MEDICINE. THE PRACTICE OF PHYSIC. By W. P. THE ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND DIS DEWEES, M. D. Adjunct Professor of Midwifery, in the University of Pennsylvania, 2 Vols. 8vo. "We have no hesitation in recommending it as deci-work of reference for the practitioner, and a text-boek dedly one of the best systems of medicine extant. The tenor of the work in general reflects the highest honor on Dr. Dewees's talents, industry, and capacity for the execution of the arduous task which he had undertaken. It is one of the most able and satisfactory works which mod ern times have produced, and will be a standard authori ty."-London Med. and Surg. Journal, Aug. 1830. DEWEES ON THE DISEASES OF CHILDREN. 3d ed. In 8vo. EASES OF THE TEETH. BY THOMAS BELL F.R.S., F.LS. &c. In 1 vol. 8vo. With Flates "Mr. Bell has evidently endeavored to constract for the student, containing a 'plain and practical dire of the information at present possessed on the subject and results of the author's own investigations and expe ence.'"***"We must now take leave of Mr. Bell whose work we have no doubt will become a class book on the important subject of dental surgery."-Medico Ch rurgical Review. "We have no hesitation in pronouncing it to be the best treatise in the English language."-North Americas Medical and Surgical Journal, No. 19. AMERICAN DISPENSATORY. Eighth Edition, improved and greatly enlarged. By JOHN REDMAN COXE, M. D. Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy in the Univer sity of Pennsylvania. In 1 vol. 8vo. cial This new edition has been arranged with spe The objects of this work are, 1st, to teach those who have the charge of children, either as parent or guardian, the most approved methods of securing and improving their physical powers. This is attempted by pointing out the duties which the parent or the guardian owes for this purpose, to this interesting, but helpless class of beings, and the manner by which their duties shall be fulfilled. And 2d, to render reference to the recent Pharmacopoeias, published available a long experience to these objects of our in Philadelphia and New-York. affection when they become diseased. In attempting this, the author has avoided as much as possible, "technicality;" and has given, if he does not flatter himself too much, to each disease of which he treats, its appropriate and designating characters, with a fidelity that will prevent any two being confounded together, with the best mode of treating them, that either his own experience or that of others has suggested. DEWEES ON THE DISEASES OF FEMALES. A COMPENDIOUS SYSTEM OF MID- THE ELEMENTS OF THERAPEUTICS MANUAL OF PATHOLOGY: containing 12mo. "We strongly recommend M. Martinet's Manual to the profession, and especially to students; if the latter wish to study diseases to advantage, they should always have it at hand, both when at the bedside of the patient, and when making post mortem examinations."-American Journal of the Medical Sciences, No. I. CLINICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF FEVER, comprising a Report of the Cases treated at the London Fever Hospital in 1828-29, by Alexander Tweedie, M. D., Member of the Royal College of Physicians of London, &c. 1 vol. 8vo. "In short, the present work, concise, unostentatious as it is, would have led us to think that Dr. Tweedie was a man of clear judgment, unfettered by attachment to any fashionable hypothesis, that he was an energetic but judicious practitioner, and that, if he did not dazzle his readers with the brilliancy of theoretical speculations, he would command their assent to the solidity of his didac tic precepts."-Med. Chir. Journal. ELLIS' MEDICAL FORMULARY. The Medical Formulary, being a collection of prescriptions derived from the writings and practice of many of the most eminent Physicians in America and Europe. By BENJAMIN ELLIS, M. D. 3d. edition. With Additions. "We would especially recommend it to our brethren in distant parts of the country, whose insulated situations may prevent them from having access to the many authe rities which have been consulted in arranging the mate rials for this work."-Phil. Med, and Phys. Journal. MANUAL OF MATERIA MEDICA AND PHARMACY. By H. M. EDWARDS, M. D. and P. VAVASSEUR, M. D. comprising a concise Description of the Articles used in Medicine; their Physical and Chemical Properties; the Botanical Characters of the Medicinal Plants; the Formula for the Prin cipal Officinal Preparations of the American, Parisian, Dublin, &c. Pharmacopeias; with Observations on the proper Mode of combin ing and administering Remedies. Translated from the French, with numerous Additions and Corrections, and adapted to the Practice of Medicine and to the Art of Pharmacy in the United States. By JOSEPH TOG NO, M. D. Member of the Philadelphia Medical Society, and E. DURAND, Member of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. "It contains all the pharmaceutical information that the physician can desire, and in addition, a larger mass of information, in relation to the properties, &c. of the dif ferent articles and preparations employed in medicine. supersede all these publications in the library of the phythan any of the dispensatories, and we think will entirely sician."