The cyclopaedia of practical medicine : comprising treatises on the nature and treatment of diseases, materia medica and therapeutics, medical jurisprudence, etc., etc. / Edited by John Forbes, Alexander Tweedie, John Conolly.

Date:: 1848

Credit: The cyclopaedia of practical medicine : comprising treatises on the nature and treatment of diseases, materia medica and therapeutics, medical jurisprudence, etc., etc. / Edited by John Forbes, Alexander Tweedie, John Conolly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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$LIBRARY OF OPHTHALMIC MEDICINE AND SURGERY. Brought up to 1847. A TREATISE ON THEIiSEASES OF TRE EYE. BY W. LAWRENCE, F.R.S., Surgeon Extraordinary to the Queen, Surgeon to Si. Bartholomew's Hospital, &c. &c. A NEW EDITION, With many Modifications and Additiotii, and^ the Introduction of nearly two hundred IllusttatUms, BY ISAAC HAYS, M. D., Surgeon to AVillg' Hospital, Physician to the Pliiladelpliia Orphan Asylum, &e. &c. In one very large octavo volume of near 9U0 pages, with twelve plates and numerous wood-cuts through the text. This is among the largest and most complete works on this interesting and diflicult branch of Medica Science. The early call for a new edition of this work, confirms the opinion expressed by the editor of its great value, and has stimulated him to renewed exertions to increase its usefulness to practitioners, by incorporat-' ing ill il the recent improvements in Ophthalmic Practice. In availing himself, as he has freely done, of the observations and discoveries of his fellow-lahorers in the same fild. the editor has endeavored to do so w;th entire fairness, always awarding to others what justly belongs to them. Among the additions which have been made, may be noticed.—the descriptions of several afl'ections not treated of in the original,—an account of the catoptric examination of the eye. and of its employment as a means of diagnosis.—one hun- dred and seventy-six illusiralions, some of I'em from original drawings,—and a very full index. There have also been introduced in the several chapters on the more important diseases, the results of the editor's ex- perience in regard to their treatment, derived from more than a quarter of a century's devotion to the subject, during all of which period he has been attached to some public institution for the treatmentof diseases of the eye. '•• We think there are few medical works which could be so generally acceptable as this one will be to the profession on this side of the Atlantic. The want of a scientific and comprehensive treatise on Diseases of the Eye, has been much deplored. That want is now well supplied. The reputation of IMr. Lawrence a? an Oculist has been lonq: since fully established; his great im^rit consists in the clearness of his style and the very practical tenor of his work The value of the present beautil'ul edition is greatly enhanced, by the important additions made by the editor. Dr Hays has. for nearly a quarter of a century, been con- nected with public institutions for the trealmeiil of Disea.ses of the Rye, and few men have made better im.- provement than he has, of such extensive opportunities of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the subject The wood-curs are executed with great accuracy and beauty, and no man, who pretends to treat diseases of the eye, should be without this work.—Xancer. JONES ON THE EYE. Now Ready. THE PRINCIPLES~AND PRACTICE OF OPHTHALMIC MEDICINE AND SURGERY. By T. WHARTON JONES, F.R.S., &c. &c. •WITH ONE HUNDRED AND TEN ILLUSTRATIONS. EDITED BY ISAAC HAYS, ]\1.D., &c. In One very neat Volume, large rnynl 12wo., with Fmir Plates, plain or colored, and Ninety- eight well executed Wood-cuts. This voluine will be found to occupy a place hitherto unfilled in this department of medical science. The aim of the author has been to produce a work wliicli should, in a moderate compass, be suffi- cient to serve both as a convenient text-book for students and as a book of reference for practitioners, suitable for those who do not desire to possess the larger and encyclop;cdic treatises, such as L.iwrence's. Thus, by great attention to conciseness of expression, a strict adherence to arrange- ment, and the aid of numerous pictorial illustrations, he has been enabled to embody in it the prin- ciples of ophthalmic medicine, and to point out their practical application more fully than has been done in any other publication of the same size. The execution of the work will be found to correspond with its merit. The illustrations have been engraved and printed with care, and the whole is confidently presented as in every way worthy the attention of the profession. We are confident that the reader will find, on perusal, that the execution of the work amply fulfils the promise of the prelace. and sustains, in every point, the already high reputation of the author as un ophthal- mic surgeon, a.s well as a physiologist and pathologist. The liook !s evidently the result of much lalior and research, and has been written with the greatest care and aiteiilioii; it possesses that best quality which a general work, like a system, or manual, can show, viz:—the quality of having all the materials whenceso- ever derived, so thoroughly wrought up. and digested in the author's mind, as to come forth with the freshness Slid impressiveness of an or'ginal production. We regret that we have received the book at so late a period ax precludes our givinir more than a mere notice of it. as altboush essentially ami necessarily a compilation, it contains many things which we should be glad lo reproduce in our pages, whether in the shape of neyv p.Thological views, of'old errors corrected, or of sound principles of practice in doubtful cases clearly laid down. But we dare say most of our readers will shortly have, an opportunity of seeing these in their original locality, as we entertain little doubt that ibis book will become what its author hoped it might become, a manual for daily reference and consultation by the student and the general practitioner. The work is marked by that correctness, clearness and precision of style which distinguish all the productions of the learned author.''—I'he British and Foreign Medical Review.$