30 HENRY C. LEA'S PUBLICATIONS-(Surgery). WALES (PHILIP S.), M. D., Surgeon U. S. N. MECHANICAL THERAPEUTICS: a Practical Treatise on Surgical Apparatus, Appliances, and Elementary Operations: embracing Minor Surgery, Band. With six hundred aging, Orthopraxy, and the Treatment of Fractures and Dislocations. and forty-two illustrations on wood. In one large and handsome octavo volume of about 700 pages: extra cloth, $5 75; leather, $6 75. (Just Issued.) A Naval Medical Board directed to examine and report upon the merits of this volume, officially states that "it should in our opinion become a standard work in the hands of every naval sur geon;" and its adoption for use in both the Army and Navy of the United States is sufficient guarantee of its adaptation to the needs of every-day practice. The title of this book will give a reasonably good idea of its scope, but its merits can only be appreciated by a careful perusal of its text. No one who undertakes such a task will have any reason to complain that the author has not performed his duty, and has not taken every pains to present every subject in a clear, common-sense, and practical light. It is a unique specimen of literature in its way, in that, treating upon such a variety of subjects, it is as a whole so completely up to the wants of the student and the general practitioner. We have never seen any work of its kind that can compete with it in real utility and extensive adaptability. Dr. Wales perfectly understands what may naturally be required of him in the premises, and in the work before us has bridged over a very wide gap which has always heretofore existed between the first rudiments of surgery and practical surgery proper. He has emphatically given us a comprehensive work for the beginner; and when we say of his labors, that in their particular sphere they leave nothing to be desired, we assert a great deal to recommend the book to the attention of those specially concerned. In conclusion, we would state, at the risk of reiteration, that this is the most comprehensive book on the subject that we have seen; is the best that can be placed in the hands of the stu BIGELOW (HENRY J.), M. D., dent in need of a first book on surgery, and the most useful that can be named for such general practition ers who, without any special pretensions to surgery, are occasionally liable to treat surgical cases.-N. Y. Med. Record, March 2, 1868. It is certainly the most complete and thorongh work Students and of its kind in the English language. young practitioners of surgery will find it invaluable. It will prove especially useful to inexperienced country practitioners, who are continually required to take charge of surgical cases, under circumstances precluding them from the aid of experienced surgeons. -Pacific Med. and Surg. Journal, Feb. 1868. The title of the above work is sufficiently indica tive of its contents. We have not seen for a long time (in the English language) a treatise equal to this in extent, nor one which is better adapted to the wants of the general student and practitioner. It is not to the surgeon alone that this book belongs; the physician has frequent opportunities to fill an emer gency by such knowledge as is here given. Every practitioner should make purchase of such a bookit will last him his lifetime.-St. Louis Med. Reporter, Feb. 1868. Professor of Surgery in the Massachusetts Med. College. ON THE MECHANISM OF DISLOCATION AND FRACTURE OF THE HIP. With the Reduction of the Dislocation by the Flexion Method. With numerous original illustrations. (Now Ready.) In one very handsome octavo volume. Cloth. $2.50. graph is largely illustrated with exquisitely executed woodcuts, after photographs, which help to elucidate the admirable subject-matter of the text. We cor We cannot too highly praise this book as the work of an accomplished and scientific surgeon. We do not hesitate to say that he has done much to clear up the obscurities connected with the mechanism of dis-dially commend the "Hip," by Dr. Bigelow, to the location of the hip-joint, and he has laid down most attention of surgeons.-Dublin Quarterly Journal of valuable practical rules for the easy and most suc- Medical Science, Feb. 1870. cessful management of these injuries. The mono THOMPSON (SIR HENRY), Surgeon and Professor of Clinical Surgery to University College Hospital. LECTURES ON DISEASES OF THE URINARY ORGANS. With illustrations on wood. In one neat octavo volume, extra cloth. $2 25. (Now Ready.) These lectures stand the severe test. They are instructive without being tedious, and simple without being diffuse; and they include many of those practical hints so useful for the student, and even more valuable to the young practitioner.-Edinburgh Med. Journal, April, 1869. Very few words of ours are necessary to recommend these lectures to the profession. There is no subject BY THE SAME AUTHOR. (Nearly Ready.) on which Sir Henry Thompson speaks with more anthority than that in which he has specially gathered his laurels; in addition to this, the conversational style of instruction, which is retained in these printed lectures, gives them an attractiveness which a systematic treatise can never possess.-London Medical Times and Gazette, April 24, 1869. ON THE PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA AND URINARY FISTULA. With plates and wood-cuts. From the third and revised English edition. In one very handsome octavo volume, extra cloth, $3 50. (Now Ready.) This classical work has so long been recognized as a standard authority on its perplexing subjects that it should be rendered accessible to the American profession. Having enjoyed the advantage of a revision at the hands of the author within a few months, it will be found to present his latest views and to be on a level with the most recent advances of surgical science. HENRY C. LEA'S PUBLICATIONS-(Medical Jurisprudence, &c.). 