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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    T ^AYLOR [ALFRED S.), 31.B., Lecturer on Med. Juri-ip. and Chemisitry in Gny's IJnspital. MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE. Fifth American, from the seventh improved and enlarged London edition. With Notes and lieferences to American Decisions, by Edward Hartshorne, M.D. In one large octavo volume of over 700 pages, extra cloth. $4 00. We have the more pleasure in expressing our heariy coincidence with the general verdjct of the two profession.s. medical and legal, in favor of this admii-able treatise, which, like the one just men- tioufd, although printed iuthe manual form, is really the most elaborate work on the subject that our lite- rature possesses, and will unquestionably hold its ground as the standard of medical jurisprudence in this country so long as it shall be kept by its author so completely up to the mark as it now is.—TlieBrit- ish and Foreign Medico-Ohirv.rgical Review/:. Without materially increasing the bulk of this most admirable wurk, we have a new edition brought close up to the present day, with old errors removed and very many new discoveries added. This is a work well worthy the high position of its author, aud a fair representative and exponent of the state of foren- sic medicine in this country, second to none, we ven- ture to say, in the woi'ld. To attain this every chapter has undergone a close revision, and many new cases and observations have been added; at the same time no extensive changes have been made because un- called for. It would be a waste of time to attempt any description of this work, which must have found its way to the bookshelf of almost every practitioner Taylor's Medical Jurisprudence has been the text- book in our colleges for years, and the present edi- tion, with the valuable additions made by the Ameri- can editor, rendiu' it (he most standard work of the day, on the peculiar province of medicine on whicli it treats. The American editor, Ur. Hartshorne, has done his duty to the text, and, upim the whole, we cannot but consider this volume the best and richest treatise on medical jurisprudence in our language.— Brit. Am. Med. Journal. The presentation to the profession of a new and im- proved edition of this well-known and de-ervedly popular work cannot be looked upon otherwise than as a subject of congratulation. The book has many merits. It is brief, it is comprehensive; it treats in a clear aud satisfactory manner upon a large number of medico-legal subjects, the most interesting and im- portant that can he presented to the attention of the physician, and the completeness of the work Is en- hanced, especially to the American reader, by the appropriate though not vei'y copious notes and re- ferences to recent American cases, by Dr. Hartshorne. —Chicago Med. Jour. We need hardly say that this work is quite beyond the pale of criticism, and that all we have to do is to | in the kingdom ; those who have it not should pos- couLrratulate the profession on having its contents sess it forthwith. There is no more useful work of again laid before them, in 1861, in a thoroughly re- ! reference on this or any subject.—London MedUxil vised condition.—Briti-i-h Med. Journal. \ Review. ■DY THE SAME AUTHOR. OX POISONS, IN RELATION TO MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE AND MEDICINE. Second American, from a second and revised London edition. In one large octavo volume of 766 pages, extra cloth. $5 00. TYINSLOW [FORBES], M.D., D. G.L., Sfc. 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 page.?, extra cloth. $4 25. I^Jiist Issued.) SUMMARY OF CONTENTS. Chapter I. Introduction—II. Morbid Phenomena of Intelligence—III. Premonitory Symp- toms of Insanity—IV. Confessions of Patients after Ptecovery—V. State of the Mind during Piecovery—VI. Anomalous and Masked Affections of the Mind—VII. Stage of Consciousness— VIII. Stage of Exaltfition—IX. Stage of Mental Depression—X. Stage of Aberration—XI. Im- pjairment of Mind—XII. Morbid Phenomena of Attention—XIII. Morbid Phenomena of Memory —XIV. Acute Disorders of Memory—XV. Chronic Affections of Memory—XVI. Perversion and Exaltation of Memory—XVII. Psychology and Pathology of Memory—XVIII. Morbid Pheno- mena of Motion—XIX. Morbid Phenomena of Speech—XX. Morbid Phenomena of Sensation— XXI. Morbid Phenomena of the Special Senses—XXII. Morbid Phenomena of Vision, Hearing, Tiiste, Touch, and Smell—XXIII. Morbid Phenomena of Sleep and Dreaming—XXIV. Morbid Phenomena of Organic and Nutritive Life—XXV. General Principles of Pathology, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prophylaxis. Of the merits of Dr. Winslow's treatise the profes- t-ioD has snflicicntly judged. Jt has taken its place in the front rank of the works upon the special depart- ment uf practical mfdicine to wliich it per aius.— Ciw.innoli Journal (if Medicine, March, 1800. It JH an interesting volume that will amply repay for a careful perusal by all intelligent rejfters — Chicago Med E.ca'ininer, Feb. 18G0. A work which, like the present, will largely aid the practitioner in recognizing and arresting tlie first in:(idioiis advances of cerebral and mental disease, is one of immense practical value, aud demands earnest attention aud diligent study on the part of all who have embraced the medical profession, and have tliereby undertaken responsibilities in which the ■wellare and happiness of individuals and families are largely involved. We shall therefore close this brief and necessarily very imperfect notice of Dr. Wiuslow's great and classical work by exprenBiug our conviction that it is long since so important and beautifully written a volume has issued from the British medical press. The details of the maua,ge- raent of confirmed cases of insanity more nearly in- terest those who have made mental diseases their special study; but Dr. Winslow's masterly exposi- tion of the early symptoms, and his grapliic descrip- tions of the insidions advances of incipient insanity, togeiher with his judicious observations on the treat- ment of disorders of the mind, should, we repeat, be carefully studied by all who have undertaken the respijusibiUties of medical practice.—Dabtin Medical Pre.iH. It is (he most interesting as well as valuable book that we have seen for a long time. It is truly fasci- nating—Am. Jour. Med. Hcienaen. Dr. Winslow's work will undoubtedly occupy an unii<iie position in the medico-psycliol.pgjcal litera- ture uf liiift country.—London Med. Jievcew.