A practical treatise on foreign bodies in the air-passages.
- Samuel David Gross
- Date:
- 1854
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A practical treatise on foreign bodies in the air-passages. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![STILLE (ALFRED), M. D., Professor of the Theory ami Practice of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania. THERAPEUTICS AND MATERIA MEDICA; a Systematic Treatise on the Action and Uses of Medicinal Agents, including their Description and History. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. In two large and handsome octavo volumes, extra cloth. $10 00. (Now Ready.) This work is designed especially for the student and practitioner of medicine, and treats the various articles of the Materia Medica from the point of view of the bedside, and not ol the shop or ol the lecture-room While thus endeavoring to give all practical information likelv t > be Useful with respect to the employment of special remedies in speciaj affections, and the results to b6 anticipated from their administration, a copious Index of Diseases and their Remedies renders the work emi- nently fitted for reference by showing at a glance the different means which have been employed, and enabling the practitioner to extend his resources in difficult cases with all that the experience of the profession has suggested. The speedy demand for another edition of this work shows that it has accep'ably 111 led an acknow- ledged want Notxertion of the author has been wanting to render it worthy a continuance of the favor with which it has been received, while an al eratibn in the typographical arrangement has accomm idated the additions without increasing unduly the size of the volumes. Rarely, indeed, have we had submitted tu us a tinned. Stille. His great work on Materia Medi- work on medicine so ponderous in its dimensions ea and Therapeutics, published last year, in two as that now before us, and yet so fascinating in its , octavo volumes, of some sixteen hundred pages, contents. It, is, therefore, with a peculiar gratifi- while if embodies the results of the labor of others cation that we recognize in Dr. Stille the posses- | up to the time of publication, is enriched with a sion of many of those more distinguished qualifica- i great amount of original observation and research, tions which entitle him to approbation, and which We would diaw attention, by the way, to t.ne very jwstify him in coming before his medical brethren convenient mode in which the Index is arranged in as an instructor, a comprehensive knowledge, this work. There is first an •'Index of Remedies ;' tested by a sound and penetrating judgment, joined next an '' Index of Diseases and their Remedies. to a love of progress-which a discriminating spirit ; Such an arrangement of the Indices, in our opinion, of inquiry has tempered so as to accept nothing new greatly enhances the practical value of books of this because it is new, and abandon nothing old because | kind. In tedious, obstinate cases of disease, where it is old, bat which estimates either accorc ing to its , we have to try one remedy after another until our relations ro a just logic and experience—manifests stock is pretty nearly exhausted, and we are almost itself everywhere, and gives to the guidance of the ( driven to our wit's end, such an index as Uie second author all he assurance of safety which the dim of the two just mentioned, is precisely what we culties of his subject can allow. In conclusion, we J want.—London Med. Times and Gazette, April, 1861. earnestly advise our readers to ascertain for them- VVe thlllk tnU work WiH d mucn l(p „hviate the selves, by a study ofDr. Suite's volumes the great ' reluctance to a thorough investigation of this branch value and interest of the stores of Knowledge they , ()t- st.jei]tlhc study fu° Ln the w*de ra ,„■ llle(ljcal present We have pleasure in referring rather to |lterature treasured in the English tongue, we shall the ample treasury of undoubted truths, the real and , „ardl find a wurk written ul ° slyle m°,re clear and assured conquest of medicine, accumulatedI by Dr. j simple, conveying forcibly the facts taught, and yet i^!. !.!o Jll^f/.IL^ ; free from turgidity and redundancy. There isa fas- cination in its pages that will insure to it a wide bors to the attention of our readers as alike honor able t our science, and creditable to the zeal, the candoi and the judgment of him who has garnered the wl ile so carefully.—Edinburgh Med- Journal. The most recent authority is the one last men- popularity and attentive perusal, and a degree of nssfulness not often attained through the influence ot a single work. SIMPSON (J. Y.), M. D., Professor of Midwifery, &c, in the University of Edinburgh, &c. CLINICAL LECTURES ON THE DISEASES OF WOMEN. With mi- merous illustrations. In one handsome octavo volume, of over 500 pages, exlra cloth, $4 00 (Now Ready, 1863.) This valuable work having passed through the columns of The Medical News and Library for I860, lSol, and 1862, is now completed, and may be had separate in one handsome volume. The principal topics embraced in the Lectures are Vesieo-Vaginal Fistula, Cancer of the Uterus Treatment of Care noma by Caustics, Dysmenorrhoea, Aaienorrhoea, Closures, Contractions, &c. of the Vagina, Vulvitis, Causes of Death after Surgical Operations, Surgical Fever, Phlegmasia Dolens, Coccyodinia, Pelvic Cellulitis, Pelvic Hsematoma, Spurious Pregnancy, Ovarian Dropsy, Ovariotomy, Cramoclasm, Diseases of the Fallopian Tubes, Puerperal Mania, Sub-involution and Super-Invo!ution of the Uterus, &c. &c. As a series of monographs on these important topics—many of which receive little attention in the ordinary text-books—elucidated with the extensive experience and readiness of resource for which Professor Simpson is so distinguished, there are lew practitioners who will not iind in its pages matter of the utmost importance in the treat man! of obscure and difficult cases. SALTER (H. H ), M. D. ASTHMA; its Pathology, Causes, Consequences, and Treatment. In one vol. 8vo., extra cloth (Just Issued.) $2 50. The portion of Dr. Salter's work which is devoted i and this we shall little regret, if, by our silence, to treatment, is ol great practical interest.and value. It would be necessary to tollow him step by step in his remarks, not only on the medicinal, but also on the dietetic aiid hygienic treatment of the disease, in order to convey a just notion ol tne practical value of this part of his work. This our space forbids, we should induce our readers to possess ihenioelves of the book itself j a book which, without uoubt, de- serves to be ranked am >ng the most valuable of re- cent contributions to the medical literature of this country. — Ranking's Abstract, Jan , 1861. SLADE (D. D.), M. D. DIPHTHERIA: its Nature and Treatment, with an account of the History of its Prevalence in various countries. Second and revised edition. In one neat royal 12nio. volume, extra cloth. $1 25. 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