A systematic treatise, historical, etiological, and practical, on the principal diseases of the interior valley of North America : as they appear in the Caucasian, African, Indian, and Esquimaux varieties of its population / By Daniel Drake, M. D. Ed. by S. Hanbury Smith and Francis G. Smith.
- Daniel Drake
- Date:
- 1854
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A systematic treatise, historical, etiological, and practical, on the principal diseases of the interior valley of North America : as they appear in the Caucasian, African, Indian, and Esquimaux varieties of its population / By Daniel Drake, M. D. Ed. by S. Hanbury Smith and Francis G. Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![A BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN SURGERY. SMITH'S OPERATIVE SURGERY; Illustrated by Eighty large Steel Plates, embracing nearly One Thousand Figures, MANY OF WHICH HAVE BEEN* DAGUERREOTYPED FROM NATURE, AND FINISHED IN THE FINEST STYLE OF STEEL ENGRAVINGS. The whole forming one large octavo volume. A SYSTEM OF OPERATIVE SURGERY; BASED CPON' THE PRACTICE OF SURGEONS IN THE UNITED STATES: AND COMPRISING A full Bibliographical Index of the most important American Surgical Works and Papers, AS WELL AS A HISTORY OF AMERICAN SURGERY, DURING A PERIOD OF MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED YE HtS. BY HENRY II. SMITH. M.D., Surgeon to St Joseph's Hospital; Assistant Lecturer on Demonstrative Surgery in the Unnst rsity of Pennsylvania. The Plates are presented either tinted or colored to life—and the work is in neat substantial binding. Price, tinted, $7 50—colored to life, $15. PUBLISHERS' NOTICE. In tendering to the profession an original work on American Surgery, the publishers have no expense, and they now present it as a specimen of an Illustrated Surgery which is adapted lo the wants of the practitioner and student. The laborious research evident in its | must recommend it to every practitioner who desires to be accurately informed of the acts of his countrymen,as well as of the most distinguished European surgeons, whilst the conciseness of the •ins of the operative proceedings makes it valuable as a text-book for the student As each operation is preceded by an account of the surgical anatomy of the region, thi lionet who has been long absent from the dissecting-rooms will be able from the text, in connection with the plates, to refresh his anatomical knowledge and obtain almost as accurate an idea of the surgical relations of the part as if he had a rei i. The spirit and accuracy of the illus- trations have gained for them the universal approbation of the medical jour: -1 on the publication of the different parts. A few of the notices of the volume, as recently expr. hereafter quoted. NOTICES OF THE PRESS. •• We arc sure the profession will welcome this truly national work in preference to being dependent upon reprints of foreign hooks.—.V. ill York Med. 0 izette. The beauty and extent of the illustrations would amply suffice to command attention j but its cha- racter as an essentially American work, built, as its title-page imports, upon a strictly national founda- t secure fur it a general welcome. A'obook has hitherto been written which has presented the Vroericin practitioner with a comprehensive view of the opinions, operative methods, and instruments who have given to American surgery a character id' its own. The I; I treasure D itself, and a monument of the compiler's industry which must win fur him the gratitude ind medical inquirer who can appreciate the vast amount of lahor which its preparation has re- »—Philadtlph i tiner. Dr. Smith's work, the most tplmtHd on Operative Surgery, it now before u Woe nnol outline of this very elaborate and complete work, butwi in saying that it is better adapted to the wants of the American practitioner than any w I: . ed it i tins »r any other country. no hesitation in recommending it in the wry highest ten partment of our profession.—Ohio Medical and Surgical Journal, Jan. ' •• We have sen nothing like u. and the whole ground lias been so thoroughly occupied by the per- severing author, that it will be i No one competent to ■ m: iii admitting th.it ll i.. keen pace with the progress of Operative Burger] on this continent.''—Bat/on Mod. and Surg. Journal, &o». I](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21026816_0992.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
