HENRY C. LEA'S PUBLICATIONS-(Midwifery). LEISHMAN (WILLIAM), M.D., Regius Professor of Midwifery in the University of Glasgow, &c. 25 A SYSTEM OF MIDWIFERY, INCLUDING THE DISEASES OF PREGNANCY AND THE PUERPERAL STATE. In one large and very handsome octavo volume of over 700 pages, with one hundred and eighty-two illustrations. Cloth, $5 00; leather, $6 00. (Lately Published.) This is one of a most complete and exhaustive character. We have gone carefully through it, and there is no subject in Obstetrics which has not been considered well and fully. The result is a work, not only admirable as a text-book, but valuable as a work of reference to the practitioner in the various emergencies of obstetric practice. Take it all in all, we have no hesitation in saying that it is in our judgment the best English work on the subject.-London Lancet, Aug. 23, 1873. The work of Leishman gives an excellent view of modern midwifery, and evinces its author's extensive acquaintance with British and foreign literature; and not only acquaintance with it, but wholesome digestion and sound judgment of it. He has, withal, a manly, free style, and can state a difficult and complicated matter with remarkable clearness and brevity. -Edin. Med. Journ., Sept. 1873. The anthor has succeeded in presenting to the profession an admirable treatise, especially in its practical aspects; one which is, in general, clearly written, and sound in doctrine, and one which cannot fail to add to his already high reputation. In concluding our examination of this work, we cannot avoid again saying that Dr. Leishman has fully accomplished that difficult task of presenting a good text-book upon obstetrics. We know none better for the use of the student or junior practitioner.-Am. Practitioner, Mar. 1874. It proposes to offer to practitioners and students "A Complete System of the Midwifery of the Present Day," and well redeems the promise. In all that relates to the subject of labor, the teaching is admirably clear, concise, and practical, representing not alone British practice, but the contributions of Continental and American schools.-N. Y. Med. Record, March 2, 1874. The work of Dr. Leishman is, in many respects, not only the best treatise on midwifery that we have seen, but one of the best treatises on any medical subject that has been published of late years.-Lond. Practitioner, Feb. 1874. It was written to supply a desideratum, and we will be much surprised if it does not fulfil the purpose of its author. Taking it as a whole, we know of no work on obstetrics by an English author in which the student and the practitioner will find the information so clear and so completely abreast of the present state of our knowledge on the subject.-Glasgow Med. Journ., Aug. 1873. Dr. Leishman's System of Midwifery, which has only just been published, will go far to supply the want which has so long been felt, of a really good modern English text-book. Although large, as is inevitable in a work on so extensive a subject, it is so well and clearly written, that it is never wearisome to read. Dr. Leishman's work may be confidently recommended as an admirable text-book, and is sure to be largely used.-Lond. Med. Record, Sept. 1873. 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. 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. $7 00. 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 call 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. A new ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MIDWIFERY. American from the fourth revised and enlarged London edition. With notes and additions by D. FRANCIS CONDIE, M. D., author of a "Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children,' &c. With one hundred and ninety-four illustrations. In one very handsome octavo volume of nearly 700 large pages. Cloth, $4 00; leather, $500. These additions render the work still more complete and acceptable than ever; and 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-Brit. Am. Journal. No treatise on obstetrics with which we are ac quainted can compare favorably with this, in re spect 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 than this. It should adorn and enrich every medical library.-Chicago Med. Journal. MONTGOMERY'S EXPOSITION OF THE SIGNS RIGBY'S SYSTEM OF MIDWIFERY. With Notes and Additional Illustrations. Second American edition. One volume octavo, cloth, 422 pages. $2.60. 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 Fourteen Hundred Engravings. Fifth edition, carefully revised, and improved. In two large and beautifully printed imperial octavo vol. umes of about 2300 pages, strongly bound in leather, with raised bands, $15. (Just Issued.) 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. In the present revision no pains have been spared by the author to bring it in every respect fully up to the day. To effect this a large part of the work has been rewritten, and the whole enlarged by nearly one-fourth, notwithstanding which the price has been kept at its former very moderate rate. 