New and Enlarged Edition-Recently Published. A DICTIONARY OF TERMS USED IN MEDICINE, AND THE COLLATERAL SCIENCES. BY RICHARD D. HOBLYN. A NEW AMERICAN FROM THE LAST LONDON EDITION. BY ISAAC HAYS, M. D., Editor of the American Journal of the Medical Sciences. In one large royal 12mo. volume of 522 closely printed double-column pages, leather, $1 50. In this volume the object of the author and editor has been to produce a work which, at an exceedingly moderate price, and in a portable and convenient form, should present all the assistance requisite to the medical student and ordinary scientific reader. All obsolete terms have been carefully excluded, and it will be found a complete and concise manual of definitions, embodying the terms employed in medicine and its allied sciences in their present advanced condition. By the employment of a small but clear type, the amount of an ordinary octavo volume has been condensed into its pages. WILLIAM HUNT. M. D., Demonstrator of Anatomy in the University of Penn'a. In one large and handsome royal 12mo. volume of 584 pages. Bound in leather, $2. The modifications and additions which this work has received in again passing through the hands of the author are sufficiently indicated by the fact that the present edition contains nearly onehalf more matter than the preceding, while the series of illustrations has been increased in extent and greatly improved in character. By the employment of a smaller type, these additions have been accommodated without a corresponding enlargement in the size and price of the volume, and it is again presented as fully worthy a continuance of the favor which it has heretofore enjoyed as a sound practical guide to the study of anatomy. A NEW AMERICAN DISSECTOR. THE PRACTICAL ANATOMIST; OR, THE STUDENT'S GUIDE IN THE DISSECTING-ROOM. BY J. M. ALLEN, M. D., 16 7 Late Professor of Anatomy in the Pennsylvania Medical College. With 266 Illustrations. In one large and very handsome royal 12mo. volume of 632 pages, leather, $2 25. We are greatly pleased with Prof. Allen's little work. We handed our copy to a friend, who is more particularly engaged in Practical Anatomy, for his careful examination and opinion; he reports it "the very best dissector yet produced." The arrangement is clear, concise, and convenient; its size is satisfactory-full enough for all the purposes of the dissecting-room, and yet, not prolix or bulky. It is beautifully illustrated-perhaps much the most so of any dissector yet published.-Cincinnati Med. Observer. SPECIAL ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY. THE STUDENT'S TEXT-BOOK OF ANATOMY. A SYSTEM OF HUMAN GENERAL AND SPECIAL. BY ERASMUS WILSON, F. R. S. Author of "The Dissector's Manual," "A Treatise on Diseases of the Skin," &c. A NEW AND REVISED AMERICAN, FROM THE LAST AND ENLARGED ENGLISH EDITION. EDITED BY W. H. GOBRECHT, M. D., Professor of Anatomy in the Pennsylvania Medical College, &c. 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 onefourth 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 appropri ate 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. Portion of one of Peyer's Glands. 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 is therefore at the expense of some struggle with our predilections that we find ourselves called upon to recognize the merits of a successor to our earlier companion and guide. The struggle over, we are constrained to declare that the edition of 1858 is a vast improvement upon all others. This is, in one sentence, the best edition of the best teaching anatomy now extant.-Nashville Monthly Record, Nov. '58. The great practical value of Wilson's Anatomy, as a manual for the student, the practitioner, and for all who desire to become acquainted with the subject, is too well attested by the unprecedented success of the work, and the universal verdict in its favor, to render recommendation necessary. We have ever commended Wilson's Anatomy, without hesitation or reserve, to students of medicine, and the present edition only increases our approbation.-Southern Med. and Surg. Journal, Nov. 1858. NEW AND MAGNIFICENT ANATOMICAL TEXT-BOOK-(Just Issued.) ANATOMY, DESCRIPTIVE AND SURGICAL. BY HENRY GRAY, F. R. S., Lecturer on Anatomy at St. George's Hospital, London, &c. THE DISSECTIONS JOINTLY BY THE AUTHOR AND DR. CARTER. In one splendid imperial octavo volume of about 800 very large pages, with 363 large and elaborate engravings on wood. Price in extra cloth, $6 25; in leather, raised bands, $7. The author has endeavored in this work to cover a more extended range of subjects than is customary in the ordinary text-books, by giving not only the details necessary for the student, but also the application of those details in the practice of medicine and surgery, thus rendering it not only a guide for the learner, but an admirable work of reference for the active practitioner. The engravings form a special feature in the work, many of them being the size of nature, nearly all original, and having the names of the various parts printed on the body of the cut, in place of figures of reference with descriptions at the foot. They thus form a complete and splendid series, which will greatly assist the student in obtaining a clear ide a of Anatomy, and will also serve to refresh the memory of those who may find in the exigencies of practice the necessity of recalling the details of the dissecting-room; while, combining as it does a complete Anatomical Atlas with a thorough treatise on descriptive, practical, and applied anatomy, the work will be found of essential service to physicians who receive students in their offices, assisting both teacher and pupil in laying the ground work of a thorough medical education. *The large size of many of the illustrations prevents the selection of a favorable average specimen. A small one, however, is inserted to show the manner in which the lettering accompanies the cuts. It will be observed that the attachments of the muscles are indicated by dotted lines. As a full, systematic, and advanced treatise on on anatomy hitherto published in the English lananatomy, combining the various merits of the vol-guage, affording a complete view of the structure of and adapted to all the wants of the student, we are umes of many countries, scientifically excellent, not acquainted with any work in any language which can take equal rank with the one before us. London Lancet, Sept. 11, 1858. Mr. Gray's book, in excellency of arrangement and completeness of execution, exceeds any work the human body, with especial reference to practical surgery. Thus the volume constitutes a perfect book of reference for the practitioner, demanding a place in even the most limited library of the physician or surgeon, and a work of necessity for the student to fix in his mind what he has learned by the dissecting knife from the book of nature.-The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Med. Sci., Nov. 1858. First American, from the Fifth London Edition. EDITED BY JOSEPH LEIDY, M. D., In two large and handsome octavo volumes, containing thirteen hundred pages, and five hun dred and eleven beautiful engravings on wood, bound in leather. Price $6. It is indeed a work calculated to make an era in anatomical study, by placing before the student every department of his science, with a view to the relative importance of each; and so skilfully have the different parts been interwoven, that no one who makes this work the basis of his studies, will hereafter have any excuse for neglecting or undervaluing any important particulars connected with the structure of the human frame; and whether the bias of his mind lead him in a more especial manner to surgery, physic, or physiology, he will find here a work at once so comprehensive and practical as to defend him from exclusiveness on the one hand, and pedantry on the other.-Monthly Journal and Retrospect of the Med. Sciences. We have no hesitation in recommending this treatise on anatomy as the most complete on that subject in the English language; and the only one, perhaps, in any language, which brings the state of knowledge forward to the most recent discoveries.-The Edinburgh Med. and Surg. Journal. it is intended.-Provincial Medical Journal. The most complete Treatise on Anatomy in the There is no work in the English language to be preferred to Dr. Quain's Elements of Anatomy.-London Journal of Medicine. |