A treatise on the principles and practice of medicine : designed for the use of practitioners and students of medicine / by Austin Flint.

  • Flint, Austin, 1812-1886.
Date:
1884
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    MBYNOLJyS, J. MUSSBLL, M. D., Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine in University College, London. A System of Medicine. With notes and additions by Henry Hartshorne, A. M., M. D., late Professor of Hygiene in the University of Pennsylvania. In three large and handsome octavo volumes, containing 3056 double-columned pages, with 317 illustra- tions. Price per volume, cloth, $5.00; sheep, $6.00; very handsome half Russia, raised bands, $6.50. Per set, cloth, $15; sheep, $18; half Russia, $19.50. Sold only by subscription. VoLXJiME I. Contains General Diseases and Diseases of the Nervous System. Volume II. Contains Diseases of Respiratory and Circulatory Systems. Volume III. Contains Diseases of the Digestive, Blood-Glandular, Urinary, Re- productive and Cutaneous Systems. Reynolds' System of Medicine, recently completed, has acquired, since the first ap- pearance of the first volume, the well-deserved reputation of being the work in which modern British medicine is presented in its fullest and most practical form. This could scarce be otherwise in view of the fact that it is the result of the collaboration of the lead- ing minds of the profession, each subject being treated by some gentleman who is regarded as its highest authority. All the leading schools in Great Britain have contributed their best men, in generous rivalry, to build up this monument of medical science. That a work conceived in such a spirit and carried out under such auspices should prove an indis- pensable treasury of facts and experience, suited to the daily wants of the practitioner, was inevitable; and the success which it has enjoyed in England, and the reputation which it has acquired on this side of the Atlantic, have sealed it with the approbation of the two pre-eminently practical nations. Its large size and high price having kept it beyond the reach of many practitioners in this country who desire to possess it, a demand has arisen for an edition at a price which shall render it accessible to all. To meet this demand the present edition has been under- taken. The five volumes and five thousand pages of the original have, by the use of a smaller type and double columns, been compressed into three volumes of over three thousand pages, clearly and handsomely printed, and ofiered at a price which renders it one of the cheapest works ever presented to the American profession. But not only is the American edition more convenient and lower priced than the Eng- lish ; it is also better and more complete. Some years having elapsed since the appearance of a portion of the work, additions were required to bring up the subjects to the existing con- dition of science. Some diseases, also, which are comparatively unimportant in England, require more elaborate treatment to adapt the articles devoted to them to the wants of the American physician; and there are points on which the received practice in this country diflPers from that adopted abroad. The supplying of these deficiencies has been undertaken by Henry Hartshorne, M. D., late Professor of Hygiene in the University oi' Pennsyl- vania, who has endeavored to render the work fully up to the day, and as useful to the American physician as it has proved to be to his English brethren. The number of illus- trations has also been largely increased, and no effort spared to render the typographical execution unexceptionable in every respect. There is no medical work which we have in times past more frequently and fully consulted when perplexed by doubts as to treatment, or by having unusual or apparently inexplicable symp- toms presented to us, than Reynolds' System of Medicine. It contains just that kind of informa- tion whicli the busy practitioner frequently finds himself in need of. In order that any deficiencies may be supplied, the publishers have committed the preparation of the book for the press to Dr. Henry Hartshorne, whose judicious notes distrib- uted throughout the volume afford abundant evi- dence of the thoroughness of the revision to which he has subjected it.—American Journal of the Med- ical Sciences, Jan. 1880. so concise and thorough, and withal so lucid and trustworthy. In that branch of medicine in which the rank and file of the profession are mainlv in- terested, viz., the practical part, therapeutics, Rey- nolds, without intending any invidious comparison, stands pre-eminent. The therapeutics of the Eng- lish correspond more closely than those of any other country with those of this country, and the American editor of Reynolds' has brought this branch up to the most advanced American stand- ard.—Michigan Medical News, Feb. 15, 1880. These three volumes are a whole library in and of themselves. As works of reference they are destined to be for many years regarded as the very highest authority on medical subjects. Lan- Certainly no work vrith which we are acquainted I guage is scarcely adequate to express the actual has ever been given to the English-reading profes- i value to general practitioners of such a system of sion which treats of so many diseases in a manner I medicine as this.—Cincinnati Lancet and Clinic. WATSOW, THOHAS, M. JD,, Late Phfisician in Ordinar;/ to the Queen. Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Physic. Delivered at King's College, London. A new American from the fifth English edition, revised and enlarged. Edited, with additions, and 190 illustrations, by Henry Hartshorne, A. M., M. D., late Professor of Hygiene in the University of Pennsylvania. In two large and handsome octavo volumes, containing 1840 pages. Cloth, $9.00 ; leather, $11.00. WOODBURY, FRANK, M. D., P/ii/sician to the Oerinan Hospital, Philadelphia; late Chief Assistant to the Medical Clinic in Jeffer- son College Hospital, etc. A Handbook of the Principles and Practice of Medicine. For the use of Students and Practitioners. In one royal 12mo. volume, with illustrations. Preparing. A CENTURY OF AMERICAN MEDICINE, 1776—1876. By Drs. E. H. Clarke, H. J. BiGELOw, S. D. Gross, T. G. Thomas, and J. S. Billings. In one 12mo. volume of 370 pages. Cloth, 82.25.