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. A few notices of the previous edition are subjoined : It must long remain the most comprehensive work on this important part of medicine.-Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, March 23, 1865. 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. We have compared it with most of our standard Not only by far the best text-book on the subject, works, such as those of Erichsen, Miller, Fergusson, as a whole, within the reach of American students, but one which will be much more than ever likely Syme, and others, and we must, in justice to our author, award it the pre-eminence. As a work, comto be resorted to and regarded as a high authority plete in almost every detail, no matter how minute abroad.-Am. Journal Med. Sciences, Jan. 1565. or trifling, and embracing every subject known in The work contains everything, minor and major, the principles and practice of surgery, we believe it operative and diagnostic, including mensuration and stands without a rival. Dr. Gross, in his preface, re-examination, venereal diseases, and uterine manipa marks "my aim has been to embrace the whole do-lations and operations. It is a complete Thesaurus main of surgery, and to allot to every subject its of modern surgery, where the student and practilegitimate claim to notice;" and, we assure our tioner shall not seek in vain for what they desire.readers, he has kept his word. It is a work which San Francisco Med. Press, Jan. 1865. 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, 1865. 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 BY THE SAME AUTHOR. 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 pub lished in any country.-St. Louis Med, and Surg. Journal, April, 1865. A system of surgery which we think unrivalled in our language, and which will indelibly associate his 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 student seeking to know the principles and practice of this brauch of the profession which he designs subsequently to follow.-The Brit. Am. Journ., Montreal. A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON FOREIGN BODIES IN THE AIR-PASSAGES. In 1 vol. 8vo., with illustrations, pp. 468, cloth, $275. SKEY'S OPERATIVE SURGERY. In 1 vol. 8vo. COOPER'S LECTURES ON THE PRINCIPLES AND MILLER (JAMES), GIBSON'S INSTITUTES AND PRACTICE OF SURGERY. Eighth edition, improved and altered. With thirty-four plates. In two handsome octavo vel. umes, about 1000 pp., leather, raised bands. $6 50. 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, cloth, $3 75. 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, cloth, $375. 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. Cloth, $175. HENRY C. LEA'S PUBLICATIONS—(Surgery). ASHHURST (JOHN, Jr.), M.D., Surgeon to the Episcopal Hospital, Philadelphia. 27 THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SURGERY. In one very large and handsome octavo volume of about 1000 pages, with nearly 550 illustrations, cloth, $6 50; leather, raised bands, $7 50. (Lately Published.) The object of the author has been to present, within as condensed a compass as possible, a complete treatise on Surgery in all its branches, suitable both as a text-book for the student and a work of reference for the practitioner. So much has of late years been done for the advancement of Surgical Art and Science, that there seemed to be a want of a work which should present the latest aspects of every subject, and which, by its American character, should render accessible to the profession at large the experience of the practitioners of both hemispheres. This has been the aim of the author, and it is hoped that the volume will be found to fulfil its purpose satisfactorily. The plan and general outline of the work will be seen by the annexed CONDENSED SUMMARY OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Inflammation. II. Treatment of Inflammation. III. Operations in general: Anæsthetics. IV. Minor Surgery. V. Amputations. VI. Special Amputations. VII. Effects of Injuries in General: Wounds. VIII. Gunshot Wounds. IX. Injuries of Bloodvessels. X. Injuries of Nerves, Muscles and Tendons, Lymphatics, Bursa, Bones, and Joints. XI. Fractures. XII. Special Fractures. XIII. Dislocations. XIV. Effects of Heat and Cold. XV. Injuries of the Head. XVI. Injuries of the Back. XVII. Injuries of the Face and Neck. XVIII. Injuries of the Chest. XIX. Injuries of the Abdomen and Pelvis. XX. Diseases resulting from Inflammation. XXI. Erysipelas. XXII. Pyæmia. XXIII. Diathetic Diseases: Struma (including Tubercle and Scrofula); Rickets. XXIV. Venereal Diseases; Gonorrhoea and Chancroid. XXV. Venereal Diseases continued: Syphilis. XXVI. Tumors. XXVII. Surgical Diseases of Skin, Areolar Tissue, Lymphatics, Muscles, Tendons, and