of Medicine. We deem it fortunate that the splendid work of Dr. La Roche should have been issued from the press at this particular time. The want of a reliable digest of all that is known in relation to this frightful malady has long been felt-a want very satisfactorily met in the work before us. We deem it but faint praise to say that Dr. La Roche has succeeded in presenting the profession with an able and complete monograph, one which will find its way into every well ordered library. -Va. Stethoscope. Although we have no doubt that controversial treatises on the mode of origin and propagation of the fever in question will, as heretofore, occasionally appear, yet it must be some time before another systematic work can arise in the face of so admirable and carefully executed a one as the present. It is a mine of information, quite an encyclopædia of references, and résumé of knowledge relative to what has been recorded upon the subject.-London Lancet. A miracle of industry and research, constituting a complete library of reference on the disease of which it treats.-Dublin Quarterly Journal. Dr. La Roche's work embodies all that is wanted. It is a compendium of the whole vast literature of Yellow Fever. Thanks to his labors, the medical scholar who desires to be profoundly conversant with all that pertains to the subject need not go beyond these two portly volumes. As embodying whatever is important in all that has been hitherto written on the subject, it will be a work for reference not less valuable in ages to come than now. Its merit, however, by no means consists solely in its completeness as an encyclopædian work. The author presents the conclusions to which he is led by a philosophical investigation of the facts and opinions gathered from past and contemporaneous publications. Of the soundness of the conclusions the reader can judge from the data which are spread before him.-Buffalo Med. Journal, Sept. 1856. By the same Author. PNEUMONIA; its Supposed Connection, Pathological and Etiological, with Autumnal Fevers, including an Inquiry into the Existence and Morbid Agency of Malaria. In one handsome octavo volume, extra cloth, of 500 pages. $3. ON DISEASES OF THE LIVER. BY GEORGE BUDD, M. D., F. R. S., Professor of Medicine in King's College, London, &c. Third American, from the Third and Enlarged London Edition. Has fairly established for itself a place among the classical medical literature of England.-British and Foreign Medico-Chir. Review, July, 1857. Dr. Budd's Treatise on Diseases of the Liver is now a standard work in Medical literature, and during the intervals which have elapsed between the successive editions, the author has incorporated into the text the most striking novelties which have characterized the recent progress of hepatic physiology and pathology; so that although the size of the book is not percepti bly changed, the history of liver diseases is made more complete, and is kept upon a level with the progress of modern science. It is the best work on diseases of the liver in any language.-London Med. Times and Gazette, June 27, 1857. This work, now the standard book of reference on the diseases of which it treats, has been carefully revised, and many new illustrations of the views of the learned author added in the present edition.-Dublin Quarterly Journal, Aug. 1857. By the same Author. ON THE ORGANIC DISEASES AND FUNCTIONAL DISORDERS OF THE STOMACH. In one neat octavo volume, of two hundred and fifty pages, extra cloth, $1 50. LALLEMAND AND WILSON ON SPERMATORRHOEA. A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, AND TREATMENT OF SPERMATORRHOEA. By M. LALLEMAND. Translated and edited by HENRY J. MCDOUGALL Third American edition. To which is added-ON DISEASES OF THE VESICULE SEMINALES, AND THEIR ASSOCIATED ORGANS. With special reference to the Morbid Secretions of the Prostatic and Urethral Mucous Membrane. By MARRIS WILSON, M. D. In one neat octavo volume, of about 400 pp., extra cloth. $2. FEVERS, THEIR DIAGNOSIS, PATHOLOGY, AND COPLAND ON PALSY.-Of the Causes, Nature, and BUCKLER ON THE ETIOLOGY, PATHOLOGY, FLINT ON RESPIRATORY ORGANS. PHYSICAL EXPLORATION AND DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASES AFFECTING THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS. BY AUSTIN FLINT, M. D., Professor of Clinical Medicine and Pathology in the University of Buffalo, &c. In one large and handsome octavo volume of six hundred and thirty-six pages; extra cloth, $3. Dr. Flint is one of the most industrious and energetic men in the medical profession of this country. His previous contributions to our medical literature have won for him both American and European reputation, and we assure our readers that the present volume is full of valuable and interesting matter. We unhesitatingly commend the book to all who wish to become well acquainted with thoracic diseases and the signs by which they may be distinguished.