Dr J. Matthews Duncan's testimonials etc : first series.

Date:
1870
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Credit: Dr J. Matthews Duncan's testimonials etc : first series. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    From the Edinbvirgh Medical Journal. Both from the great labour, care, and skiU, expended in the work- ing out of details, and from the importance of the results, as either new or confirmatory of what was previously known or merely conjectured, the work is one of sterling value. It forms an original and important contribution, not only to obstetric science, but also to the department of political economy which treats of population, and to the principles of life insurance. Within our limits it is not possible to enter fully into all the topics discussed. No justice can be done to the inquiries without a study of the book itself. . . . Within the limits as- signed to us we have been able to give only a very inadequate idea of the rich mine of fact and inference which this volume contains, yet enough has been said to justify and explain our recommendation of it as a work replete with original and valuable information, the study of which is indispensable to all who are interested in the subjects of which it treats, or who are engaged in similar inquiries. From the Medical Times and Gazette. Freely as we liave extracted from the stores contained in this voliune, we can yet assure our readers that the mine is far from exhausted: we would strongly urge them to read it ctirefully for themselves. To Dr. Duncan, who is well known as one of the most distinguished Scottish physicians of the present day, we tender, in the name of this Journal, the thanks of the profession for having presented us with a standard work, in which the results of former inquiries in the same departments of knowledge are judiciously blended vdth a large mass of original matter. From the Scotsman. The questions treated of in the volume before us not only affect the health and happiness of individuals and families, but exercise an important influence on the prosperity of states. Dr. Dimcan has conducted his researches in a most complete and comprehensive maimer, and has furnished us -with a contribution to vital statistics most valuable, both from its elucidation of ascertained facts and from the gaps and uncertainties in our knowledge which it has shown to exist. It supplies us at once with an epitome of aU that is kno^vn on the subject of which it treats, and ])laces us on a linn basis from which to advance to new accpiisitions.