HENRY C. LEA'S PUBLICATIONS-(Midwifery).

MEIGS (CHARLES D.). M.D..

Lately Professor of Obstetrics, &c, in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.

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OBSTETRICS: THE SCIENCE AND THE ART. Fifth edition, revised. With one hundred and thirty illustrations. In one beautifully printed octavo volume of 760 large pages. Extra cloth, $5 50; leather, $6 50. (Just Issued.)

The original edition is already so extensively and favorably known to the profession that no recommendation is necessary; it is sufficient to say, the present edition is very much extended, improved, and perfected. Whilst the great practical talents and unlimited experience of the author render it a most valuable acquisition to the practitioner, it is so condensed as to constitute a most eligible and excellent text-book for the student.-Southern Med. and Surg. Journal, July, 1867.

practitioner. The rapidity with which the very large editions have been exhausted is the best test of its true merit Besides, it is the production of an American who has probably had more experience in this branch than any other living practitioner of the country.-St. Louis Med. and Surg. Journal, Sept. 1867.

He has also carefully endeavored to be minute and clear in his details, with as little reiteration as possible, and beautifully combines the relations of science to art, as far as the different classifications will admit.

It is to the student that our author has more par-Detroit Review of Med and Pharm., Aug. 1867. ticularly addressed himself; but to the practitioner we believe it would be equally serviceable as a book

of reference. No work that we have met with so

thoroughly details everything that falls to the lot of the accoucheur to perform. Every detail, no matter how minute or how trivial, has found a place. Canada Medical Journal, July, 1867.

This very excellent work on the science and art of obstetrics should be in the hands of every student and

We now take leave of Dr. Meigs. There are many other and interesting points in his book on which we would fain dwell, but are constrained to bring our observations to a close. We again heartily express our approbation of the labors of Dr. Meigs, extending over many years, and culminating in the work before us, full of practical hints for the inexperienced, and even for those whose experience has been considerable.Glasgow Medical Journal, Sept. 1867.

RAMSBOTHAM (FRANCIS H.), M. D.

THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF OBSTETRIC MEDICINE AND SURGERY, in reference to the Process of Parturition. A new and enlarged edition, thoroughly revised by the author. With additions by W. V. KEATING, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics, &c., in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. In one large and handsome imperial octavo volume of 650 pages, strongly bound in leather, with raised bands; with sixty-four beautiful plates, and numerous wood-cuts in the text, containing in all nearly 200 large and beautiful figures. $7 00.

We will only add that the student will learn from it all he need to know, and the practitioner will find it, as a book of reference, surpassed by none other. Stethoscope.

The character and merits of Dr. Ramsbotham's work are so well known and thoroughly established, that comment is unnecessary and praise superfluous, The illustrations, which are numerous and accurate, are executed in the highest style of art. We cannot too highly recommend the work to our readers.-St. Louis Med. and Surg. Journal.

To the physician's library it is indispensable, while to the student, as a text-book, from which to extract the material for laying the foundation of an education on obstetrical science, it has no superior.-Ohio Med. and Surg. Journal.

When we all to mind the toil we underwent in acquiring a knowledge of this subject, we cannot but envy the student of the present day the aid which this work will afford him.-Am. Jour, of the Med. Sciences.

CHURCHILL (FLEETWOOD), M.D., M. R. I. A.

ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MIDWIFERY.
American from the fourth revised and enlarged London edition.

A new

With notes and additions

by D. FRANCIS CONDIE, M. D., author of a "Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Chil. dren," &c. With one hundred and ninety-four illustrations. In one very handsome octavo volume of nearly 700 large pages. Extra cloth, $4 00; leather, $5 00.

In adapting this standard favorite to the wants of the profession in the United States, the editor has endeavored to insert everything that his experience has shown him would be desirable for the American student, including a large number of illustrations. With the sanction of the author, he has added, in the form of an appendix, some chapters from a little "Manual for Midwives and Nurses," recently issued by Dr. Churchill, believing that the details there presented can hardly fail to prove of advantage to the junior practitioner. The result of all these additions is that the work now contains fully one-half more matter than the last American edition, with nearly onehalf more illustrations; so that, notwithstanding the use of a smaller type, the volume contains almost two hundred pages more than before.

These additions render the work still more complete and acceptable than ever; and with the excellent style in which the publishers have presented this edition of Churchill, we can commend it to the profession with great cordiality and pleasure.-Cincinnati Lancet.

