On the theory and practice of midwifery / By Fleetwood Churchill. With notes and additions by D. Francis Condie.
- Fleetwood Churchill
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- 1859 [©1851]
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Credit: On the theory and practice of midwifery / By Fleetwood Churchill. With notes and additions by D. Francis Condie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![New and much enlarged edition—(Now Ready.) WILSON (ERASMUS), F. R. S., A SYSTEM OF HUMAN ANATOMY, General and Special. A new and re- vised American, from the last and enlarged Engli:-h Edition. Edited by W. II. Gobrecht, M. D., Professor of Anatomy in the Philadelphia Medical College, fcc. Illustrated with three hundred and ninety-seven engravings on wood. In one large and exquisitely printed octavo volun over 60U large pages; leather. $3 25. The publishers trust that the well earned reputation so long enjoyed by this work will be more than maintained by the present edition. Besides a very thorough revision by the author, it has been most carefully examined by the editor, and the efforts of both have been directed to introducing everything which increased experience in its u^e has suggested as desirable to render it a complete text-book for those seeking to obtain or to renew an acquaintance with Human Anatomy. The amount of additions which it has thus received may be estimated from the iact that thepre>ent edition contains over one-fourth more matter than the last, rendering a smaller type and an enlarged page requisite to keep the volume within a convenient size. The author has not only thus added largely to the work, but he has also made alterations throughout, wherever there appeared the opportunity of improving the arrangement or style, so as to present every fact in i's most appro- priate maimer, and to render the whole as clear and intelligible as possible. The editor has exercised the utmost caution to obtain entire accuracy in the text, and has largely increased the number of illustrations, of which there are about one hundred and fifty more in this edition than in the last, thus bringing distinctly before the eye of the student everything of interest or importance. The publishers have felt that neither care nor expense should be spared to render the external finish of the volume worthy oi the universal favor with which it has been received by the American profession, and they have endeavored consequently to produce in its mechanical execution an im- provement corresponding with that which the text has enjoyed, it will therefore be found one of the handsomest specimens of typography as yet produced in this country, and in all respects suited to the office table of the practitioner, notwithstanding the exceedingly low price at which it has been placed. A few notices of former editions are subjoined. This is probably the prettiest medical book ever ' evident. Let students, by all means examine tne published, and we believe that its intrinsic merits , claims of this work en their notice, before they pur- are in keeping with its exterior advantages, having i chase a text-book of the vitally important science examined it sufficiently to satisfy aa that it may be which this volume so fully and easily unfuiub. recommended to the student as no less distinguished Lancet. by its accuracy and clearness of description than by T its tvpographical elegance. The wood-cuts are ex- | lx\ every respect, this work, as an anatomical anisite.—British and Foreign Medical Review. ! Smde fo* the student who seeks to obtain know An elegant edition of one of the most useful and ! ledge which he has not yet acquired, and for tne practitioner who wishes to keep up that which he accurate systems of anatomical science which has ^d* gradua]Iy fading from his imm] ra;ri ^ strations are warm°st and most decided praise.-Med. Gazette We regard it as the best system now extant for students.—Western Lancet. really beautiful. In its style the work is extremely concise and intelligible. No one can possibly take up this volume without being struck with the great beauty of its mechanical execution, and the clear- ness of the descriptions which it contains is equally It therefore receives our highest commendar; >n. Southern Med. and Surg. Journal. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. {Just Issued.) ON DISEASES OF THE SKIN. Fourth and enlarged American, from the last and improved London edition. In one large octavo volume, of 650 pages, extra cloth, |2 75. The writings of Wilson, upon diseases of the skin, j a place in this volume, which, without a doubt, will are by fax the most scientific and practical that | for a very long period, be acknowledged as the chief have ever been presented to the medical world on i standard work on dermatology. The principles of this subject. The present edition isagreatimprove- i an enlightened and rational therapeia are introduced ment on all its predecessors. To dwell upon all the ! on every appropriate occasion. The general prac- great merits and high claims of tiie work before us, titioner and surgeon who, peradventure, may have ■seriatim, would indeed be an agreeable service; it , for years regarded cutaneous maladies as scarcely would be a mental homage which we could freely worthy thefr attention, because, foreooth, thev are offer, but we should thus occupy an undue amount not fatal in their tendency ; or who, if thej of space in this Journal. We will, however, look attempted their cure, have followed the blind <*uid- at some of the more salient points with which it ance of empiricism, will almost assuredly be roused abounds, and which make itincomparauiy superior in to a new and becoming interest in this department excellence toall other treatises on the subject of der- i of practice, through the inspiring agency of Luis matology. ISo mere speculative views are allowed [ book.—Am. Jour. Med. Science, Oct. 1857. ALSO, NOW READY, A SERIES OF PLATES ILLUSTRATING WILSON ON DISEASES OF THE SKIN; consisting of nineteen beautifully executed plates, of which twelve are exquisitely colored, presenting the Normal Anatomy and Pathology of the Skin, and containing accurate re- presentations of about one hundred varieties of disease, most of them the size of nature Price in cloth $4 25. In beauty of drawing and accuracy and finish of coloring these plates will be found equal to anything of the kind as yet issued in this country. One of the best specimens of colored lithographic i We have alreadv expressed our high appreciation illustrations that have ever been published in this J of Mr. Wilson's t'reatise on Diseases of tiie ^kui. country. The representations of diseases of the | The plates are comprised in a separate volume! skin, even to the most minute shade of coloring, are ; which we counsel all those who possess the text to remarkably accurate, giving the student or practi- ; purchase. It is a beautiful specimen of color print- tioner a very correct idea of the disease he is study- ■ ing, and the representations ot the various forms o( ing. We know of no work so well adapted to the ' skin disease are as faithful as is possible in plates wants of the general practitioner as Wilson's, with | of the size.—Boston . urg, Journal. April the accompanying plates. — Med. and Surg. Re- t B, 1858. porter, May, 1856.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2103011x_0529.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
