The medical student, or, Aids to the study of medicine : including a glossary of the terms of the science, and of the mode of prescribing, bibliographical notices of medical works, the regulations of different medical colleges of the union, &c. &c / by Robley Dunglison.

  • Dunglison, Robley, 1798-1869.
Date:
1837
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    DUNGLISON'S PHYSIOLOGY. CAREY, LEA & BLANCHARD have lately published a second edition of Human Physiology, illustrated by numerous engravings. By Robley Dungli- son, M. D., Professor of Therapeutics, Materia Medica, Hygiene, and Medical Jurisprudence in the University of Maryland, &c. &c. (Now Professor of the Institutes of Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.) In two vols. 8vo. It is the most complete and satisfactory system of Physiology in the English language. It will add to the already higli reputation of the author. We feel warranted in recommending the work to the student of physiology as being one of the very best text books with which we are acquainted; while we are persuaded its very superior merits will command for it a place in every medical library.— American Journal of the Medical Sciences. A work, like this, so abounding in important facts, so correct in its princi- ples, and so free from errors arising from prejudice to favourite opinions, will be cordially received and extensively consulted by the profession, and by all who are desirous of a knowledge of the functions of the human body; and those who are the best qualified to judge of its merits, will pronounce it the best work of the kind in the English language.—Silliman. This is a work of no common standing; it is characterised by much learning and research, contains a vast amount of important matter, and is written by a scholar and a man of taste. We are inclined to think that it will be placed by general consent at the head of the systems of Physiology, now extant in the English language. Nor are we prepared to say that, all things considered, its superior exists in any language. It has a character of its own, and is a true Anglo-American production, unsophisticated by gairish foreignism.—Transylva- nia Journal. ELEMENTS OF HYGIENE. On the Influence of Atmosphere and Locality; Change of Air and Climate, Sea- sons, Food, Clothing, Bathing, Exercise, Sleep, Corporeal and Intellectual Pur- suits, etc. on Human Health, constituting Elements of Hygiene. By Robley Dunglison, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica, Therapeutics, Hygiene, and Medical Jurisprudence in the University of Maryland, etc. 1 vol. octavo. On many points connected with statistics and climate, we might transfer from Dr. Dunglison's pages highly interesting observations and facts, and he generally exercises a very sound judgment where discordant opinions have existed among previous writers. The Hygienic cautions, scattered through his work, arc useful and judicious, and we do not know so complete a text-book of Hygiene as that which he has prepared. We have already spoken in commendation of the dietetic portion of his work, and have only to add, that the chapters on Clothino-, Bathing, and Exercise, contain numerous particulars interesting to the medical practitioner and to the public. Every subject seems well considered; nothing is neglected, and nothing is pushed to extravagance.—The British and Foreign Review, No. 2. April, 1836. We can recommend this work to the public with the utmost confidence, as one of the best treatises on the subject we possess.—American Journal of the Medical Sciences, February, 1835. It is a book, therefore, interesting to the general reader; and, however popu- lar and useful may have been the unrivalled work of Dr. Dewees on Children, we hazard little in predicting that this work will be still more extensively sought and read.—Boston Medical Magazine. Professor Dunglison has displayed much judgment and ability in selecting and digesting his materials; and has furnished a better exposition of the elements of Hygiene than can be any where found in the English language.—North Ame- rican Archives for Medical and Surgical Science, for March, 1835. The extent and variety of the work are sufficient to embrace whatever is most material, as well to the health of communities as of individuals: and all the topics,