-N. W. Med. and Surg. Journal, Nov. 1856. We can only state our general impression of the high value of this work, and cordially recommend it to all. We regard it, in point both of arrangement and of the marked ability of its treatment of the subjects, as destined to take the first rank in works of this class. So far as our information extends, it has at present no equal. To the practitioner, as well as the student, it will be invaluable in clearing up the diagnosis of doubtful cases, and in shedding light upon difficult phenomena.-Buffalo Med. Journal. A work of original observation of the highest merit. We recommend the treatise to every one who wishes to become a correct auscultator. Based to a very large extent upon cases numerically examined, it carries the evidences of careful study and discrimination upon every page. It does credit to the author, and, through him, to the profession in this country. It is, what we cannot call every book upon auscultation, a readable book.-Am. Journal Med. Sciences. This is the most elaborate work devoted exclusively to the physical exploration of diseases of the lungs, with which we are acquainted in the English language. From the high standing of the author as a clinical teacher, and his known devotion, during many years, to the study of thoracic diseases, much was to be expected from the announcement of his determination to embody in the form of a treatise, the results of his study and experience.-Boston Med. and Surg. Journal. By the same Author-(Just Issued.) A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE DIAGNOSIS, PATHOLOGY, AND TREATMENT OF DISEASES OF THE HEART. In one neat octavo volume, of nearly 500 pages, extra cloth, $2 75. In regard to the merits of the work, we have no hesitation in pronouncing it full, accurate, and judicious. Considering the present state of science, such a work was much needed. It should be in the hands of every practitioner.-Chicago Med. Journal, April, 1860. With more than pleasure do we hail the advent of this work, for it fills a wide gap on the list of textbooks for our schools, and is, for the practitioner, the most valuable practical work of its kind.-N. O. Med. News, Nov. 1859. MEDICAL NOTES AND REFLECTIONS. BY SIR HENRY HOLLAND, BART., F. R. S., Physician in Ordinary to the Queen, &c. FROM THE THIRD AND ENLARGED ENGLISH EDITION. In one handsome octavo volume of about five hundred pages, extra cloth, $300. CLINICAL LECTURES ON CERTAIN DISEASES OF THE URINARY ORGANS, AND ON DROPSIES. BY ROBERT BENTLEY TODD, M. D., F. R. S., Physician to King's College Hospital, &c. In one handsome octavo volume, of 270 pages, extra cloth, $1 50. By the same Author-(Now Ready.) CLINICAL LECTURES ON CERTAIN ACUTE DISEASES. PATHOLOGICAL AND PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON DISEASES OF THE ALIMENTARY CANAL, ESOPHAGUS, STOMACH, CECUM, AND INTESTINES. By S. O. HABERSHON, M. D., Assistant Physician to and Lecturer on Materia Medica and Therapeutics at Guy's Hospital. He takes us well through all the diseases, structural and functional (as they are called), of the alimentary canal. He begins at the pharynx, and carefully and honestly follows the tube through all its constrictions, dilatations, divarications, and appendices. He tells us what misfortunes happen at every part of it; he describes the particular seat of the disease at each conventional division of the apparatus; their anatomical characters (when they have any); their general pathology; the symptoms they excite; the conditions of the system with which they are coincident; the particular general disorder with which they are associated; and he also tells us what aids medicine offers man to help him through these numerous dangers and difficulties; and how those aids are to be wisely used to their ends. The practitioner will find it a valuable work of reference.-London Med. Times and Gaz., Nov. 7, 1857. Dr. Habershon abstains, as a rule, from speculations, and confines himself mainly to the record of facts relating to symptoms, morbid changes, and treatment. His remarks are illustrated by the histories of one Chronic Ulcer of Stomach. hundred and sixty-three cases, recorded in the casebooks of Guy's Hospital, descriptive of the numerous forms of disease of the alimentary canal. The book is therefore essentially practical; and on this ground, and bearing evidence of being the work of a careful observer, it forms an addition of value to the already existing literature of Diseases of the Alimentary Canal. British Med. Journal, Nov. 21, 1857. Amongst the valuable treatises we have pointed out there yet existed room for a work which should deal but little with theory and scientific analyses, but confine itself to the record of direct bedside and postmortem room results. Dr. Habershon's treatise supplies this deficiency. We recommend Dr. Habershon's treatise as a valuable repertory of clinical experience, of very trustworthy character.