Few works on this branch of medical science are

equal to it, certainly none excel it, whether in regard to theory or practice, and in one respect it is superior to all others, viz., in its statistical information, and therefore, on these grounds a most valuable work for the physician, student, or lecturer, all of whom will find in it the information which they are seeking.Brit. Am. Journal.

has been added which could be well dispensed with. An examination of the table of contents shows how thoroughly the author has gone over the ground, and the care he has taken in the text to present the subjects in all their bearings, will render this new edition even more necessary to the obstetric student than were either of the former editions at the date of their

appearance. No treatise on obstetrics with which we are acquainted can compare favorably with this, in respect to the amount of material which has been gathered from every source.-Boston Med, and Surg. Journal.

There is no better text-book for students, or work of reference and study for the practising physician The present treatise is very much enlarged and than this. It should adorn and enrich every medical amplified beyond the previous editions but nothing | library.-Chicago Med. Journal,

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HENRY C. LEA'S PUBLICATIONS-(Surgery).

GROSS (SAMUEL D.), M.D.,

Professor of Surgery in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia.

A SYSTEM OF SURGERY: Pathological, Diagnostic, Therapeutic, and Operative. Illustrated by upwards of Thirteen Hundred Engravings. Fourth edition, carefully revised, and improved. In two large and beautifully printed royal octavo volumes of 2200 pages, strongly bound in leather, with raised bands. $15 00.

The continued favor, shown by the exhaustion of successive large editions of this great work, proves that it has successfully supplied a want felt by American practitioners and students. Though but little over six years have elapsed since its first publication, it has already reached its fourth edition, while the care of the author in its revision and correction has kept it in a constantly improved shape. By the use of a close, though very legible type, an unusually large amount of matter is condensed in its pages, the two volumes containing as much as four or five ordinary octavos. This, combined with the most careful mechanical execution, and its very durable binding, renders it one of the cheapest works accessible to the profession. Every subject properly belonging to the domain of surgery is treated in detail, so that the student who possesses this work may be said to have in it a surgical library.

It must long remain the most comprehensive work on this important part of medicine.-Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, March 23, 1865.

We have compared it with most of our standard works, such as those of Erichsen, Miller, Fergusson, Syme, and others, and we must, in justice to our author, award it the pre-eminence. As a work, complete in almost every detail, no matter how minute or trifling, and embracing every subject known in the principles and practice of surgery, we believe it stands without a rival. Dr. Gross, in his preface, remarks "my aim has been to embrace the whole do main of surgery, and to allot to every subject its legitimate claim to notice;" and, we assure our readers, he has kept his word. It is a work which we can most confidently recommend to our brethren, for its utility is becoming the more evident the longer it is upon the shelves of our library.-Canada Med. Journal, September, 1863.

The first two editions of Professor Gross' System of Surgery are so well known to the profession, and so highly prized, that it would be idle for us to speak in praise of this work. Chicago Medical Journal, September, 1865.

We gladly indorse the favorable recommendation of the work, both as regards matter and style, which we made when noticing its first appearance.-British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, Oct. 1865. The most complete work that has yet issued from the press on the science and practice of surgery.

London Lancet.

This system of surgery is, we predict, destined to take a commanding position in our surgical literature, and be the crowning glory of the author's well earned fame. As an authority on general surgical subjects, this work is long to occupy a pre-eminent place, not only at home, but abroad.

We have no

hesitation in pronouncing it without a rival in our language, and equal to the best systems of surgery in any language.-N. Y. Med. Journal.

Not only by far the best text-book on the subject, as a whole, within the reach of American students, but one which will be much more than ever likely to be resorted to and regarded as a high authority abroad.-Am. Journal Med. Sciences, Jan. 1865.

The work contains everything. minor and major, operative and diagnostic, including mensuration and examination, venereal diseases, and uterine manipulations and operations. It is a complete Thesaurus of modern surgery, where the student and practiBY THE SAME author.

tioner shall not seek in vain for what they desire.San Francisco Med. Press, Jan. 1865.

Open it where we may, we find sound practical information conveyed in plain language. This book is no mere provincial or even national system of surgery, but a work which, while very largely indebted to the past, has a strong claim on the gratitude of the future of surgical science.-Edinburgh Med. Journal, Jan. 1865.

A glance at the work is sufficient to show that the author and publisher have spared no labor in making it the most complete "System of Surgery" ever published in any country-St. Louis Med. and Surg. Journal, April, 1865.

