Lectures on the diseases of infancy and childhood / by Charles West.

  • Charles West
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1874
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    rrUKE (DANIEL BACK), M.D., •*■ Joint author of The Manual of Psychological Medicine, &c. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE MIND UPON THE BODY IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. Designed to illustrate the Action of the Imagination. In one handsome octavo volume of 416 pages, cloth, $3 25. {Just 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, hut also its curative influence, and the use which may be made of the imagination and the emotions as therapeutic agents. Scattered facts bearing upon this 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 {O. FIELDING), 31. D., E. R. C P., .*-* Lecturer on Psychological Medicine at the School of St. Georges Hospital, £-c. INSANITY AND ITS TREATMENT: Lectures on the Treatment, Medical 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. In one very handsome octavo volume of 471 pages; cloth, %'.\ 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. Kay has added an appendix which affords 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 actually seen iu practice ami the appropriate treat- felt by the busygeneral practitioners of this country. I ment lor them, we find in Or. Blaudford's work a It takes the form of a manual of clinical description i considerable advauce over previous writings on the of the various forms of insanity, with a description of the mode of examining persons suspected of in- sauity. 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 ubject. Hits 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 irdiuary manuals in the English language or (so far as our own reading extends) in any other.—London Practitioner, Feb. 1871. VtflNSLOW [FORBES), M.I)., D.C.L.,$c. ON OBSCURE DISEASES OF THE BRAIN AND DISORDERS OF THE MIND; their incipient Symptoms, Pathology, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Pro- phylaxis. Second American, from the third and revised English edition. In one handsome octavo volume of nearly 600 pages, cloth, $4 25. TEA [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 500 pages; cloth, $2 75. {Lately Published.) We know of no single work which contains, in bo i interesting phases of human society and progres: •mall a compass, so much illustrative of the strangest *~ operations of the human mind. Foot-notes give the authority for each statement, showing vast research The tulue.-s and breadth with which he has carried out his comparative survey of this repulsive held of history [Torture], are such as to preclude our doing and wonderful industry. We advise our confreres I justice to the work within our present limits. But to read this book and ponder its teaching; Med. Journal, Aug. 1870. As a work of curious iuquiry on certain outlying points of obsolete law, Superstition aud Force ia one of the must remarkable books we have met with. —London Athenaeum, Nov. 3, 18b'6. He has thrown a great deal of light upon what must be regarded as one of the most instructive as well as Chicago | here, as throughout the volume, there will be found | a wealth of illustration aud a critical grasp of the philosophical import of facts which will render Mi. Lea's labors of sterling value to the historical stu- dent.—London Saturday Review, Oct. S, 1870. As a book of ready reference on the subject, it is of the highest value.—Westminster Review, Oct. 1867, B Y THE SAME AUTHOR. (Late y Published.) STUDIES IN CHURCH HISTORY—THE RISE OF THE TEM- PORAL POWER—BENEFIT OF CLERGY—EXCOMMUNICATION. In one large ruyal 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, Dec. 1S70. Mr. Lea's latest work, Studies in Church History, fully sustains the promise of the hist. 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 ou Ancient Law likely to be regarded as dual. 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 Atlienceum, Jan. 7, 1871. Mr. Lea has done great honor to himself and this country by the admirable works he has written on ecclesiolugical and cognate subjects. We have already had occasion to commend his '' Superstition aud Force and his History of Sacerdotal Celibacy. The present volume is fully as admirable in its me- thod of dealing with topics and in the thoroughness— a quality so frequently lacking in American authors— with which they are investigated.—N. ¥. Journalof Psychol Medicine, July, 1870.