-London Lancet, Nov. 21, 1857. We believe that this book will be read with interest. It is calculated to impart instruction to all of us.Brit. and For. Medico-Chirurg. Review, April, 1858. WALSHE ON THE LUNGS-(Now Ready.) DISEASES OF THE LUNGS, BY WALTER HAYLE WALSHE, M. D., Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine in University Medical College, &c. A new American, from the third revised and much enlarged London edition. In one neat octavo volume, of nearly 500 pages, extra cloth, price $2 25. The additions and alterations introduced in this edition enable the author to state that "it may be said in the main to be rewritten," and while every portion has had the full benefit of the revision, the section devoted to TREATMENT has received special attention, and has been largely extended. The work will no doubt, therefore, in its present improved form, fully maintain the very high position accorded to the previous edition. We have no hesitation in recommending the work as one of the most complete on this subject in the English language; and yet it is not so voluminous as to be objectionable on this account, to any practitioner, however pressing his engagements.-Ohio Medical and Surgical Journal. To be followed by a similar volume on It is far in advance of any other Treatise on Diseases of the Chest, either in this or any other country. To the practitioner, the clinical teacher, and the student, this work will prove alike invaluable.-London Medical Times. DISEASES OF THE HEART. RICORD AND HUNTER ON VENEREAL-(Just Issued.) A TREATISE ON THE VENEREAL DISEASE. BY JOHN HUNTER, F. R. S., &c. WITH COPIOUS ADDITIONS BY PH. RICORD, M. D. Second Edition, containing a résumé of Ricord's recent Lectures on Chancre. TRANSLATED AND EDITED, WITH NOTES, BY FREEMAN J. BUMSTEAD, M. D., Lecturer on Venereal at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. In one large and handsome octavo volume of 550 pages, with eight plates; extra cloth, $3 25. "M. Ricord's annotations to Hunter's Treatise on the Venereal Disease were first published at Paris, in 1840, in connection with Dr. G. Richelot's translation of the work, including the contributions of Sir Everard Home and Mr. Babington. In a second edition, which has recently appeared, M. Ricord has thoroughly revised his part of the work, bringing it up to the knowledge of the present day, and so materially increasing it that it now constitutes full one-third of the volume. This publication has been received with great favor by the French, both because it has placed within their reach an important work of Hunter, and also because it is the only recent practical work which M. Ricord has published, no edition of his Traité des Maladies Vénériennes having appeared for the last fifteen years.' "-Translator's Preface. The addition, in the present edition, of the material contained in the "Lectures on Chancre," published a few months since by M. Ricord, renders this work the most complete embodiment of the views of the great French syphilographer that has yet been given to the profession, while the editor has further endeavored to present all other matter of interest that has appeared since the publication of the first edition. The volume may therefore be regarded as a complete work of reference on the subject in which the practitioner may at all times be certain of finding an elucidation of doubtful questions either of theory or practice. 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 complete embodiment of the veritable doctrines of the Hôpital 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 himself 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 conclusion, 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.-Va. Med. and Surg. Journ. Also-HUNTER'S COMPLETE WORKS. In four octavo volumes, with numerous Illustrations; leather, $10 00. RICORD'S LETTERS ON SYPHILIS, Addressed to the Chief Editor of the Union Médicale. With an Introduction by Amédée Latour. Translated by W. P. Lattimore, M. D. In one neat octavo volume, extra cloth, $2. THE MODERN TREATMENT OF SYPHILITIC DISEASES, both Primary and Secondary; comprising the treatment of Constitutional and Confirmed Syphilis by a safe and successful method. With numerous Cases, Formulæ, and Clinical Observations. By LANGSTON PARKER, Surgeon to the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham. From the third and entirely rewritten London edition. In one neat octavo volume of over 300 pages, extra cloth, $1 75. The third edition of Mr. Parker's work constitutes, has contrived to embody in it everything of importwe must say, an excellent practical treatise, the sub- ance respecting syphilis and its treatment.-Dublin ject is remarkably well arranged; indeed, the author Medical Press. LECTURES ON THE PRINCIPLES AND METHODS OF MEDICAL OBSERVATION AND RESEARCH. For the use of Advanced Students and Junior Practitioners. By THOMAS LAYCOCK, M. D., F. R.S. E., Professor of Practical and Clinical Medicine in the University of Edinburgh, etc. In one very neat royal 12mo. vol., extra cloth, $1. THE PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS, and on the local Medication of Pharyngeal and Laryngeal Diseases frequently mistaken for or associated with Phthisis. By J. HUGHES BENNETT, M. D., F. R.S E., Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University of Edinburgh, &c. In one small octavo volume, extra cloth, with beautiful illustrations. $1 25. |