Report of the Committee on Medical Literature / by A.B. Palmer.

  • American Medical Association. Committee on Medical Literature
Date:
1858
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    with the subject, highly logical and discriminative minds, and each is expressed in a direct, clear, and forcible style, possessing the ring of the true coin. The opinion of Sir H. Holland is much more brief than that of any of the rest, and confined strictly to the medical aspects of the case. It aims directly at the strong points, and presents them in a clear light; but being confined in its effort to a more limited range, it has not that breadth of view, and attempts nothing of that elaboration of the subject, which mark most of the other papers. The whole volume evinces an amount of ability which reflects great credit upon the authors, and our national pride is gratified in the fact that when the productions of our countrymen are placed side by side with that of one of the very first intellects of Great Britain, on the same subject, the former do not suffer by the comparison. Although, in his paper. Sir Henry Holland does not enter upon a full discussion of all the questions involved, con- fining himself rather to an expression of his conclusions as the result of his examination, yet we have in this instance a degree of confirmation of the opinion, generally regarded as true, that when the American intellect is brought to bear upon a subject requiring, in its mastery, acuteness, discernment, and practical wisdom, it is not surpassed by the intellect of any other nation. An anniversary discourse upon the Medical Profession in Ancient Times, by Dr. John Watson, has been published in a volume of 222 pages, so thorough in its research, and so correct and forcible in its style, as to deserve a notice among the more valuable articles in our literature. Dr. Gunning S. Bedford, of New York, has published a volume of Clinical Lectures on the Diseases of Women and Children, which has rapidly passed through several editions, evincing the appreciation of the profession for works of that kind, combining, as clinical lec- tures should, the statement of elementary principles with practical details. Dr. Bedford’s work, while not specially elaborate or pro- found, nor presented in a style always concise or in proper taste, is nevertheless readable, practical, and useful. Dr. Henry Miller, of Louisville, Kentucky, has very recently presented the profession with a new edition of his Princi])les and Practice of Obstetrics, etc., so much revised and improved, that it
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