31 TAYLOR (ALFRED S.), M.D., Lecturer on Med. Jurisp, and Chemistry in Guy's Hospital, MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE. Sixth American, from the eighth With Notes and References to American Decisions, by CLE and revised London edition. MENT B. PENROSE, of the Philadelphia Bar. In one large octavo volume of 776 pages, extra cloth, $4 50; leather, $5 50. (Just Issued.) Considerable additions have been made by the editor to this edition, comprising some important sections from the author's larger work, "The Principles and Practice of Medical Jurisprudence," as well as references to American law and practice. The notes of the former editor, Dr. Hartshorne, have likewise been retained, and the whole is presented as fully worthy to maintain the distinguished position which the work has acquired as a leading text-book and authority on the subject. A new edition of a work acknowledged as a standard authority everywhere within the range of the English language. Considering the new matter introduced, on trichiniasis and other subjects, and the plates representing the crystals of poisons, etc., it may fairly be regarded as the most compact, comprehensive, and practical work on medical jurisprudence which has issued from the press, and the one best fitted for students.-Pacific Med. and Surg. Journal, Feb. 1867. The sixth edition of this popular work comes to us in charge of a new editor, Mr. Penrose, of the Philadelphia bar, who has done much to render it useful, not only to the medical practitioners of this country, but to those of his own profession Wisely retaining the references of the former American editor, Dr. Hartshorne, he has added many valuable notes of his own. The reputation of Dr. Taylor's work is so well established, that it needs no recommendation. He is now the highest living authority on all matters con nected with forensic medicine, and every successive. edition of his valuable work gives fresh assurance to his many admirers that he will continue to maintain his well-earned position. No one should, in fact, be without a text-book on the subject, as he does not know but that his next case may create for him an emergency for its use. To those who are not the fortunate possessors of a reliable, readable, interesting, and thoroughly practical work upon the subject, we would earnestly recommend this, as forming the best groundwork for all their future studies of the more elaborate treatises.-New York Medical Record, Feb. 15, 1867. The present edition of this valuable mauual is a great improvement on those which have preceded it. It makes thus by far the best guide-book in this department of medicine for students and the general practitioner in our language.-Boston Med, and Surg. Journal, Dec. 27, 1866. WINSLOW (FORBES), M.D., D. C. L., &c. ON OBSCURE DISEASES OF THE BRAIN AND DISORDERS OF THE MIND; their incipient Symptoms, Pathology, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prophylaxis. Second American, from the third and revised English edition. In one handsome octavo volume of nearly 600 pages, extra cloth. $4 25. (Just Issued.) Of the merits of Dr. Winslow's treatise the profession has sufficiently judged. It has taken its place in the front rank of the works upon the special department of practical medicine to which it pertains.Cincinnati Journal of Medicine, March, 1866. It is an interesting volume that will amply repay for a careful perusal by all intelligent readers. Chicago Med. Examiner, Feb. 1866. A work which, like the present, will largely aid the practitioner in recognizing and arresting the first insidious advances of cerebral and mental disease, is one of immense practical value, and demands earnest attention and diligent study on the part of all who have embraced the medical profession, and have LEA (HENRY C.). thereby undertaken responsibilities in which the welfare and happiness of individuals and families are largely involved. We shall therefore close this brief and necessarily very imperfect notice of Dr. Winslow's great and classical work by expressing our conviction that it is long since so important and beautifully written a volume has issued from the British medical press.-Dublin Medical Press. It is the most interesting as well as valuable book that we have seen for a long time. It is truly fascinating.-Am. Jour. Med. Sciences. Dr. Winslow's work will undoubtedly occupy an unique position in the medico-psychological literature of this country.-London Med. Review. SUPERSTITION AND FORCE: ESSAYS ON THE WAGER OF LAW, THE WAGER OF BATTLE, THE ORDEAL, AND TORTURE. Second Edition, Enlarged. In one handsome volume royal 12mo. of nearly 500 pages; extra cloth, $2 75. (Just Ready.) The copious collection of facts by which Mr. Lea has illustrated his subject shows in the fullest manner the constant conflict and varying success, the advances and defeats, by which the progress of humane legislation has been and is still marked. This work fills up with the fullest exemplification and detail the wise remarks which we have quoted above. As a book of ready reference on the subject it is of the highest value.- Westminster Review, Oct. 1867. When-half in spite of himself, as it appears-he sketches a scene or character in the history of legalized error and cruelty, he betrays so artistic a feeling, and BY a humor so fine and good, that he makes us regret it was not within his intent, as it was certainly within his power, to render the whole of his thorough work more popular in manner.-Atlantic Monthly, Feb. '67. This is a book of extraordinary research. Mr. Lea has entered into his subject con amore; and a more striking record of the cruel superstitions of our unhappy Middle Ages could not possibly have been compiled. ... As a work of curious inquiry on certain outlying points of obsolete law, "Superstition and Force" is one of the most remarkable books we have met with.-London Athenæum, Nov. 3, 1866. Y THE SAME AUTHOR. (Just Issued.) Altogether, the book is a useful addition to the po- is shown in weaving in anecdote and picturesque pular literature of a most important and too little stories, without impairing the flow of the relation or known department of mediæval history.-London | the proper dignity of the composition.-Hartford Saturday Review, Feb. 26, 1870. Courant, Jan. 22, 1870. They are careful studies by a thorough scholar in the most interesting of all historical fields, made | without passion or prejudice, and recorded with honesty. The whole volume is of the deepest interest; the style is masculine and animated, and great skill We recommend the book as a highly instructive discussion of matters which are always of interest to scholars, and which are just now clothed with a special importance.-N. Y. Nation, Feb. 3, 1870. |