The third opportunity is now offered during our editorial life to review, or rather to indorse and recommend this great American work on Surgery. Upon this last edition a great amount of labor has the work was regarded in its previous editions as so been expended, though to all others except the author full and complete as to be hardly capable of improve mented by nearly two hundred pages, and a conment. Every chapter has been revised; the text aug siderable number of wood-cnts have been introduced. Many portions have been entirely re-written, and the additions made to the text are principally of a prae tical character. This comprehensive treatise upon surgery has undergone revisions and enlargements, keeping pace with the progress of the art and science of surgery, so that whoever is in possession of this work may consult its pages upon any topic embraced within the scope of its department, and rest satisfied that its teaching is fully up to the present standard of surgical knowledge. It is also so comprehensive that it may truthfully be said to embrace all that is actually known, that is really of any value in the diagnosis and treatment of surgical diseases and acci

dents. Wherever illustration will add clearness to the

subject, or make better or more lasting impression, it is not wanting: in this respect the work is eminently superior.-Buffalo Med. Journal, Dec. 1864.

our language, and which will indelibly associate his A system of surgery which we think unrivalled in name with surgical science. And what, in our opinion, enhances the value of the work is that, while the practising surgeon will find all that he requires in it, it is at the same time one of the most valuable treatises which can be put into the hands of the studeat seeking to know the principles and practice of this branch of the profession which he designs subsequently to follow.-The Brit. Am. Journ., Montreal

DISEASES, INJURIES,

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE AND MALFORMATIONS OF THE URINARY BLADDER, THE PROSTATE GLAND, AND THE URETHRA. Second edition, revised and much enlarged, with one hundred and eighty-four illustrations. In one large and very handsome octavo volume of over nine hundred pages, extra cloth. $4 00.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON FOREIGN BODIES IN THE AIR-PASSAGES. In one handsome octavo volume, extra cloth, with illustrations.

pp. 468. $2 75. MALGAIGNE'S OPERATIVE SURGERY. With unmerous illustrations on wood. In one handsome octavo volume, extra cloth, of nearly 600 pp. $2.50.

SKEY'S OPERATIVE SURGERY. In one very handsome octavo volume, extra cloth, of over 650 pages, with about 100 wood-cats. $3 25.

HENRY C. LEA'S PUBLICATIONS—(Surgery).

ERICHSEN (JOHN),

Senior Surgeon to University College Hospital.

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THE SCIENCE AND ART OF SURGERY; being a Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases, and Operations. From the Fifth enlarged and carefully revised London Edition. With Additions by JOHN ASHHURST, Jr., M. D., Surgeon to the Episcopal Hospital, &c. Illustrated by over six hundred Engravings on wood. In one very large and beautifully printed imperial octavo volume, containing over twelve hundred closely printed pages: cloth, $7 50; leather, raised bands, $8 50.

This volume having enjoyed repeated revisions at the hands of the author has been greatly enlarged, and the present edition will thus be found to contain at least one-half more matter than the last American impression. On the latest London edition, just issued, especial care has been bestowed. Besides the most minute attention on the part of the author to bring every portion of it thoroughly on a level with the existing condition of science, he called to his aid gentlemen of distinction in special departments. Thus a chapter on the Surgery of the Eye and its Appendages has been contributed by Mr. Streatfeild; the section devoted to Syphilis has been rearranged under the supervision of Mr. Berkeley Hill; the subjects of General Surgical Diseases, including Pyæmia, Scrofula, and Tumors, have been revised by Mr. Alexander Bruce; and other professional men of eminence have assisted in other branches. The work may thus be regarded as embodying a complete and comprehensive view of the most advanced condition of British surgery; while such omissions of practical details in American surgery as were found have been supplied by the editor, Dr. Ashhurst.

Thus complete in every respect, thoroughly illustrated, and containing in one beautifully printed volume the matter of two or three ordinary octavos, it is presented at a price which renders it one of the cheapest works now accessible to the profession. A continuance of the very remarkable favor which it has thus far enjoyed is therefore confidently expected.

The high position which Mr. Erichsen's Science and Art of Surgery has for some time attained, not only in this country, but on the Continent and in America, almost limits the task of the reviewer, on the appear ance of a new edition, to the mere announcement. Elaborate analysis and criticism would be out of place; and nothing remains to be done except to state in general terms that the author has bestowed on it that labor which such a work required in order to be made a representative of the existing state of surgical science and practice. Of the merits of the book as a guide to the "Science and Art of Surgery" it is not necessary for us to say much. Mr. Erichsen is one of BY THE SAME AUTHOR. (Just Issued.)

those enlightened surgeons of the present day, who regard an acquaintance with the manual part of surgery as only a portion of that knowledge which a surgeon should possess.-British Medical Journal, Jan. 2, 1869.