-Am. Journ. of the Medical Sciences. MEMOIR ON THE TREATMENT OF VENEREAL DISEASES WITHOUT MERCURY, employed at the Military Hospital of the Val-de-Grace. Translated from the French of H. M. J. Desruelles, M. D. &c. To which are added, Observations by G. J. Guthrie, Esq. and various documents, showing the results of this Mode of Treatment, in Great Britain, France, Germany, and America. 1 vol. 8vo. PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION, CYCLOPÆDIA OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE; COMPRISING TREATISES ON THE NATURE AND TREATMENT OF DISEASES, Chichester Infirmary, &c. London Fever Hospital, &c. London University,&c. WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE FOLLOWING PHYSICIANS: JAMES APJOHN, M. D. M. R. I. A. Professor of JAMES L. BARDSLEY, M. D. Physician to the R. H. BRABANT, M. D. Devizes. JOHN BURNE, M. D. Physician to the Carey-street H. W. CARTER, M.D. F. R. S. E. Fellow of the JOHN CHEYNE, M. D. F. R. S. E. M. R. I. A. JOHN CLENDINNING, M. D. Fellow of the Royal JOHN CRAMPTON, M. D. M. R. I. A. King's Pro- ANDREW CRAWFORD, M. D. Physician to the D. D. DAVIS, M. D. M. R. S. L. Professor of Mid- JOHN ELLIOTSON, M. D. F. R. S. Physician to | THOMAS HANCOCK, M. D Liverpool, Member BISSET HAWKINS, M. D. Fellow of the Royal J. HOPE, M. D. Member of the Royal College of ARTHUR JACOB, M. D. M. R. I. A. Professor of CHARLES LOCOCK, M. D. Physician to the West- H. MARSH, M. D. M. R. I. A. Professor of the Prin- JONES QUAIN, M. B. Lecturer on Anatomy and P. M. ROGET, M. D. Sec. R. S. Consulting Physi- Hospital. WILLIAM STROUD, M. D. Physician to the Northern Dispensary. A. T. THOMSON, M. D. F. L. S. Professor of Materia Medica in the London University. THOMAS THOMSON, M. D. F. R. S. L. & E. Regius Professor of Chemistry in the University of Glasgow, &c. &c. R. J. GRAVES, M. D. M. R. I. A. King's Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, Honorary Fellow of the King's and Queen's College of Physicians, Phy-T. J. TODD, M. D. Physician to the Dispensary, sician to the Meath Hospital and County of Dublin Infirmary. GEORGE GREGORY, M. D. Physician to the Small- MARSHALL HALL, M. D. F. R. S. E. Member of Brighton. RICHARD TOWNSEND, A. B. M. D. M. R. I. A. Dublin. CHARLES J. B. WILLIAMS, M. D. London. &c. &c. &c. To be completed in five volumes 8vo. of about 600 pages each.-The first vol ume will be published early in 1832. CYCLOPÆDIA OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE. THE want of a comprehensive work on subjects connected with PRACTICAL MEDICINE including PATHOLOGY and PATHOLOGICAL ANAT OMY, is one which has long existed in this country. The Medical Dictionaries heretofore published, and the Systems of Medicine in the hands of the student, may be said, without invidiousness, to fall very far short of presenting the English reader with such a compendious survey of the actual state of BRITISH and FOREIGN MEDICINE as is absolutely required by him. Some of them are too limited and too superficial in their character; others are too voluminous, too intricate in their arrangement, and too indiscriminate in their contents; and all are open to the serious objection of failing to represent the improvements and discoveries by which the scientific labors of the members of the medical profession, in various parts of the world, have been rewarded since the commencement of the present century. It is the object of the CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE to supply these deficiencies, and to meet the acknowledged wants of the medical reader. Such ample arrangements have been made for effecting these important objects, as enable the Editors to lay before the public the nature and plan of a publication in which they have endeavored, by dividing the labor of a work including subjects of great diversity, and all of practical importance; by combining the valuable exertions of several contributors already known to the medical public; by excluding mere technical and verbal explanations, and all superfluous matter; and by avoiding multiplied and injudicious divisions; to furnish a book which will be comprehensive without diffuseness, and contain an account of whatever appertains to practical medicine, unembarrassed by disquisitions and subjects extraneous to it. In pursuance of this design, every thing connected with what is commonly called the PRACTICE OF PHYSIC will be fully and clearly explained. The subject of PATHOLOGY will occupy particular attention, and ample information will be given with relation to PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY. Although the excellent works already published on the subjects of MATERIA MEDICA and MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE can be so readily and advantageously consulted, as to make the details of those branches of science uncalled for in the Cyclopædia, it belongs to the proposed plan to comprise such general notices of the