A treatise on the principles and practice of medicine : designed for the use of practitioners and students of medicine / by Austin Flint.

Austin Flint I

Date:: 1884

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$PLAYFAIR, W, S., 31. J>., F, B, C. JP,, Professor of Obstetric Medicine in King's College, London, etc. A Treatise on the Science and Practice of Midwifery, Third American edition, revised by the Author. Edited, with additions, by Egbert P. Harris, M. D. In one handsome octavo volume of 659 pages, with 183 illustrations. Cloth, $4; leather, $5; liall Kussia, $5.50. The mediciil profession has now the opportunity! all details not necessary for a full understanding of adding to their stoclv of standard medical worlvs of the subject are omitted.—Cincinnati MeawS, one of the best volumes on midwifery ever pub- lished. The subject is taken up with a master hand. Tlie part devoted to labor in all it.s various presentations, the management and results, is ad- mirabiv arranged, and the views entertained will be found essentially modern, and the opinions ex- pressed trustworthy. The work abounds with plates, illustrating various obstetrical positions; they are admirably wrought, and afford great assistance to the student.—N. 0. Medical and Sur- gical J'/urnnl, March, 18S0. If inquired of by a medical student what work on obstetrics we should recommend for him, par excelUnce, we would undoubtedly advise him to choose Playfair's. It is of convenient size, but what is of chief importance, its treatment of the various subjects is concise and plain. While the discussions and descriptions are sufficiently elabo- rate to render a very intelligible idea of them, yet News, Jan., ISSO. It certainly is an admirable exposition of the science and practice of midwifery. Of course the additions made by the American editor, Dr. R. P. Harris, who never utters an idle word, and whose studious researches in some special departments of obstetrics are so well known to the profession, are of great value.— The A7nerican Practitioner, April, 1880. The third edition—so soon following the second— shows that the good qualities of the book have been recognized by the profession. The second Ameri- can has been exhausted before the second English edition, and this is therefore especially prepared and revised by the author for this country ; a fact which ought to be satisfactory as to the profession here being furnished with the latest work upon all sul)jects pertaining to obstetrics.—Atn. Journal of Med. Sciences, April, 18S0. KING, A, F, A,, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women in the Medical Department of the Columbian Univer- sity, Washington, D. C, and in the University of Vermont, etc. A Manual of Obstetrics. New edition. In one very handsome 12mo. volume of 331 pages, witli 59 illustrations. Cloth, $2.00. Just ready. A notice of the previous edition is appended. lent obstetric dictionary, and well suited to the stu- Though the book appears small externally, it contains as complete a consideration of obstetric subjects as many larger volumes, and this is chiefly owing to a directness of expression, and an avoidance of repetition and of waste of words. The author endeavors to place theories, causes of disease and methods of treatment in that order which, by weight of authority, they merit. His excellent judgment has availed hirn well in this effort. While, in one sense, the book is an excel- dent, it is also of value to the general practitioner, who often desires to find a resume of information upon a given subject. It will be of further value to the latter, as, in our opinion, the author holds most sensible views on practical matters. The book is admirably arranged for reference, being well paragraphed, with suitable sub-divisions, and well mdexed.—American Journal of Obstetrics, Aug. 1882. FAMVIW, THEOFHILUS, M, !>., LL, J>., Professor of Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Children m the Jefferson Medical College. A Treatise on Midwifery. In one very handsome octavo volume of about 550 pages, with numerous illustrations. In jyess. BARNES, ROBERT, M, I)., and FANCOTTRT, 31. D., Phys. to the General Lying-in Hasp., Loud. Obstetric Phys. to St. Thomas'' Hosp., Lond. A System of Obstetric Medicine and Surgery, Theoretical and Clin- ical. For the Student and the Practitioner. The Section on Embryology contributed by Prof. ]\Iilnes Marshall. In two handsome octavo volumes, profusely illustrated. In press. BARNES, FANCOURT, M. D., Obstetric Physician to St. Thomas' Hospital, London. A Manual of Midwifery for Midwives and Medical Students. In one royal 12mo. volume of 197 pages, with 50 illustrations. Cloth, $1.25. FARRY, JOHN S., 31. !>., Obstetrician to the Philadelphia Hospital, Vice-President of the Obsiet. Society of Philadelphia. Extra - Uterine Pregnancy: Its Clinical History, Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment. In one handsome octavo volume of 272 pages. Cloth, $2.50. TANNER, TH031AS HAWKES, 31. D. On the Signs and Diseases of Pregnancy. First American from the second English edition. In one handsome octavo volume of 490 pages, with 4 colored plates and 16 woodcuts. Cloth, $4.25. WINCKEL, F. A Complete Treatise on the Pathology and Treatment of Childbed. For Students and Practitioners. Translated, with the consent of the Author, from the second German edition, bv James Read Chadwick, M. D. In one octavo volume of 484 pages. Cloth, $4.00.$