Bursa. XXVIII. Surgical Disease of Nervous System (including Tetanus). XXIX. Surgical Diseases of Vascular System (including Aneurism). XXX. Diseases of Bone. XXXI. Diseases of Joints. XXXII. Excisions. XXXIII. Orthopaedic Surgery. XXXIV. Diseases of Head and Spine. XXXV. Diseases of the Eye. XXXVI. Diseases of the Ear. XXXVII. Diseases of the Face and Neck. XXXVIII. Diseases of the Mouth, Jaws, and Throat. XXXIX. Diseases of the Breast. XL. Hernia. XLI. Special Herniæ. XLII. Diseases of Intestinal Canal. XLIII. Diseases of Abdominal Organs, and various operations on the Abdomen. XLIV. Urinary Calculus. XLV. Diseases of Bladder and Prostate. XLVI. Diseases of Urethra. XLVII. Diseases of Generative Organs. INDEX. Its author has evidently tested the writings and Indeed, the work as a whole must be regarded as experiences of the past and present in the crucible an excellent and concise exponent of modern surof a careful, analytic, and honorable mind, and faith-gery, and as such it will be found a valuable textfully endeavored to bring his work up to the level of book for the student, and a useful book of reference the highest standard of practical surgery. He is for the general practitioner.-N. Y. Med. Journal, frank and definite, and gives us opinions, and gene- Feb. 1872. rally sound ones, instead of a mere résumé of the opinions of others. He is conservative, but not hidebound by authority. His style is clear, elegant, and scholarly. The work is an admirable tex-tbook, and a useful book of reference It is a credit to American professional literature, and one of the first ripe fruits of the soil fertilized by the blood of our late unhappy war.-N. Y. Med. Record, Feb. 1, 1872. PIRRIE (WILLIAM), F. R. S. E., It gives us great pleasure to call the attention of the profession to this excellent work. Our knowledge of its talented and accomplished author led us to expect from him a very valuable treatise upon subjects to which he has repeatedly given evidence of having profitably devoted much time and labor, and we are in no way disappointed.-Phila. Med. Times, Feb. 1, 1872. 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, cloth, $3 75. HAMILTON (FRANK H.), M.D., Professor of Fractures and Dislocations, &c., in Bellevue Hosp. Med. College, New York. A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS. Fourth edition, thoroughly revised. In one large and handsome octavo volume of nearly 800 pages, with several hundred illustrations. Cloth, $5 75; leather, $6 75. most complete and reliable work on the subject. As a whole, the work is without an equal in the literature of the profession. - Boston Med. and Surg. Journ., Oct. 12, 1871. It is not, of course, our intention to review in ex-rable treatise, which we have always considered the tenso, Hamilton on Fractures and Dislocations." Eleven years ago such review might not have been out of place; to-day the work is an authority, so well, so generally, and so favorably known, that it only remains for the reviewer to say that a new edition is Just out, and it is better than either of its predecessors.-Cincinnati Clinic, Oct. 14, 1871. Undoubtedly the best work on Fractures and Dislocations in the English language.-Cincinnati Med. Repertory, Oct. 1871. It is unnecessary at this time to commend the book, except to such as are beginners in the study of this particular branch of surgery. Every practical surgeon in this country and abroad knows of it as a most trustworthy guide, and one which they, in common with us, would unqualifiedly recommend as the highest authority in any language.-N. Y. Med. Record, We have once more before us Dr. Hamilton's admi- Oct. 16, 1871. 28 HENRY C. LEA'S PUBLICATIONS-(Surgery). ERICHSEN (JOHN E.), Professor of Surgery in University College, London, etc. THE SCIENCE AND ART OF SURGERY; being a Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases, and Operations. Revised by the author from the Sixth and enlarged English Edition. Illustrated by over seven hundred engravings on wood. In two large and beautiful octavo volumes of over 1700 pages, cloth, $9 00; leather, $11 00. (Lately Issued.) Author's Preface to the New American Edition. "The favorable reception with which the Science and Art of Surgery' has been honored by the Surgical Profession in the United States of America has been not only a source of deep gratification and of just pride to me, but has laid the foundation of many professional friendships that are amongst the agreeable and valued recollections of my life. "I have endeavored to make the present edition ofthis work more deserving than its predecessors of the favor that has been accorded to them. In consequence of delays that have unavoidably occurred in the publication of the Sixth British Edition, time has been afforded to me to add to this one several paragraphs which I trust will be found to increase the practical value of the