On diseases of the spine and of the nerves / by Charles Bland Radcliffe, John Netten Radcliffe, J. Warburton Begbie, Francis Edmund Ainstie, and John Russell Reynolds.

Date:
1871
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Credit: On diseases of the spine and of the nerves / by Charles Bland Radcliffe, John Netten Radcliffe, J. Warburton Begbie, Francis Edmund Ainstie, and John Russell Reynolds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lyELLS (J. SOELBERG), ' ' Professor of Ophthalmology in King's College JTospifnl, <tc. A TREATISE ON DISEASES OP THE EYE. First American Edition, with additions; illustrated with 21(5 engravings on wood, and sis colored plates. Together with selections from the Test-types of Jaeger and Snellen. In one large and very handsome octavo volume of about 760 pages : extra cioth, $5 00 ; leather, $6 00. {Jiist Ready.) A work has long been wanting which should represent adequately and completely the present aspect of British Ophthalmology, and this want it has been the aim of Mr. Wells to supply. The favorable reception of his volume by the medical press is a guarantee that he has succeeded in his undertaking, and in reproducing the work in this country every effort has been made to render it in every way suited to the wants of the American practitioner. Such additions as seemed desirable have been introduced by the editor. Dr. I. Minis Hays, and the number of illustrations has been more than doubled. The importance of test-types as an aid to diagnosis is so universally acknowledged at the present day that it seemed essential to the completeness of the work that they should be added, and as the author recommends the use of those both of Jaeger and of Snellen for different purposes, selections have been made from each, so that the practitioner may have at command all the assistance necessary. The work is thus presented as in every way fitted to merit the confidence of the American profession. His chapters are eminently readable. His style is dear and flowing. He can be short without over-con- densing, and accurate without hair splitting. These merits appear in a remarkable degree when he comes to treat of the more abstruse departments of his sub- ject, and contrast favorably with the laboi-ed obscurity which mars the writings of some greater authorities in the same line. We congratulate Mr. Wells upon the success with which he has fulfilled his ideal, as represented in the preface, in producing an English treatise on the diseases of the eye, which should embrace the modern doctrines and praclieo of the British and Foreign Schools of Ophthalmology. The new school of Ophthalmology may also be congratu- lated in having found an exponent who is neither a bigoted partisan of everything new, nor a scoti'er at everything old.—Glasgow Med. Journal, May, 1869. T OYNBEE {JOSEPH), E.R.S., Aural Surgeon to and Lecturer on Surgery at St. Mary's Hospital. THE DISEASES OF THE EAR: their Nature, Diagnosis, and Treat- ment. With one hundred engravings on wood. Second American edition. In one very handsomely printed octavo volume of 440 pages; extra cloth, $4. The appearance of a volume of Mr. Toynbee's, there- fore, in which the subject of aural disease is treated in the most scientific manner, and our knowledge in respect to it placed fully on a par with that which we possess respecting most other organs of the body, is a matter for sincere congrattilation. We may rea- sonably hope that henceforth the subject of this trea- tise will cease to be among the opprobria of medical science.—London Medical Review. The work, as was stated at the outset o* our notice, is a model of its kind, and every page and paragraph of it are worthy of the most thorough study. Con- sidered all in all—as an original work, well written, philosophically elaborated, and happily illustrated with cases and drawings—it is by far the ablest mo- nograph that has ever appeared on the anatomy and diseases of the ear, and one of the most valuable con- tributions to the art and science of surgery in the nineteenth century.—If. Am. Med.-C/iirurg. Review. JA URENCE [JOHN Z.), F. R. G. S., Editor of the Ophthalmic Review, &c. A HANDY-BOOK OF OPHTHALMIC SURGERY, for the use of Practitioners. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. With numerous illustrations. In one very handsome octavo volume, extra cloth, $3 00. {Now Ready.) No book on ophthalmic surgery was more needed. Designed, as it is, for the wants of the busy practi- tioner, it is the neplus ultra, of perfection. It epito- mizes all the diseases incidental to the eye in a clear afud masterly manner, not only enabling the practi- tioner readily to diagnose each variety of disease, but affording him the more important assistance of proper treatment. Altogether this is a work which ought certainly to be in the hands of every general practi- tiodier.—Dublin Med. Press and Circular, Sept. 12, '66. We cordially recommend this book to the notice of our readers, as containing an excellent outline of modern ophthalmic surgery.—British Med. Journal, October 13, 1866. Not only, as its modest title suggests, a Handy- Book of Ophthalmic Surgery, but an excellent and well-digested risxLnie of all that is of practical value in the specialty.—New York 3Iedieal Journal, No- vember, 1866. This object the authors have accomplished in a highly satisfactory manner, and we know no work we can more highly recommend to the busy practi- tioner who wishes to make himself acquainted with the recent improvements in ophthalmic science. Such a work as this was much wanted at this time, and this want Messrs. Laurence and Moon have now well supplied.—Am,. Journal Med. Sciences, Jan. 1867. TAWSON [GEORGE], F. R. C. S., Engl, -*-' Assistant Surgeon to the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorjields, &c. INJURIES OF THE EYE, ORBIT, AND EYELIDS: their Imme- diate and Remote Effects. With about one hundred illustrations. In one very hand- some octavo volume, extra cloth, $3 60. {Now Ready.) This work will be fou,nd eminently fitted for the general practitioner. In cases of functional o* structural diseases of the eye, the physician who has not made ophthalmic surgery a special study can, in most instances, refer a patient to some competent practitioner. Cases of injury, however, supervene suddenly and usually require prompt assistance, and a work devoted espe- cially to them cannot but prove essentially useful to those who may at any moment be called upon to treat such accidents. The present volume, as the work of a gentleman of large experience, may be considered as eminently worthy of confidence for reference in all such emergencies. It is an admirable practical book in the highest and best sense of the phrase.—London Medical Times «nd Gazette, Mfcy 18, 1867.