Medical works.

  • James MacLehose & Sons.
Date:
[1895]
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    Medical Works By Professor MACEWEN, M.D., F.R.S., Glasgow. Pyogenic Infective Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord. By William Macewen, M.D., LL.D., Regius Professor of Surgery in the University of Glasgow. Illus- trated. Demy 8vo. 18s. net. Atlas of Head Sections. 53 Engraved Copper Plates of Frozen Sections of the Head, with 53 Key Plates with Detailed Descriptions and Illustrative Text. By Professor Macewen, M.D. Demy 4to. 70s. net. “ These volumes deal with a department of surgical practice that has undergone a remarkable development within quite recent times, and the author is distinguished by the extent and brilliant success of his experience in it. Naturally anything he pub- lishes on this subject commands attention, and, after having read the book (on the Brain and Spinal Cord) most attentively, we assure our readers that it more than fulfils expectations, and is in every part worthy of the great reputation of its author. The Atlas is also unique in its excellence. The surgeon needs to know the relation to the cranial surface of every structure within the skull. With the help of these plates such knowledge is put within his reach at once. Dr. Macewen has placed all surgeons under a great debt of obligation in preparing these sections. These volumes are of extreme value and importance, and will be gladly welcomed by all surgeons who are interested in this department of surgery. Both as a record of successful work and as written and pictorial instruction to other workers they have rarely been surpassed.”—Lancet. “Those who read this book (on the Brain and Spinal Cord) will see how marvel- lously successful results have been obtained by accurate diagnosis and localization, and by thorough antiseptic methods in operating on such cases. . . . It is hardly possible to imagine a more admirable text-book, from cover to cover, or a more difficult and important field of surgery. We congratulate Professor Macewen on his work, and his pupils and his University on the teacher they have been so fortunate to secure. “The Atlas of Head Sections, in various directions, is a valuable and important addition to the series of plates from frozen subjects. By this means the real relation of the different parts of the brain to the surface and to each other are given.” Edinburgh Medical Journal. “The work before us (on the Brain and Spinal Cord) with the magnificent Atlas which accompanies it, is a record of work of which the author and British Surgery may well feel proud. . . . The text is profusely illustrated with original draw- ings, wood engravings, photogravures, and there is a copious and well arranged Index and table of Contents. Detailed records of sixty-five cases are given, many of them veritable marvels of surgical achievement. Altogether^die^voHMs^mm^Wiich fail to mark an epoch in brain surgery.”—Dublin Journal of Medical Science. “ The most striking character of the whole of the work is its extreme precision, replacing the somewhat haphazard manner in which surgery has generally been applied to the complications of middle-ear disease. Dr. Macewen has, in fact, suc- ceeded in making it impossible for a surgeon to deal satisfactorily with such cases without having first carefully studied this book.—Medical Chronicle.