A practical treatise on the diseases peculiar to women : illustrated by cases, derived from hospital and private practice / by Samuel Ashwell.

  • Ashwell, Samuel, 1798-1857.
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1848
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    MILLER (JAMES), F. R. S. E., Professor of Surgery in the University of Edinburgh. ice. PRINCIPLES OF SURGERY. Third American, from the second and revised Edinburgh edition. Revised, with Additions, by F. W. Sargent, M. D., author of Minor Sur- gery. vi'c. In one large and very beautiful volume, of seven hundred and fifty-two pages, with two hundred and forty exquisite illustrations on wood. This edition is far superior, both in the abundance ' guage. This opinion, deliberately formed after a and quality of its material, to any of the preceding, careful study of the first edition, we have had no We hope it will be extensively read, and the sound principles which are herein taught treasured up for future application. The work takes rank with Watson's Practice of Physic; it certainly does not fall behind that great work in soundness of princi- ple or depth of reasoning and research. No physi- cian who values his reputation, or seeks the interests of his clients, can acquit himself before his God and the world without making himself familiar with the sound and philosophical views developed in the fore- going book.—New Orleans lied, and Surg. Journal. Without doubt the ablest exposition of the prin- ciples of that branch of the healing art in any lan- cause to change on examining the second. This edition has undergone thorough revision by the au- thor; many expressions have'been modified, and a mass of new matter introduced. The book is got up in the finest style, and is an evidence of the progress of typography in our country.—Charleston Medical Journal and Review. We recommend it to both student and practitioner, feeling assured that as it now comes to us, it pre- sents the most satisfactory exposition of the modern doctrines of the principles of surgery to be found in any volume in any language.—N. Y. Journal of Medicine. BY the SAME author. (IVow Beady.) THE PRACTICE OF SURGERY. Third American from the second Eclin- burgh edition. Edited, with Additions, by F. W. Sargent, M. D , one of the Surgeons to Will's Hospital, 5cc. Illustrated by three hundred and nineteen engravings on wood. In one large octavo volume, of over seven hundred pages. No encomium of ours could add to the popularity By the almost unanimous voice of the profession, of Miller's Surgery. Its reputation in this country his works, both on the principles and practice of is unsurpassed by that of any other work, and, when surgery have been assigned the highest rank. If we taken in connection with the author's Principles of were limited to but one work on surgery, that one Surgery, constitutes a whole, without reference to should be Miller's, as we regard it superior to att which no conscientious sur?eon would be willing others.—St. Louis Med. and Surg. Journal. to practice his art. The additions, bv Dr. Sargent, m ,...,, ,.i have materiallv enhanced the value of the work.- Tne auth°r distinguished alike as a practitioner Southern Medical and Surgical Journal. and writer, ha It is seldom that two volumes have ever made so profound an impression in so short a time as the '• Principles and the Practice of Surgery by Mr. Miller—or so richly merited the reputation they have acquired. The author is an eminently sensi- ble, practical, and well-informed man, who' knows exactly what he is talking about and exactly how to talk it.—Kentucky Medical Recorder. The two volumes together form a complete expose of the present state of Surgery, and they ought to lie on the shelves of every surgeon.—N. J. Med. Re- porter. sented to the profession one of the most complete and reliable systems of Surgery extant. His style of writing is original, impressive, and engaging, ener- getic, concise^ and lucid. Few have t*he faculty of condensing so much in small space, and at the same time so persistently holding the attention; indeed, he appears to make the very process of condensation a means of eliminating attractions. Whether as a text-book for Btudents or a book of reference for practitioners, it cannot be too strongly recommend- ed.—Southern Journal of the Medical and Physical Scit7ices. MALGAIGNE (J. F.L OPERATIVE SURGERY, based on Normal and Pathological Anatomy. Trans- lated from the French, by Frederick Brittan, A. B., M. D. With numerous illustrations on wood. In one handsome octavo volume, of neariy six hundred pages. We unhesitatingly pronounce it the very best I profession in any language.—Charleston Med. and guide in surgical operations that has come before the | Surg. Journal. MOHR (FRANCIS), PH.D., AND REDWOOD (THEOPHILUS). PRACTICAL PHARMACY. Comprising the Arrangements, Apparatus, and Manipulations of the Pharmaceutical Shop and Laboratory. Edited, with extensive Additions, by Prof. William Procter, of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. In one handsomely printed octavo volume, of 570 pages, w7ith over 500 engravings on wood. It is a book, however, which will be in the hands sary thereto. On these matters, this work is very of almost every one who is much interested in phar- full and complete, and details, in a style uncom- maceutical operations, as we know of no other pub- monly clear and lucid, not only the more compli- Ideation so well calculated to fill a void long felt.— cated and difficult processes, but those not less im- Medical Examiner. portant ones, the most simple and common.—Buffalo The book is strictly practical, and describes only MtMeal Journal. manipulations or methods of performing the nume- The country practitioner who is obliged to dis- rous processes the pharmaceutist has to go through, pense his own medicines, will find it a most valuable in the preparation and manufacture of medicines, assistant.—Monthly Journal and Retrospect. together with all the apparatus and fixtures neces- I MACKENSIE (W.), M. D., Surgeon Oculist in Scotland in ordinary to Her Majesty, &c. &c. A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THE EYE. To which is prefixed an Anatomical Introduction explanatory of a Horizontal Section of the Human Eyeball. By Thomas Wharton Jones, F. R. S. From the Fourth Revised and Enlarged London Edition. With Notes and Additions by Addinell Hewsow, M. D., Physician to Wills Hospital. &c. &c. In one very large and handsome octavo volume, with plates and numerous wood-cuts. (Preparing.) The reputation which this work has universally attained will be enhanced by the present edition. Besides the thorough revision by the author which it has enjoyed in recently passing through the press in London, the additions by the editor will embrace whatever is necessary to adapt it com- pletely to the wants of the American practitioner, constituting it a library of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery.