Obstetrics: the science and the art.

  • Meigs, Charles D. (Charles Delucena), 1792-1869.
Date:
1867
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    QROSS {SAMUEL D.), M.D., Professor of Surgery in tlie Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. A SYSTEM OF SURGERY: Pathological, Diagnostic, Therapeutic, and Operative. Illustrated by upwards of Thirteen Hundred Engravings. Fourth edition, carefully revised, and improved. In two large and beautifully printed royal octavo volumes of 2200 pages, strongly bound in leather, with raised bands. $15 00. The continued favor, shown by the exhaustion of successive large editions of this great work, proves that it has successfully supplied a want felt by American practitioners and students. Though but little over six years have elapsed since its first publication, it has already reached its fourth edition, while the care of the author in its revision and correction has kept it in a constantly im- proved shape. By the use of a close, though very legible type, an unusually large amount of matter is condensed in its pages, the two volumes containing as much as four or five ordinary octavos. This, combined with the most careful mechanical execution, and its very durable binding, renders it one of the cheapest works accessible to the profession. Every subject properly belonging to the domain of surgery is treated in detail, so that the student who possesses this work may be said to have in it a surgical library. It must long remam the most comprehensive work on this important part of medicine.—Boston Medical and Surgical Journcd, Marcli 23, 1S65. We have compared it with most of our standard works, such as those of Erichsen, Miller, Fergusson, Syme, and others, and we must, in justice to our author, award it the pre-eminence. As a work, com- plete io almost every detail, no matter how minute or trifling, and embracing every subject known in the principles and practice of surgery, we believe it stands without a rival. Dr. Gross, in his preface, re- marks my aim has been to embrace the whole do- main of surgery, and to allot to every subject its legitimate claim to notice; and, we assure our readers, he has kept his word. It is a work which we can most confidently recommend to our brethren, for its utility is becomitig the more evident the longer it is npon tlie shelves of our library.—Canada Med. Journal, September, 1865. The first two editions of Professor Gross' System of Surgery are so well known to the profession, and so highly prized, that it would be idle for us to speak in praise of this work.— Chicago Medical Journal, September, 1S65. Wp gladly indorse the favorable recommendation of the work, both as regards matter and .style, which we made when noticing its first appearance.—British and Foreign Medico-Ohirurgical Review, Oct. 1S65. The most complete work that has yet issued from the press on the science and practice of surgery.— London Lancet. This system of surgery is, we predict, de.?tined to take a commanding position in our surgical litera- ture, and be the crowning glory of the author's well earned fame. As an authority on general surgical subjects, this work is long to occupy a pre-eminent place, not only at home, but abroad. We have no hesitation in pronouncing it without a rival in our language, and equal to the best systems of surgery in any language.—N. Y. Med. Journal. Not only by far the best text-book on the subject, as a whole, within the reach of American students, but one which will be much more than ever likely to be resorted to and regarded as a high authority abroad.—Am. Jov.riial Med. Sciences, Jan. 1865. The work contains everything, minor and major, operative and diagnostic, including mensuration and examination, venereal diseases, and uterine manipu- lations aad operations. It is a complete Thesaurus of modern iiurgery, where the student and practi- jDY THE SAME, AUTHOR. A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE DISEASES, INJURIES, AND MALFORMATIONS OP THE URINARY BLADDER, THE PROSTATE GLAND, AND THE URETHRA. Second edition, revised and much enlarged, with one hundred and eighty-four illustrations. In one large and very handsome octavo volume, of over nine hundred pages, extra cloth. $4 00. tioner shall not seek in vain for what they desiie.— San Francisco Med. Press, Jan. 1S6.5. Open it where we may, we find sound practical in- formation conveyed in plain language. This book is no mere provincial or even national system of sur- gery, but a work which, while very largely indebted to the past, has a strong claim on the gratitude of the future of suz'gioal science.—Edinburgh Med. Journal, Jan. 1863. A glance at the work is sufficient to show that the author and publisher have spared no labor in making it the most complete System of Sui'gery ever pub- lished in any country.—St. Louis Med. and Surg-. Journal, April, 1S6.5. The third opportunity is now ofiered during our editorial life to review, or rather to indorse and re- commend this great American work on Surgery. Upon this last edition a great amount of labor has been expended, though to all others except the authoi the work was regarded in its previous editions as so full and complete as to be hardly capable of improve- ment. Every chapter has been revised; the text aug- mented by nearly two hundred pages, and a cou sidera.ble number of wood-cuts have been introduced. Many portions have been entirely re-written, and the additions made to the text are principally of a prac tical character. This comprehensive treatise upon surgery has undergone revisions and enlargements, keeping pace with the progress of the art and science of sui'gery, so that whoever is in possession of this work may consult its pages upon any topic embraced within the scope of its department, and rest satisfied, that its teaching is fully up to the present standard of surgical knowledge. It is also so conipreheii.sive that it may truthfully be said to embrace all that is actually known, that is really of any value in the diagnosis and treatment of surgical diseases and acci- dents. Wherever illustration will add clearness to the subject, or make better or more lasting impression, it is not wanting; in this respect the work is eminently- superior.—Buffalo Med. Journal, Dec. 1861. A system of surgery which we think unrivalled in our language, and which will indelibly associate his name with surgical scieuce. And what, in our opin- ion, enhances the value of the work is that, while tlie practising surgeon will find all that he requires in it, it is at the same time one of the most valuable trea- tises which ca-n be put into the hands of the student seeking to kno-gftthe principles and practice of this branch of the^rofession which he designs subse- quently to follow.—T/ie Brit. Am. Journ., Montreal.' Whoever will peruse the vast amount of valuable practical itifonriation it Contains will, we think, agree with us, that there is no work in the English lan- guage which can make any just pretensions to be its equal.—N. Y. Journal of Medicine. OY THE SAME AUTHOR. A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON FOREIGN BODIES IN THE AIR-PASSAGES. In one handsome octavo volume, extra cloth, with illustrations. pp. 468. $2 75.