New and Improved Edition—(Just Issued.)

WOMAN; HER DISEASES AND REMEDIES.

A SERIES OF LETTERS TO HIS CLASS.

BY CHARLES D. MEIGS, M. D.,

Professor of Midwifery, and Diseases of Women and Children, in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. FOURTH EDITION, REVISED.

In one large and handsome octavo volume of over seven hundred pages; leather, $3 60. The gratifying appreciation of his labors, as evinced by the exhaustion of three large impressions of this work, has not been lost upon the author, who has endeavored in every way to render it worthy of the favor with which it has been received. The opportunity thus afforded for another revision has been improved, and the work is now presented as in every way superior to its predecessors, additions and alterations having been made wherever 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 volume, it is hoped, will be found in all respects worthy to maintain the position it has acquired as the standard American text-book on the Diseases of Females. A few notices of the previous editions are appended.

victions of its superlative merits. But we do not now deem it necessary to say more than to commend this work, on the diseases of women, and the remedies for them, to the attention of those practitioners who have not supplied themselves with it. The most select library would be imperfect without it.-The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery.

On its first appearance we had occasion to speak of it in terms of merited commendation. In announcing the third edition, it is only necessary to say that it has been thoroughly revised and much enlarged by its distinguished author so as greatly to enhance its value and usefulness.-St. Louis Med. and Surg. Journ. Replete with sound practical views, and evidently the production of a man of vast experience and tho- There is an off-hand fervor, a glow and a warmroughly conversant with the subject.-Medical Chro-heartedness infecting the effort of Dr. Meigs, which is nicle.

He is a bold thinker, and possesses more originality of thought and style than almost any American writer on medical subjects. If he is not an elegant writer, there is at least a freshness-a raciness in his mode of expressing himself-that cannot fail to draw the reader after him even to the close of his work; you cannot nod over his pages; he stimulates rather than narcotises your senses, and the reader cannot lay aside these letters when once he enters into their merits. This the second edition is much amended and enlarged, and affords abundant evidence of the author's talents and industry.-N. O. Medical and Surgical Journal. The practical writings of Dr. Meigs are second to none.-The N. Y. Journal of Medicine.

The excellent practical directions contained in this volume, give it great utility, which we trust will not be lost upon our older colleagues; with some condensation, indeed, we should think it well adapted for translation into German.-Zeitschrift fur die Gesammte

Medecin.

The merits of the first edition of this work were so generally appreciated, and with such a high degree of favor by the medical profession throughout the Union, that we are not surprised in seeing a second edition of it. It is a standard work on the diseases of females, and in many respects is one of the very best of its kind in the English language. Upon the appearance of the first edition, we gave the work a cordial reception, and spoke of it in the warmest terms of commendation. Time has not changed the favorable estimate we placed upon it, but has rather increased our con

entirely captivating, and which absolutely hurries the reader through from beginning to end. Besides, the book teems with solid instruction, and it shows the very highest evidence of ability, viz., the clearness with which the information is presented. We know of no better test of one's understanding 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 Medical Journal.

That he has succeeded in writing a readable work, in our estimation, we have the best practical evidence in the fact, that, in spite of a deliberate resolve to postpone its perusal, having other more pressing matters on hand, we found ourselves taking it up day after day, at our leisure moments, until the volume was finished. If we may judge of others by our own experience, the student and practitioner will find it an attractive book. The character of the work is infinitely more pleasing to us than if written in a tame, spiritless manner, albeit, in the latter case, it were less obnoxious to criticism. We like to see the man in the book. It shows the author to be a scholar, a man of genius, and as regards matter, when it is considered that Prof. M. ranks among the most talented and learned of the profession of this country, and, we may safely add, of any country, and, moreover, that his experience in his particular province has been immense, it can hardly appear otherwise than that what he may write on the diseases of females shall be deserving of most respectful attention.-Buffalo Medical Journal.

By the same Author.

A TREATISE ON ACUTE AND CHRONIC DISEASES
OF THE NECK OF THE UTERUS.

WITH NUMEROUS PLATES, DRAWN and colored from NATURE IN THE HIGHEST STYLe of art.
In one very handsome octavo volume; extra cloth, $4 50.

A TREATISE ON THE

DISEASES AND SPECIAL HYGIENE OF FEMALES.

BY COLOMBAT DE L'ISERE. Translated from the French, with additions, by CHARLES D. MEIGS, M. D., Professor of Midwifery, and Diseases of Women and Children, in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. A new and revised edition. In one octavo volume of over 700 pages, with numerous illustrations; extra cloth, $3 50.

