Principles and Practice of Surgery.
By Henry H. Smith, M.D., Surgeon-General of the State of Pennsylvania.
Kolliker’s Anatomy.
[Illustration: Cartilage cells from a fibrous, velvety, articular
cartilage of the condyle of the femur of man, magnified 350 diameters.]
Manual of Human Microscopical Anatomy. By A. Kolliker, Professor of
Anatomy and Physiology in Wurzburg. Translated by Geo. Bush, F.R.S.,
and Thomas Huxley, F.R.S. Edited, with notes and additions, by J. Da
Costa, M.D. Illustrated by 313 engravings on wood. One vol. 8vo. $3.75.
It would be useless for us to attempt a review of this work, for the
text is so fully illustrated by engravings, and is so intimately
associated with them, that we cannot extract any part as a sample
of the style, without weakening its force, for the want of its
accompanying illustration. The book must be read and studied
before an adequate idea can be formed of its value and excellence.
The book comes from such high authority, and is indorsed by such
competent judges, as to make it at once indispensable to the
student of microscopic anatomy. We hope it will have an extensive
circulation.--_Western Lancet._
The reputation of Professor Kolliker, acquired by his former and
larger work on microscopical anatomy, will be enhanced by this text
book on Histology, for such it is destined to be pre eminently. The
text is fully illustrated by engravings, greatly adding to the value
of the work, and accompanied by explicit explanations of the figures.
We commend it to the profession, and to students especially, as worthy
of their patronage.--_N. Y. Medical Gazette._
Drake’s Diseases of the North American Valley.
A Systematic Treatise, Historical, Etiological, and Practical, on the
principal diseases of the interior valley of North America, as they
appear in the Caucasian, African, Indian, and Esquimaux varieties of
its population. By Daniel Drake, M.D. Edited by S. Hanbury Smith,
M.D., formerly Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in
Starling Medical College, Ohio; and Francis G. Smith, M.D., Professor
of the Institute of Medicine in the medical department of Pennsylvania
College, Philadelphia. One vol. 8vo. Sheep, $5.00.
Dr. Drake’s great reputation, and his extensive practice in the
western country, gives great value and decisive authority to this
treatise on the diseases prevalent in the valley of the Mississippi.
While the work is of great interest to the general practitioner
in other parts of the country, to the Western and Southwestern
members of the medical profession it will hereafter be considered an
indispensable book of reference and instruction.
Horner’s United States Dissector.
[Illustration: Nerves of the neck and tongue.]
The United States Dissector; or, Lessons in Practical Anatomy. By
William E. Horner, M.D., late Professor of Anatomy in the University
of Pennsylvania. Fifth edition, carefully revised, and entirely
remodeled. By Henry H. Smith, M.D., fellow of the College of
Physicians of Philadelphia, etc. With one hundred and seventy-seven
new illustrations. One vol. demi 8vo. $2.00.
This is a new and revised edition of one of the most popular works on
dissection which has ever been published in this country. The editor
has carefully revised the text, modified its order, added an entire
set of new illustrations, and introduced such recent subjects as the
progress of science rendered necessary.
Malgaigne’s Treatise on Fractures.
[Illustration: Old Inter-Capsular Fracture, with considerable
shortening.]
A Treatise on Fractures. By Professor J. F. Malgaigne, of Paris. With
over one hundred Illustrations. Translated from the French, with notes
and additions, by John H. Packard, M.D. One vol. 8vo. $4.00.
Malgaigne’s Treatise has enjoyed so wide a circulation and such
well-deserved renown, that we must own to a feeling of surprise at
learning that before the appearance of the present work no attempt
has been made to present so popular an author in an English dress.
The present book, a contribution to our literature from America, is
the work of a gentleman whose name is not otherwise known to us, and
is one which we can conscientiously pronounce very valuable.... A
very useful book indeed, and one which we hope will have an extensive
circulation.--_British and Foreign Med. Chir. Review._
Must be regarded as a monument, conspicuous and to be admired, even
among the noble monuments of the medical literature of his [the
author’s] country. As a solid, complete, substantial, highly-finished
work, we know of none that is its superior; it can, with justice, be
regarded as a model in scientific literature.--_North American Med.
Chir. Rev._
It affords us sincere pleasure to be able to welcome the appearance,
in an English dress, of this valuable treatise. The annotations
which Dr. Packard has appended to it are numerous, and appear to us
to be of much practical value, adapting, as they do, the treatment
of fractures to the generally received and most approved American
methods.--_Journal of the Medical Sciences._
Bernard and Robin on the Blood.
Notes of M. Bernard’s Lectures on the Blood, with an Appendix,
giving an account of the latest studies of M. Robin, the celebrated
microscopist. By Walter Franklin Atlee M.D. One vol. 12mo. Cloth, 75
cents.
Wood’s Practice of Medicine.
A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine. By Geo. B. Wood, M.D.,
Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the University of
Pennsylvania. Fourth edition, improved. Two vols. 8vo. $7.00.
This is far the best work on the practice of medicine in the English
language, and we recommend it strongly to the attention of our
readers. It is much fuller than Dr. Watson’s admirable lectures, while
it is less lengthy than the Library or Cyclopædia of Medicine; and
it has this further advantage over the two last-named works--that
while they are far behind, it is a fair reflex of the actual state of
knowledge.--_London Medical Times and Gazette._
Wood and Bache’s Dispensatory.