A system of human anatomy : general and special / by Erasmus Wilson.

  • William James Erasmus Wilson
Date:
1868
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    rpUKE [DANIEL HACK), M.D., -*• Jinnt author of T?ie Manual of Psychological Hfedicine, &o. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE MIND UPON THE BODY IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. Designed to illustrnte the Action of the Imagination. In one handsome oetavo volume of 41(i pages, c'oth, $3 26. {Ji/st Issued.) The object of the author in this work has been to show not only the effect of the mind in caus- ing and intensifying disease, but also its curative influence, and the use which may bo made of the imagination and the emotions as therapeutic agents. Scattered facts bearing upon thi.s sub- ject have long been familiar to the profession, but no attempt has hitherto been made to collect and systematize them so as to render them available to the practitioner, by establishing the seve- ral phenomena upon a scientific basis. In the endeavor thus to convert to the use of legitimate medicine the means which have been employed so successfully in many systems of quackery, the author has produced a work of the highest freshness and interest as well as of permanent value. -DLANDFORD [G. FIELDING), M. D., F. R. C P., •*-' Lecturer on Psychologioa.l Medicine at the School of St. George's Hospital, <fec. INSANITY AND ITS TREATMENT: Lectures on the Treatment, Medicrrl and Legal, of Insane Patients. With a Summary of the Laws in force in the United States on the Confinement of the Insane. By Isaac Ray, M. D. Iu one very handsome octavo volume of 471 pages; cloth, $3 25. This volume is presented to meet the want, so frequently expressed, of a comprehensive trea- tise, in moderate compass, on the pathology, diagnosis, and treatment of insanity. To render it of more value to the practitioner in this country. Dr. Ray has added an appendix which aflbrds in- formation, not elsewhere to be found in so accessible a form, to physicians who may at any moment be called upon to take action in relation to patients. , It satisfies a want which must have been sorely felt by the busy general praciitioners of this country. It takes tie form of a manual of clinical description of the various forms of insanity, with a description of the mode of esamining persons suspected of in- Eanity. We call particular attention to this feature of the book, as giving it a unique value to the gene- ral practitioner. If we pass from theoretical conside- rations to descriptions of the varieties of insanity as actually seen in practice and the appropriate treai- ment for them, we find in Dr. Blandford's work a considerable advance over previous writings on the subject. His pictures of the various forms of mental disease are so clear and good that no reader can fail to be struck with their superiority to those given in ordinary manuals in the English language or (so far as our own reading extends; in any other.—London Practitioner, I'eb. 1871. yU'INSLOW {FORBES), M.D., D.G.L., Sfc. ON OBSCURE DISEASES OF THE BRAIN AND DISORDERS OP THE MIND; their incipient Symptoms, Pathology, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Pro- phylaxis. Second American, from the thir^ and revised English edition. In one handsome octavo volume of nearly 600 pages, cloth, $4 25. EA {HENRY C). ^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 600 pages; cloth, $2 76. (Lately Fublished.) interesting phases of human society and progress. . The fulness and breadth with which he has carried out his comparative survey of this repulsive field of history [Torture], are such as to preclude our doing justice to the work within our present limits. But here, asthroughout the volume, there will ue fonad a wealth of illustration and a critica,! grasp of i he philosophical import of facts which will render iui. Lea's labors of sterling value to the historical tia- dent.—London Saturdny Reoieio, Oct. S, 1870. We know of no single work which contains, in so small a compass, so much illustrative of the strangest oper.Htions of the human mind. Foot-notes give the authority for each statement, showing vast research and wonderful industry. We advise our confrtres to read this book and ponder its teachings.—Olticago Med. Journal, Aug. 1870. 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 AthencBiiin, Nov. :i, 1866. He has thrown a great deal of light upon what must be regarded as one of the most instructive as well as As a book of ready reference on the subject, it is of the highest value.— Westminster Review, Oct. 1867. B I TEE SAME AUTHOR. (Late'y PuMi.t/ied.) STUDIES IN CHURCH HISTORY—THE RISE OP THE TEM- PORAL POWER—BENEFIT OF CLERGY—EXCOMMUNICATION. In one large royal 12mo. volume of 516 pp. cloth, $2 75. The story was never told more calmly or with greater learning or wiser thought. We doubt, indeed, If any other study of this field can be compared with this for clearness, accuracy, and power. — Chicago Examiner, Deo. 1870. Mr. Lea's latest work, Studies in Church History, fully sustains the promise of the first. It deals with three subjects—the Temporal Power, Benefit of Clergy, and Excommunication, the record of which has a peculiar importance for the English student, and Is a chapter on Ancient Law likely to be regarded as final. We can hardly pass from our mention of such works as these—with which that on Sacerdotal Celibacy should be included—without noting the literary phenomenon that the head of one of the first American houses is also the writer of some of its most original books.—London Athenaum, Jan. 7, 1871. Mr. Lea has done great honor to himself and this country by the admirable wor.ks he has written on ecclesiologicaland cognate subjects. We have already had occasion to commend his Superstition and Force and his History of Sacerdotal Celibacy. The present volume is fully as admirable in its me- thod of dealing with topics and iu the thoroughnesb— a quality so frequently lackingin American authors— with which they are ini^estigated.—A'. Y. Journal of Psychol. Medicine, July, 1870.