ON THE DISEASES OF WOMEN, INCLUDING DISEASES OF PREGNANCY AND CHILDBED. BY FLEETWOOD CHURCHILL, M. D., M. R. I. A., Author of "Diseases of Infants and Children," "Theory and Practice of Midwifery," &c. &c. Sixth American Edition, extensively Enlarged and Revised by the Author.

With Notes and Additions

BY D. FRANCIS CONDIE, M. D.,

Author of "A Practical Treatise on Diseases of Children," &c.

On no former edition has the author devoted more labor to render the work a complete and satisfactory resume of the existing state of knowledge on the important questions under consideration. To effect this, extensive additions have been required, some additional chapters inserted, and many portions rewritten. A handsome series of original illustrations of the more important pathological conditions has been prepared, while the mechanical execution of the volume will be found greatly superior to any former edition.

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 universally carried out in practice.-N. Y. Journal of Medicine.

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 students as a masterpiece in its particular department. The former editions of this work have been commended strongly in this journal, and they have won their way to an extended, and a well-deserved popularity. This fifth edition, before us, is well calculated 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 of Dr. Churchill's valuable work on the diseases 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 Western Lancet.

As a 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 subject from the British press.-The Dublin Quarterly 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, of about 450 pages, extra cloth, $2 50.

MEIGS ON PUERPERAL FEVER-(Lately Published.)

ON THE NATURE, SIGNS, AND TREATMENT

OF CHILDBED FEVERS:

IN A SERIES OF LETTERS ADDRESSED TO THE STUDENTS OF HIS CLASS. BY CHARLES D. MEIGS, M. D.,

Professor of Midwifery and Diseases of Women and Children in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. In one very handsome octavo volume of 362 pages; extra cloth, $2 50.

The author, a practitioner of more than forty years, has collected the best and most reliable opinions of many writers on this disease, and applying to them the test of clinical experience, has produced a volume superior in many respects to any which has heretofore come from his pen. As the results of a critical inquiry into the literature of the disease and a large and long experience in practice, this volume will be received by the profession with distinguished favor, and we feel warranted in commending it to the favorable attention of our readers.-N. Y. Journal of Medicine.

The present is upon one of the most difficult subjects in obstetrics, and we feel bound to say that as a whole it is superior to any other work upon the same subject. -Edinburgh Med. Journal.

We cordially recommend it to our readers as a work abounding in practical good sense, and sound pathological and therapeutical views.-St. Louis Med. and Surg. Journal.

The 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 obligations, again challenges their admiration in the fresh and vigorous, attractive and racy pages before us. It is a delectable book. * * * This treatise upon childbed fevers will have an extensive sale, being destined, as it deserves, to find a place in the library of every practi. tioner who scorns to lag in the rear of his brethren. -Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery.

ON SOME DISEASES OF WOMEN ADMITTING OF SURGICAL TREATMENT.

BY ISAAC BAKER BROWN,

Surgeon Accoucheur to St. Mary's Hospital, &c.

WITH HANDSOME ILLUSTRATIONS.

In one neat octavo volume, extra cloth, of two hundred and seventy-six pages, $1 60.

During the appearance of this work in the "MEDICAL NEWS AND LIBRARY" for 1855 and 1856, it commanded the warmest approbation of the profession. To the practitioner the work possesses peculiar importance as treating fully and completely of a class of accidents and diseases of frequent occurrence, which have hitherto received but little attention from writers of systematic works. Occupying a middle ground between surgery and obstetrics, the authorities on each subject have wellnigh abandoned them to the consideration of the other, and thus they are nowhere to be found treated with the attention to which their importance is entitled. The subjects considered in extenso are Ruptured Perineum-Prolapse of the Vagina-Prolapse of the Uterus-Vesico-Vaginal Fistula-Recto-Vaginal Fistula-Lacerated Vagina-Polypus of the Uterus-Stone in the Female Bladder-Vascular Tumor of the Meatus Urinarius-Imperforate Hymen-Encysted Tumor of the Labia-Diseases of the Rectum arising from the Uterus-Ovarian Dropsy.

Needle for Ruptured
Perineum.

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE DISEASES PECULIAR TO WOMEN. Illustrated by Cases derived from Hospital and Private Practice. By SAMUEL ASHWELL, M D., Obstetric Physician and Lecturer to Guy's Hospital, London. Third American, from the Third and Revised London edition. In one octavo volume of 528 pages; extra cloth, $3

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.

