A manual of psychological medicine : containing the history, nosology, description, statistics, diagnosis, pathology, and treatment of insanity, with an appendix of cases / by John Charles Bucknill and by Daniel H. Tuke.

  • Bucknill, John Charles, 1817-1897.
Date:
1858
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    GROSS (SAMUEL D,), M. D., Professor of Surgery in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, to. Enlarged Edition. Now Heady. A SYSTEM OP SURGERY: Pathological, Diagnostic, Therapeutic, and Opera- tive. lUuslralecj by over Thirteen Hundked Engravings. Th rrl edition, much enlarged a„<l ^l^ihe;:^ ZT^' ,VJk1ZT, and.beauiifully pr.n.ed royal octavo vo.ulne., 'oc'^'^OO^Zt The exhaustion within 6ve years of two large editions of so elaborate and comDrehensive a work as lh>s i.* the best evidence that the author was not mistaken in his es?K of he want whu-h existed of a complete American System of Surgery, presenting Ihl soiree in all it^ necessary details and in all is branches. That he has 'iucceeHeH in .h„ „Mr,^J . f ^ is shown not only by the rapid sale of the work^bmalsrhT^hetery fev3 has been received by the organs of the profession in this country an<[ in Europe, and bvtheTactlha TitlriltLTo exSTs^;'^ ^''-^ ''^ of appreciatio^n not often be^stow^'d'o^n't^S thP^wn,).-fnr„'',h1 n' '''e '^'■'!ess thus bestowed upon his labors, and in revising the woik for a third edition he has spared no pains to render it worthy o( the favor with which it has been received. Every portion has been subjected to close examination and revisbn ■ aCdefi ceiicies apparent have been supplied, and the results of recent progress in he si ence'and m of surgery have been everywhere introduced; while the series of illuslrationVL b^fn .tiirfiir her ei.larged. rendering it one ot the most thoroughly illustrated works ever laid before the p ofe'ion To accommodate these very extensive additions, the form of the work has been aJtered fo a rovai octavo, 80 that notwithstanding the increase in the matter and value of the book its size wi I be 3d more conveuient than be ore. Every care has been taken in the printing to render thrt7pograph cal rrf.Pi'i!''confiden.'iy expected to pro/e a work in every wTworfhy^^ a place in even the most limited library of the practitioner or student. Has Dr. Gross satisfactorily fulfilled this object? A eaieful perusal of his volumes enables us to give an answer in tlieulfinnutive. Not only has he given to the reader an eluDorate and well-written account of his ovvn vast exjjerience, but he has not failed to embody in his pages the opinions and practice of su rgeons in th is and other countries of Eu rope. The result has t>een a workof sucli completeness, that it has nosuperiorin the systematic treatises on sur- gery which have emanated from English or Conti- nental authors. It has been justly objected that these have been far from complete in many essentiiil particulars, many of them hiivine been deficient in some of the most important points which should characterize such works Some ol them have been elaborate—too elaborate—with respect to certain diseases, while they have merely glanced at, or given an unsatisfactory account of, others equally important to the surgeon. Dr. Gross has avoided thiserror, and has produced the most complete work that has yet issued from the press on the science and practice of surgery. It is not, strictly speaking, a Dictionary of Surgery, but it gives to the reader all the information tliut he may require for his treatment of surgical diseases. Having said so much, it might apiiear superfluous to add another wurd ; but it is only due to Dr. Gross to state that he has embraced the opportunity of transferring to his pages a vast number of engravings from English and other au- thors, illustrative ot the pathology and treatment of snrgical diseases. To these are added several hun- dred original wood-cnts. The work altogether com- mends itself to the attention of British surgeons, from whom it cannot fail to meet with extensive patronage.—London Lancet, Sept. I, 1860. Of Dr. Gross's treatise on Surgery we can say no more than that it is the most elaborate and com- plete work on this branch of the healing art which has ever been published in any country. A sys- tematic work, it admits of no analytical review; but, did our space permit, we should gladly give some extracts from it, to enable our readers to judge of the classical style of the author, and the exhaust- ing way in which each subject is treated.—i)«47i» Quarterly Journal of Med. Science. The work is so superior to its predecessors in matter and extent, as well as in illustrations and style of publication, that we can honestly recom- mend it as the best work of the kind to be taken home by the young practitioner Am. Med. Joum. With pleasure we record the completion of this long-anticipeted work. The reputation which the author has for many years sustained, both as a sur- geon and as a writer, had prepared us to expect a treatise of great excellence and originality; but we BY TUB SAME AUTHOR. A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON FOREIGN BODIES IN THE AIR.PAP- SAGES. Jn one handsome octavo volume, extra cloth, with illustrations, pp. 468. 92 76. confess we were by no means prepared for the work which IS before us—the most complete treatise npon surgery ever published, either in this or any other country, and we might, perhaps, safely say, the most original. There is no subject belonging pro- perly to surgery which has not received from the author a due share of attention. Dr. Groes has sup- plied a want in surgical literature which has long been felt by practitioners; he has furnished us with a complete practical treatise upon surgery in all its departments As Americans, we are proud of the acliievement| as surgeons, we are most sincerely thankful to hiin for his extraordinary labors in our behalf.—iV. Y. Review and Buffalo Med Journal. The great merit of the work may be stated as follows. It presents surgical science as it exists at the latest date, with all its improvements ; and it discusses every topic In due proportion. No- thing IS omitted, nothing is in excess.—C/itcago Med. Examiner, May, IbGO. AVe cannot close this brief notice of Dr. Gross's most valuable and excellent compendium of Snr- geiy without again drawing attention to it, as we did in our notice of his first edition, as an evidence of the progress our American brethren are making towards establishing a literature of their own.— Dublin Quarterly Journal, Feb. 1863. It has been characterized by the representative press and by individual surgeons of the highest eminence, both at home and abroad, as the best systematic work on surgery ever published in the English languageand that the profession at large have given substantial proofs of their agree- ment to ihis verdict, is sufficiently evident from the fact that translations into European languages have been called for, and that so shortly after its first appearance, and at a time most unfavorable to literary enterprise, the Philadelphia publishers have found it pay to issue a second edition, much enlarged and carefully revised.—American Med. Monthly, May, 1862 We are much gratified to be able to announce a new edition of this Cyclopcedia of Surgery. Con- sidering the large size of the work and its expen- siveness, the extremely rapid sale and exhaustion of an entire edition, not only proves the value of the work, and its adaptation to the wants of the profession, hut it speaks well for the intelligence of American surgeons.—American Medical Times, May, 1862. A valuable and even necessary addition to every surgical library.—Chicago Med. Joum., Dec. 1859. A system of surgery which we think unrivalled in our language.—British Atnerican Journal.