A treatise on human physiology : designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine / by John C. Dalton, Jr.

  • John Call Dalton
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1866
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    jyUNGLISON {ROBLEF), M.D., Proffissnr of Institutes of Medicine in Jefferson Medical Oollerj., Philadelxihia. MEDICAL LEXICON; A Dictionary op Medical Science: Con- taining a concise explanation of the va.rious Subjects and Terms of Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Hygiene, Therapeutics, Pharmacology, Pharmacy, Surgery, Obstetrics, Medical Jurisprudence, and Dentistry. Notices of Climate and of Mineral Waters; Formulae for Officinal, Empirical, and Dietetic Preparations; with the Accentuation and Etymolowy of the Terms, and the French and other Synonyraes; so as to constitute a French as well as English Medical Lexicon. Thoroughly Revised, and very greatly Modified and Augmented. In one very large and handsome royal octavo volume of 104S double-coluinned page.!, in small type; strongly done up in extra cloth, $6 00 ; leather, rai.sed bands, $6 75. The object of the author from the outset has not been to make the work a mere lexicon or dictionary of terms, but to aiford, under each, a condensed view of its various medical relations, and thus to render the work an epitome of the existing condition of medical science. Startin with this view, the immense demand which has existed for the work has enabled him, in repeated revisions, to augment its completeness and usefulness, until at length it has attained the position of a recognized and standard authority wherever the language is spoken. The mechanical exe- cution of this edition will be found greatly superior to that of previous impressions. By enlarging the size of the volume to a royal octavo, and by the employment of a small but clear type, on extra fine paper, the additions have been incorporated without materially increasing the bulk of the volume, and the matter of two or three ordinary octavos has been compressed into the space of one not unhandy for consultation and reference. It is undoubtedly the most complete and useful It would be a work of supererogation to bestow a word of praise upou this Lexicon. We can only wonder at the labor expended, for whenever we refer to its pages for information we are seldom disap- pointed in finding all we desire, whether it be in ac- centuation, etymology, or defluition of terms.—New York Medical Journal, November, 186.5. * It would be mere waste of words in us to express our admiration of a work which is so universally and deservedly appreciated. The most admirable work of its kind in the English language. As a book of reference it is invaluable to the medical practi- tioner, and in every instance that we have turned over its pages for informatlun we have been charmed by the clearness of language and the accuracy of detail with which eacli ahoauds- We can most cor- dialiy and confidently cummeud it to our readers.— Glasgow Medical Journal, January, lS6ti. A work to which there is no equal in the English language.—Edinburgh Medical Journal. It is something more than a dictionary, and some- thing less than an eucyclopjedia. This edition of the well-known work is a great improvement on its pre- decessors. The book is one of the very few of which it may be said with truth that every medical mau should possess it.—London Medical Times, Aug. 26, lS6.i. Few works of the class exhibit a grander monument of patient research and of scientific lore. The extent of the sale of this lexicon is sufficient to testify to its Tiefnlaess, and to the great service conferred by Dr. Eobley DungUson on the profession, and indeed on other.s, by its issue.—London Lancet, May 1.3, 186.5. The old edition, wiiich is now superseded by the new, has be'n univer.-'aUy looked upon by tlie medi- cal profession as a work of immf-u.se research and great value. The new has increased usefulness; for medicine, in all its branches, has been making such progress that many new terms and subjects iiave re- cently beea introduced: all of which maybe found fully defined in the present edition. We kuow of no oiher dictionary in the English language that can bear a comparison with it in point of completeness of sabjects and accuracy of statement.—i\^. Y. Drug- gists'' Oircvlar, 186.'i. For inany years Dunglison's Dictionary has been the standard book of reference with most practition- ers in thiscountiy, and we can certainly commend medical dictiDuary hitherto published in this country. —Chicago Med. Examiner, February, l,'r6.5. What we take to be decidedly the best medical dic- tionary in the English language. The present edition is brought fully up to the advanced state of science. For many a long year Duuglison has been at our elbow, a constant 'companion and friend, and we greet him in his replenished and improved form with especial satisfaction.—Paeijio Med. and Surg. Jov/r- nal, June 27, 1865. Tins is, perhaps, the book of all others which the physician or surgeon should have on his shelves. It is more needed at the present day than a few years back.—Canada Med. Journal, July, 1865. ' It deservedly stands at the head, and cannot be surpassed in excellence.—Buffalo Med, and Surg. Joarnal, April, 1865. We can sincerely commend Dr. Dunglison's work as most thorough, scientific, and accurate. We have tested it by searching its pages for new terms, which have abounded so much of late in medical nomen- clature, and our search has been successful in every instance. We have been particular!}' struck with the fulness of the synonymy and the accuracy of the de- rivatioQ of words. It is as necessary a work to every enlightened physician as Worcester's English Dic- tionary is to every one who would keep up his know- ledge of the English tongue to the standard of the present day. It is, to our mind, the most complete work of the kind with which we are acquainted.— Boston Med. and Surg. Journal, June 22, 1865. We are free to confess that we know of no medical dictionary more complete; no one better, if so well adapted for the u.se of the student; no one that may be consulted with more satisfaction by the medical practitioner.—Am. Jour. Med. Sciences, April, 1865. The value of the present edition has been greatly enhanced by the introduction of new subjects and terms, and a more complete etymology and accentua- tion, which renders the work not ouly satisfactory and desirable, but indispensable to the physician.— Chicago Med. Journal, April, 186.5. No intelligent member of the profession can or will be without it.—St. Louis Med. and Surg. Journal, April, 1835. It has the rare merit that it certainly has no rival this work to the renewed confidence and regard of I in the English langua.'<e for accuracy and extent of our readers.—Cincinnati Lancet, April, 186.5. I reference-s.—London Medical Gazette. JJODLYN [RICHARD D.), M. D. A DICTIOXARY OF THE TERMR USED IN MEDICINE AND TJfE COLLATERAL SCIt'LMOES. A now American edition, revised, with numerous a/ldition.a, by Lsaac IIavk, M.D., Editor of the American Journal of the Medical Sciencfc.s. In one large royal 12mo. voiaine of over 500 double-columned pages; extra cloth, -tl 50; leather, $2 00, It io the be»t book of definitionH we have, and ought alwayn to be npon the student's t-A\>]n.—Southern 3Itd. and Surg. Journal.