application and use of medicinal substances as may be conveyed in a CYCLOPÆDIA OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE. general account of each class into which they have been divided, as of TONICS, NARCOTICS, &c.; and to impart, under a few heads, as TOXICOLOGY, SUSPENDED ANIMATION, &c. such information connected with Medical Jurisprudence as is more strictly practical in its character. It is almost unnecessary to say that a work of this description will form a LIBRARY of PRACTICAL MEDICINE, and constitute a most desirable book of reference for the GENERAL PRACTITIONER, whose numerous avocations, and whose want of access to books, afford him little time and opportunity for the perusal of many original works, and who is often unable to obtain the precise information which he requires at the exact time when he is in greatest need of it. The STUDENT OF MEDICINE, who is attending lectures, will, also, by means of this work, be enabled, whatever order the lecturer may follow, to refer, without difficulty, to each subject treated of in the lectures of his teacher; and it is presumed that Lecturers on Medicine will see the advantage of recommending to their pupils a work of highly respectable character, the composition of original writers, and which, it is hoped, will neither disappoint the advanced student by its brevity and incompleteness, nor perplex those commencing their studies by an artificial arrangement. But, whilst the Editors have felt it to be their duty to prepare a safe and useful book of reference and text-book, it would be doing injustice to those by whose co-operation they have been honored, not to avow that they have also been ambitious to render the work acceptable and interesting to readers who have leisure and inclination to study what may be termed the PHILOSOPHY Of MediCINE: whatever is truly philosophical in medicine being also useful, although the application of the science to the art requires much reflection and sound judgment.-For the assistance of those who desire to pursue a regular course of medical reading, ample directions will be given when the work is completed; and for those who may be anxious to prosecute any particular subject to a greater extent than the limits of the Cyclopædia permit, a list will be given, in an Appendix, of the best works relating to each. The means of accomplishing an undertaking of the importance of which the Editors are fully sensible, will, doubtless, be appreciated after an inspection of the list of contributors who have already promised their co-operation. It is, of course, desirable that a work of this kind should be characterized by unity of de CYCLOPÆDIA OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE. sign, but, at the same time, as each author will, generally speaking, contribute his knowledge and his opinions on the subjects which have occupied his chief attention, the superiority of the whole performance to any thing which the mere labor of compila tion could accomplish will be unquestionable. To each important article the name of the author will be appended. The acknowledged want of such a publication, already alluded to, and the extensive encouragement which Dictionaries of a much greater extent have met with in FRANCE and GERMANY, although some of them are very unequal as regards the value of different parts, and encumbered with much that is absolutely useless, afford sufficient reason to hope for the success of a work in which what is valuable will, as much as possible, be separated from what is merely calculated to distract the attention, and to frustrate the inquiry, of those who study the science of medicine with a view of regulating and improving its practice. In order to insure this success, it is the desire, and will be the endeavor, of the Editors to make the CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE not only obviously useful to those for whom it is more immediately intended, but so creditable to BRITISH MEDICAL SCIENCE as to deserve and to obtain the patronage of all classes of the Medical Profession. In the American edition, all interesting details on the subjects of MATERIA MEDICA and MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE, omitted in the original, will be supplied.-Much new matter in relation to AMERICAN SURGERY and MEDICAL PRACTICE will be introduced; and for this ample materials have been promised.-Full explanations will be given of all medical terms, especially those which modern discoveries have introduced into the nomenclature of the science, and without a knowledge of which, many of the works of the present day are almost unintelligible.-At the termination of each article. the most copious references will be given to the best writers on the subject, so as to enable the student who desires it, to pursue his investigations with the least trouble and the greatest advantage. Finally, the whole work will be carefully revised, and such additions made as may tend to increase its value, and to render it. what it is desired it should be-A COMPLETE LIBRARY OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. |