Thus the work bears in every feature a stamp of novelty and freshness which will commend it to those who are making its acquaintance for the first time, whilst those who have found it a safe guide and friend in former years will be able to refer to the new edition for the latest information upon any point of surgical controversy.-London Lancet, Jan. 23, 1869.

ON RAILWAY, AND OTHER INJURIES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. In small octavo volume. Extra cloth, $1 00.

MILLER (JAMES),

Late Professor of Surgery in the University of Edinburgh, &c.

PRINCIPLES OF SURGERY. Fourth American, from the third and revised Edinburgh edition. In one large and very beautiful volume of 700 pages, with two hundred and forty illustrations on wood, extra cloth. $375.

BY THE SAME author.

THE PRACTICE OF SURGERY. Fourth American, from the last Edinburgh edition. Revised by the American editor. Illustrated by three hundred and sixty-four engravings on wood. In one large octavo volume of nearly 700 pages, extra cloth. $375.

It is seldom that two volumes have ever made so | profound an impression in so short a time as the Principles" and the "Practice" of Surgery by Mr. Miller, or so richly merited the reputation they have

PIRRIE (WILLIAM), F. R. S. E.,

acquired. The author is an eminently sensible, practical, and well-informed man, who knows exactly what he is talking about and exactly how to talk it.Kentucky Medical Recorder.

Professor of Surgery in the University of Aberdeen.

THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SURGERY.

Edited by

JOHN NEILL, M. D., Professor of Surgery in the Penna. Medical College, Surgeon to the Pennsylvania Hospital, &c. In one very handsome octavo volume of 780 pages, with 316 illustrations, extra cloth. $3 75.

SARGENT (F. W.), M. D.

ON BANDAGING AND OTHER OPERATIONS OF MINOR SURGERY. New edition, with an additional chapter on Military Surgery. One handsome royal 12mo. volume, of nearly 400 pages, with 184 wood-cuts. Extra cloth, $175. Exceedingly convenient and valuable to all members of the profession.-Chicago Medical Examiner, May, 1862.

The very best manual of Minor Surgery we have Bean.-Buffalo Medical Journal,

We cordially commend this volume as one which the medical student should most closely study; and to the surgeon in practice it must prove itself instruct ive on many points which he may have forgotten.Brit. Am. Journal, May. 1862.

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HENRY C. LEA'S PUBLICATIONS-(Surgery).

DRUITT (ROBERT), M. R. C.S., &c.

THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF MODERN SURGERY. A new and revised American, from the eighth enlarged and improved London edition. Illustrated with four hundred and thirty-two wood-engravings. In one very handsome octavo volume, of nearly 700 large and closely printed pages. Extra cloth, $4 00; leather, $5 00. All that the surgical student or practitioner could desire.-Dublin Quarterly Journal,

It is a most admirable book. We do not know when we have examined one with more pleasure. Boston Med. and Surg. Journal.

In Mr. Druitt's book, though containing only some seven hundred pages, both the principles and the practice of surgery are treated, and so clearly and perspicuously, as to elucidate every important topic. The fact that twelve editions have already been called for, in these days of active competition, would of itself show it to possess marked superiority. We have examined the book most thoroughly, and can say that this success is well merited. His book, moreover, possesses the inestimable advantages of having the subjects perfectly well arranged and classified, and of being written in a style at once clear and succinct.-Am. Journal of Med. Sciences.

Whether we view Druitt's Surgery as a guide to operative procedures, or as representing the latest

HAMILTON (FRANK H.), M.D.,

theoretical surgical opinions, no work that we are at present acquainted with can at all compare with it. It is a compendium of surgical theory (if we may use the word) and practice in itself, and well deserves the estimate placed upon it.-Brit. Am. Journal,

Thus enlarged and improved, it will continue to rank among our best text-books on elementary surgery.-Columbus Rev. of Med. and Surg.

We must close this brief notice of an admirable work by recommending it to the earnest attention of every medical student.-Charleston Medical Journal and Review.

A text-book which the general voice of the profes sion in both England and America has commended as one of the most admirable "manuals," or, "ende mecum," as its English title runs, which can be placed in the hands of the student. The merits of Druitt's Surgery are too well known to every one to need any further eulogium from us.-Nashville Med. Journal.

