Encyclopaedia of the medical sciences ... forming a portion of the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana.

Date:
1847
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    ADVERTISEMENT BY THE PUBLISHERS. [Extracted from the General Preface to the Encyclopedia Metropolitana, written by the Rev. Henr? John Rose, B.D., late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.] Of the Anatomy, by J. F. South, Esq., Surgeon of St. Thomas's Hospital, and F. Le Gros Clark, Esq., and the Materia Medica, by Dr. G. Johnson, it .may be said that their names are sufficient pledge that these Treatises are of first-rate character. The Treatise on Medicine, by Dr. Robert Williams, of St. Thomas's Hospital, is an attempt to give a more philosophical view of the classification of disease than has hitherto been taken in any works of modern date. The work of Dr. Williams on Morbid Poisons, and his essays read before the College of Physicians, have obtained him the highest reputation among the members of his own profession. No person can read his Treatise without a deep interest; and the Editor is willing to believe that it will add to the fame of its author, and invest him with the credit of having triumphed over obstacles hitherto thought an insuperable bar to any philosophical arrangement of disease. To W. Bowman, Esq., the Encyclopaedia is indebted for an able outline of Surgical Practice. His qualifications for treating that subject are amply testified by his long experi- ence as Demonstrator at King's College, London, and by his publication on Physiology in conjunction with Dr. Todd. This volume, the* contents of which will, it is hoped, prove interesting to all classes of readers, is closed by a comprehensive Treatise on Veterinary Art, by W. C. Spooner, Esq. The Medical Treatises are associated in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana with those on Botany and Zoology ; but the Publishers have resolved to issue them separately, in order to supply the student of medicine, at a moderate price, with a work which they have been assured, by a high authority, is— A very valuable compendium of Medical Doctrine and Practice, in which the various subjects treated of are brought up to the level of the present day. John J. Griffin & Co., Publishers. London, November, 1847.
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