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 Foreign Med. Re

view.

We commend it to our readers as the best practical treatise on the subject which has yet appeared.-London Lancet.

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON INFLAMMATION OF THE UTERUS, ITS CERVIX AND APPENDAGES;

AND ON ITS CONNECTION WITH UTERINE DISEASE.

In one octavo volume, of about 500 pages, extra cloth, $2.

The best treatise of the kind in the English language, and we know of none in the French or German that are equally valuable. It certainly is no small compliment to Dr. Bennet, that his treatise is published in the latter countries, and that a fourth edition has been called for and issued in this country. It must be admitted that Dr. Bennet's writings have

served to mark a new era in the literature, if not in the pathological doctrines of this department of Medicine. In point of general accuracy and practical value, there certainly is no other treatise that equals this. No physician's library can be complete without the incomparably excellent work of Dr. Bennet.N. Y. Journal of Medicine.

A New Work on Leucorrhoea-(Lately Published.)

THE PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT OF LEUCORRHEA.

Now Complete-(October, 1858.)

LECTURES ON THE DISEASES OF WOMEN.

BY CHARLES WEST, M. D.,

Author of "Lectures on the Diseases of Children;" Accoucheur to and Lecturer on Midwifery at St. Bartholomew's Hospital; Physician to the Hospital for Sick Children, &c.

Now complete in one handsome octavo volume, extra cloth, of about 500 pages; $2 50.

Also, for sale separate, Part II., being pp. 309 to end, with Index, Title matter, &c. 8vo., cloth, $1.

Part I. will no longer be sold separate.

The enviable reputation acquired for Dr. West by his former writings will be more than sustained by the present volume. His large experience both in hospital and private practice, his just and reasonable views on vexed questions, and his happy faculty of conveying information in a clear and precise manner, give him great advantages as a teacher, and the unanimous verdict of the profession has pronounced that he has made the best use of these advantages. The first portion of these Lectures, as published in the "MEDICAL NEWS AND LIBRARY" for 1856 and 1857, at once attracted the most favorable attention, and was regarded as one of the best works for both student and practitioner that had appeared on this interesting department of medicine. That portion constituted a complete treatise on the Diseases of the UTERUS. The concluding part, now ready, treats in an equally thorough and satisfactory manner of the UTERINE APPENDAGES, the OVARIES, VAGINA, BLADDER, and EXTERNAL ORGANS; and, taken together, they form, in one neat volume, a clear and compendious text-book on the special diseases to which the female is liable.

Copies of Part II., done up in paper covers, for mailing, will be sent, free of postage, to any address within the United States on receipt of One Dollar in current funds or postage stamps. Subscribers to the " MEDICAL NEWS AND LIBRARY" who received the first portion of this work as published in 1856 and 1857, should lose no time in securing the completion.

A few notices of Part I. are added.

As a writer, Dr. West stands, in our opinion, second only to Watson, the "Macaulay of Medicine;" 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, painstaking, practical physician is apparent on every page.-New York Journal of Medicine, March, 1858. 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.-Edinburgh Medical Journal.

We gladly recommend his Lectures as in the highest degree instructive to all who are interested in obstetric practice.-London Lancet.

We know of no treatise of the kind so complete and yet so compact.-Chicago Medical Journal, Jan. 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 country.-Southern Medical and Surgical Journal, January, 1858.

Happy in his simplicity of manner and moderate in his expression of opinion, the author is a sound reasoner and a good practitioner, and his book is worthy of the handsome garb in which it has appeared from the press of the Philadelphia publishers.-Virginia Med. Journal.

We must take leave of Dr. West's very useful work, with our commendation of the clearness of its style, and the industry and sobriety of judgment of which it gives evidence.-London Med. Times and Gazette.

Sound judgment and good sense pervade every chapter of the book. From its perusal we have derived unmixed satisfaction.-Dublin Quarterly Journ.

Recently Issued.

AN ENQUIRY INTO THE PATHOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF ULCERATION OF THE OS UTERI. By CHARLES WEST, M. D., Author of "Lectures on the Diseases of Women," &c. In one neat volume, small 8vo., extra cloth, $1.

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. By JAMES WHITEHEAD, F. R. C. S., &c. Second American Edition. In one octavo volume, extra cloth, of 368 pages, $1 75.