work." LONDON, Oct. 1872. On no former edition of this work has the author bestowed more pains to render it a complete and satisfactory exposition of British Surgery in its modern aspects. Every portion has been sedulously revised, and a large number of new illustrations have been introduced. In addition to the material thus added to the English edition, the author has furnished for the American edition such material as has accumulated since the passage of the sheets through the press in London, so that the work as now presented to the American profession, contains his latest views and experience. The increase in the size of the work has seemed to render necessary its division into two volumes. Great care has been exercised in its typographical execution, and it is confidently presented as in every respect worthy to maintain the high reputation which has rendered it a standard authority on this department of medical science. These are only a few of the points in which the present edition of Mr. Erichsen's work surpasses its predecessors. Throughout there is evidence of a laborious care and solicitude in seizing the passing knowledge of the day, which reflects the greatest credit on the author, and much enhances the value of his work. We can only admire the industry which has enabled Mr. Erichsen thus to succeed, amid the distractions of active practice, in producing emphatically THE book of reference and study for British practitioners of surgery.-London Lancet, Oct. 26, 1872. Considerable changes have been made in this edition, and nearly a hundred new illustrations have been added. It is difficult in a small compass to point out the alterations and additions; for, as the author DRUFTT (ROBERT), M. R. C. S., &c. states in his preface, they are not confined to any one portion, but are distributed generally through the subjects of which the work treats. Certainly one of the most valuable sections of the book seems to us to be that which treats of the diseases of the arteries and the operative proceedings which they necessitate In few text-books is so much carefully arranged information collected.-London Med. Times and Gaz, Oct. 26, 1872. The entire work, complete, as the great English treatise on Surgery of our own time, is, we can assure our readers, equally well adapted for the most junior student, and, as a book of reference, for the advanced practitioner -Dublin Quarterly Journal, 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, 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 ASHTON (T. J.). practice of surgery are treated, and so clearly and perspicuously, as to elucidate every important topic. 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 clas sified, and of being written in a style at once clear and succinct.-Am. Journal of Med. Sciences. 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, cloth, $3 25. BIGELOW (HENRY J.), M. D., 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. In one very handsome octavo volume. Cloth, $250. 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 hand some octavo volume, cloth, $3 50 It is an admirable practical book in the highest and best sense of the phrase.-London Medica! Peras and Gazette. May 18. 1867, HENRY C. LEA'S PUBLICATIONS-(Surgery). BRYANT (THOMAS), F.R.C.S., Surgeon to Guy's Hospital. and fairly, yet it is no mere compilation. The book combines much of the merit of the manual with the merit of the monograph. One may recognize in almost every chapter of the ninety-four of which the work is made up the acuteness of a surgeon who has seen much, and observed closely, and who gives forth the results of actual experience. In conclusion we repeat what we stated at first, that Mr. Bryant's book is one which we can conscientiously recommend both to practitioners and students as an admirable work. -Dublin Journ. of Med. Science, August, 1873. THE PRACTICE OF SURGERY. With over Five Hundred Engravings on Wood. In one large and very handsome octavo volume of nearly 1000 pages, cloth, $6 25; leather, raised bands, $7 25. (Lately Published.) Again, the author gives us his own practice, his own beliets, and illustrates by his own cases, or those treated in Guy's Hospital. This feature adds joint emphasis, and a solidity to his statements that inspire confidence. Que feels himself almost by the side of the surgeon, seeing his work and bearing his living words. The views, etc, of other surgeons are considered calmly and fairly, but Mr. Bryant's are adopted. Thus the work is not a compilation of other writings; it is not an encyclopedia, but the plain statements, on practical points, of a man who has lived and breathed and had his being in the richest surgical experience. The whole profession owe a debt of gratitude to Mr Bryant, for his work in their behalf We are confident that the American profession will give substantial testimonial of their feelings towards both author and publisher, by