Twelve lectures on the structure of the central nervous system : for physicians and students / by Ludwig Edinger.

Date:: 1890

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$Ab5TRACT5 FKOn ReV1EW5*'*5m1TM'5 PhY510L0QY. ^^^^ — The work Ihronghout is well balanced. Broad, though not encyclopsedic, concise without sacrificing clearness, it combines the essentials of a successful text-book. It is eminently modern, and, although first in the field, is of such grade of excellence that successors must reach a high standard be- fore they become competitors.—Aimals of Surgeri/. Dr. Smith has conferred a great benefit upon the veterinary profession by his con- tribution to their use of a work of immense value, and has provided the American vet- erinary student with the only means by which he can become properly mmiliar with the physiology of our domestic animals. Veterinary practitioners and graduates will read it with pleasure. Veterinary students will readily acquire needed knowledge from it« pages, and veterinary schools which would be well equipped for the work they aim to perform cannot ignore it as their text-book in physiology.^—American Veteri- nary Meview. Dr. Smith's presentment of his subject is aa brief as the status of the science per- mits, and to this much-desired conciseness he has added an equally welcome clearness of statement. The illustrations in the work are exceedingly good, and must prove a valuable k\d to the full understanding of tlie text.—Journal of Comparative Medicine and Surgery. We have examined the work in a great many particulars, and find the views so correct, where we have had the means of comparison of statements with those of some recognized authority, that we will be com- pelled hereafter to look to this work as the text-book on physiology of animals. The book will prove of incalculable benefit to veterinarians wherever they may be found; and to the country physician, who is often called upon to attend to sick animals as well as numan beings, we would say, lose no time in getting this work and let him familiarize himself with the facts it con- tains.— Virginia Medical Monthly. Altogether, Professor Smith's Physi- ology of the Domestic Animals is a happy production, and will be hailed with delight in both the human medical and veterinary medical worlds. It should find its place besides in all agricultural libraries.—Paul PAftunr, M.D., V.S., in the Weekly Me lical Jteview. It may be said that it supplies to the veterinary student the place in physiology that Chauvcau's incomparable work— The Comparative Anatomy of the Domesticated Animals—occupies in anatomy. Higher ])rai8e than this it is not possible to bestow. And since it is true that the same laws of physiology which are applicable to the vital firocefls of the domestic animals are also ap- plicable to man, a ])erusal of this carefully wril tf.n book will repay the medical student or })ractitioner.—Canadian Practitioner. 1^ The work before us fills the hiatus of which complaint has so often been made, and gives in the compass of less than a thousand pages a very full and complete account of the functions of the body in both carnivora and herbivora. The author has judiciously made the nutritive functions the strong point of the work, and haa devoted special attention to the subject of foods and digestion. In looking through the other sections of the work, it appears to us that a just proportion of space is assigned to each, in view of their relative importance to the practitioner. Thus, while the subject of re- production is dismissed in a few pages, a chapter of considerable length is devoted to locomotion, and especially to the gaits of the horse.—London Lancet. This is almost the only work of the kind in the English language, and it so fully covers every detail of general and special physioloQT that there is no room for any rival. The excellence of typographical work, and the wealth, beauty, and clear- ness of the illustrations, correspond with the thoroughness and clearness of the ' treatise.—Albany Medical Annals. It is not often that the medical profes- sion has the opportunity of reading a new book upon a new subject, and doubtless English-speaking physicians will feel grate- ful to Professor Smith for his admirable and pioneer work in a branch of medical science upon which a great amount of ignor- ance prevails. . .' . The last portion of the work is devoted to the reproductive functions, and contains much valuable in- ' formation upon a portion of animal physi- ology concerning which many are ignorant. The book is a valuable one in every way, and will be consulted largely by veterinary and medical students and practitioners.— Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal. The appearance of this work is most op- portune. It will be much appreciated, as tending to secure the thorough comprehen- sion ot function in the domesticated ani- mals, and, in consequence, their general well-being—a matter of world-wide impor- tance. With a thorough sense of gratifica- tion we have perused its pages; throughout we find clear expression, clear reasoning, and that patient accumulation of facts so valuable in a text-book for students.— British Medical Journal. For notice this time, I take up the vol- ume on the Physiology of the Domestic Animals, by Dr. R. Meade Smith, a volunie of 938 pages, closely printed, and dealing with its subject in a manner sufficiently ex- haustive to insure its place as a text-nook for fifteen years at the veVy least. Its learning is only equaled by its industry, and its industry hy the consistency and skill with which itii varied parts are brought together into harmonious, lucid, and in- tellectual unity.—Dr. Ben.iamin Ward Richardson, in the Lond,on. Asdcpiad. ~ —~ !6c-$

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