Professor of Fractures and Dislocations, &c. in Bellevue Hosp. Med. College, New York.

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS. Third edition, thoroughly revised. In one large and handsome octavo volume of 777 pages, with 294 illustrations, extra cloth, $5 75. (Just Issued.)

In fulness of detail, simplicity of arrangement, and American professor of surgery; and his book adds accuracy of description, this work stands unrivalled. one more to the list of excellent practical works which So far as we know, no other work on the subject in have emanated from his country, notices of which the English language can be compared with it. While have appeared from time to time in our columus dacongratulating our trans-Atlantic brethren on the ring the last few months.- London Lancet, Dec. 15, European reputation which Dr. Hamilton, along with 1866. many other American surgeons, has attained, we also may be proud that, in the mother tongue, a classical work has been produced which need not fear comparison with the standard treatises of any other nation. -Edinburgh Med. Journal, Dec. 1866.

The credit of giving to the profession the only com plete practical treatise on fractures and dislocations in our language during the present century, belongs to the author of the work before us, a distinguished

CURLING (T. B.), F.R.S.,

These additions make the work much more valua ble, and it must be accepted as the most complete monograph on the subject, certainly in our own, if not even in any other language.- American Journal Med. Sciences, Jan. 1867.

This is the most complete treatise on the subject ta the English language.-Ranking's Abstract, Jan. 1867. A mirror of all that is valuable in modern surgery. Richmond Med. Journal, Nov. 1866.

Surgeon to the London Hospital, President of the Hunterian Society, &c.

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THE TESTIS, SPERMATIC CORD, AND SCROTUM. Second American, from the second and enlarged English edition. In one handsome octavo volume, extra cloth, with numerous illustra tions. pp. 420. $200.

BRODIE'S CLINICAL LECTURES ON SURGERY. GIBSON'S INSTITUTES AND PRACTICE OF SUR1 vol. 8vo., 350 pp.; cloth, $1 25. COOPER'S LECTURES ON THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SURGERY. In one very large octavo volume, extra cloth, of 750 pages. $2 00.

ASHTON (T. J.)

GERY. Eighth edition, improved and altered. With thirty-four plates. In two handsome octavo vol umes, about 1000 pp., leather, raised bands. $6 50. MACKENZIE ON DISEASES AND INJURIES OF THE EYE. 1 vol. 8vo., 1027 pp., extra cloth. 86.

ON THE DISEASES, INJURIES, AND MALFORMATIONS OF THE RECTUM AND ANUS; with remarks on Habitual Constipation. Second American, from the fourth and enlarged London edition. With handsome illustrations. In one very beautifully printed octavo volume of about 300 pages. $3 25. (Just Issued.)

We can recommend this volume of Mr Ashton's in the strongest terms, as containing all the latest details of the pathology and treatment of diseases connected with the rectum.-Canada Med. Journ., March, 1866. One of the most valuable special treatises that the physician and surgeon can have in his library.Chicago Medical Examiner, Jan. 1866.

MORLAND (W. W.), M.D.

The short period which has elapsed since the appearance of the former American reprint, and the numerous editions published in England, are the best arguments we can offer of the merits, and of the uselessness of any commendation on our part of a book already so favorably known to our readers.-Boston Med. and Surg. Journal, Jan. 25, 1866.

DISEASES OF THE URINARY ORGANS; a Compendium of their Diagnosis, Pathology, and Treatment.

With illustrations.

octavo volume of about 600 pages, extra cloth. $3.50.

In one large and handsome

HENRY C. LEA'S PUBLICATIONS—(Surgery).

WELLS (J. SOELBERG),

Professor of Ophthalmology in King's College Hospital, &c.

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A TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THE EYE. First American Edition, with additions; illustrated with 216 engravings on wood, and six colored plates. Together with selections from the Test-types of Jaeger and Snellen. In one large and very handsome octavo volume of about 750 pages: extra cioth, $5 00; leather, $6 00. (Just Ready.)

A work has long been wanting which should represent adequately and completely the present aspect of British Ophthalmology, and this want it has been the aim of Mr. Wells to supply. The favorable reception of his volume by the medical press is a guarantee that he has succeeded in his undertaking, and in reproducing the work in this country every effort has been made to render it in every way suited to the wants of the American practitioner. Such additions as seemed desirable have been introduced by the editor, Dr. I. Minis Hays, and the number of illustrations has been more than doubled. The importance of test-types as an aid to diagnosis is so universally acknowledged at the present day that it seemed essential to the completeness of the work that they should be added, and as the author recommends the use of those both of Jaeger and of Snellen for different purposes, selections have been made from each, so that the practitioner may have at command all the assistance necessary. The work is thus presented as in every way fitted to merit the confidence of the American profession.