speedily exhausting this edition. We cordially aud heartily commend it to our friends, and think that no live surgeon can afford to be without it-Detroit Review of Mea, and Pharmacy, August, 1873. As a manual of the practice of surgery for the use of the student, we do not hesitate to pronounce Mr. Bryant's book a first-rate work. Mr. Bryant has a good deal of the dogmatic energy which goes with the clear, pronounced opinions of a man whose reflections and experience have moulded a character not wanting in firmness and decision. At the same time he teaches with the enthusiasm of one who has faith in his teaching; he speaks as one baving anthority, and herein lies the charm and excellence of his work. He states the opinions of others freely WELLS (J. SOELBERG), Mr. Bryant has long been known to the reading portion of the profession as an able, clear, and graphic writer upon surgical subjects. The volume before us is one eminently upon the practice of surgery and not one which treats at length on surgical pathology, though the views that are entertained upon tuis subject are sufficiently interspersed through the work for all practical purposes. As a text-book we cheerfully recommend it, feeling convinced that, from the subject-matter, and the concise and true way Mr. Bryant deals with his subject, it will prove a formidable rival among the numerous surgical textbooks which are offered to the student.-N. Y. Med. Record, June, 1873. This is, as the preface states, an entirely new book, and contains in a moderately condensed form all the surgical information necessary to a general practitioner. It is written in a spirit consistent with the present improved standard of medical and surgical science.-American Journal of Obstetrics, August, 1873. Professor of Ophthalmology in King's College Hospital, &c. A TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THE EYE. Second American, from the Third and Revised London Edition, with additions; illustrated with numerous 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 nearly 800 pages; cloth, $5 00; leather, $6 00. (Lately Published.) The continued demand for this work, both in England and this country, is sufficient evidence that the author has succeeded in his effort to supply within a reasonable compass a full practical digest of ophthalmology in its most modern aspects, while the call for repeated editions has enabled him in his revisions to maintain its position abreast of the most recent investigations and improvements. In again reprinting it, every effort has been made to adapt it thoroughly 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 largely increased. 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. Although enlarged by one hundred pages, it has been retained at the former very moderate price, rendering it one of the cheapest volumes before the profession. A few notices of the previous edition are subjoined. On examining it carefully, one is not at all surprised that it should meet with universal favor. It is, in fact, a comprehensive and thoroughly practical treatise on diseases of the eye, setting forth the practice of the leading oculists of Europe and America, and giving the author's own opinions and preferences, which are quite decided and worthy of high consid eration. The third English edition, from which this is taken, having been revised by the author, comprises a notice of all the more recent advances made in ophthalmic science. The style of the writer is LAURENCE (JOHN Z.), F. R. C. S., Editor of the Ophthalmic Review, &c. lucid and flowing, therein differing materially from some of the translations of Continental writers on this subject that are in the market. Special pains are taken to explain, at length, those subjects which are particularly difficult of comprehension to the beginner, as the use of the ophthalmoscope, the interpretation of its images, etc. The book is profusely and ably illustrated, and at the end are to be found 16 excellent colored ophthalmoscopic figures, which are copies of some of the plates of Liebreich's admirable atlas.-Kansas City Med. Journ., June, 1874. A HANDY-BOOK OF OPHTHALMIC SURGERY, for the use of Practitioners. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. With numerous illustrations. In one very handsome octavo volume, cloth, $3 00. For those, however, who must assume the care of diseases and injuries of the eye, and who are too much pressed for time to study the classic works on the subject, or those recently published by Stellwag, Wells, Bader, and others, Mr. Laurence will prove a safe and trustworthy guide. He has described in this edition those novelties which have secured the confidence of the profession since the appearance of his last. The volume has been considerably enlarged and improved by the revision and additions of its author, expressly for the American edition.-Am. Journ. Med. Sciences, Jan. 1870. |