His chapters are eminently readable. His style is clear and flowing. He can be short without over-condensing, and accurate without hair splitting. These merits appear in a remarkable degree when he comes to treat of the more abstruse departments of his subject, and contrast favorably with the labored obscurity which mars the writings of some greater authorities in the same line. We congratulate Mr. Wells upon the success with which he has fulfilled his ideal, as

TOYNBEE (JOSEPH), F. R. S.,

represented in the preface, in producing "an English treatise on the diseases of the eye, which should embrace the modern doctrines and practice of the British and Foreign Schools of Ophthalmology." The new school of Ophthalmology may also be congratulated in having found an exponent who is neither a bigoted partisan of everything new, nor a scoffer at everything old.-Glasgow Med. Journal, May, 1869.

Aural Surgeon to and Lecturer on Surgery at St. Mary's Hospital. THE DISEASES OF THE EAR: their Nature, Diagnosis, and Treatment. With one hundred engravings on wood. Second American edition. In one very handsomely printed octavo volume of 440 pages; extra cloth, $4.

The appearance of a volume of Mr. Toynbee's, therefore, in which the subject of aural disease is treated in the most scientific manner, and our knowledge in respect to it placed fully on a par with that which we possess respecting most other organs of the body, is a matter for sincere congratulation. We may reasonably hope that henceforth the subject of this treatise will cease to be among the opprobria of medical science.-London Medical Review.

LAURENCE (JOHN Z.), F. R. C. S.,

Editor of the Ophthalmic Review, &c.

The work, as was stated at the outset of our notice, is a model of its kind, and every page and paragraph of it are worthy of the most thorough study. Considered all in all-as an original work, well written, philosophically elaborated, and happily illustrated with cases and drawings-it is by far the ablest monograph that has ever appeared on the anatomy and diseases of the ear, and one of the most valuable contributions to the art and science of surgery in the nineteenth century.-N. Am. Med.-Chirurg. Review.

In

Not only, as its modest title suggests, a "HandyBook" of Ophthalmic Surgery, but an excellent and well-digested résumé of all that is of practical value in the specialty.-New York Medical Journal, No

A HANDY-BOOK OF OPHTHALMIC SURGERY, for the use of Practitioners. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. With numerous illustrations. one very handsome octavo volume. (Nearly Ready.) No book on ophthalmic surgery was more needed. Designed, as it is, for the wants of the busy practitioner, it is the ne plus ultra of perfection. It epitomizes all the diseases incidental to the eye in a clear and masterly manner, not only enabling the practi-vember, 1866. tioner readily to diagnose each variety of disease, but affording him the more important assistance of proper treatment. Altogether this is a work which ought certainly to be in the hands of every general practitioner. Dublin Med. Press and Circular, Sept. 12, '66 We cordially recommend this book to the notice of our readers, as containing an excellent outline of modern ophthalmic surgery.-British Med. Journal, October 13, 1866.

This object the authors have accomplished in a highly satisfactory manner, and we know no work we can more highly recommend to the "busy practitioner" who wishes to make himself acquainted with the recent improvements in ophthalmic science. Sueh a work as this was much wanted at this time, and this want Messrs. Laurence and Moon have now well supplied.-Am. Journal Med. Sciences, Jan. 1867.

AWSON (GEORGE), F. R. C. S., Engl.

LA

Assistant Surgeon to the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, &c. INJURIES OF THE EYE, ORBIT, AND EYELIDS: their Immediate and Remote Effects. With about one hundred illustrations. In one very handsome octavo volume, extra cloth, $3 50. (Now Ready.)

This work will be found eminently fitted for the general practitioner. In cases of functional or structural diseases of the eye, the physician who has not made ophthalmic surgery a special study can, in most instances, refer a patient to some competent practitioner. Cases of injury, however, supervene suddenly and usually require prompt assistance, and a work devoted expecially to them cannot but prove essentially useful to those who may at any moment be called upon to treat such accidents. The present volume, as the work of a gentleman of large experience, may be considered as eminently worthy of confidence for reference in all such emergencies.

It is an admirable practical book in the highest and best sense of the phrase.-London Medical Times and Gazette, May 18, 1867.