Book on the physician himself : and things that concern his reputation and success / by D.W. Cathell.

  • Cathell, D. W. (Daniel Webster), 1839-1925.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Book on the physician himself : and things that concern his reputation and success / by D.W. Cathell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Abstracts froa Reviews^^Smith's Physioloqy. ^s^ :Bc- The work throughout is well balanced. Broad, though not encyclopaedic, concise without sacrificing clearness, it combines the essentials of a successful text-book. It is eminently modern, and, although first in the field, is of such grade of excellence that successors must reach a high standard be- fore they become competitors.—Annals of Surgery. Dr. Smith has conferred a great benefit upon the veterinary profession by his con- tribution to their use of a work of immense value, and has provided the American vet- erinary student with the only means by which he can become properly familiar with the physiology of our domestic animals. Veterinary practitioners and graduates will read it with pleasure. Veterinary students will readily acquire needed knowledge from its pages, and veterinary schools which wouldbe well equipped for the work they aim to perform cannot ignore it as their text-book in physiology.—American Veteri- nary Review. Dr. Smith's presentment of his subject is as brief as the status of the science per- mits, and to this much-desired conciseness he has added an equally welcome clearness ©f statement. The illustrations in the work are exceedingly good, and must prove a valuable aid to the full understanding of the text.—Journal of Comparative Medicine and Surgery. We have examined the work in a great many particulars, and find the views so correct, where we have had the means of comparison of statements with those of some recognized authority, that we will be com- pelled hereafter to look to this work as the text-book on physiology of animals. The book will prove of incalculable benefit to veterinarians wherever they may be found; and to the country physician, who is often called upon to attend to sick animals as well as human beings, we would say, lose no time in getting this work and let him familiarize himself with the facts it con- tains.— Virginia Medical Monthly. Altogether, Professor Smith's Physi- ology of the Domestic Animals is a happy production, and will be hailed with delight in both the human medical and veterinary medical worlds. It should find its place besides in all agricultural libraries.—Paul Paquin, M.D.. VS., in the Weekly Medical Review. It may be said that it supplies to the veterinary student the place in physiology that Chauveau's incomparable work— The Comparative Anatomy of the Domesticated Animals—occupies in anatomy. Higher praise than this it is not possible to bestow. And since it is true that the same laws of physiology which are applicable to the vital process of the domestic animals are also ap- plicable to man, a perusal of this carefully written book will repay the medical student or practitioner.—Canadian Practitioner. The work before us fills the hiatus of which complaint has so often been made, and gives in the compass of less than a thousand pages a very full and complete account of the functions of the body in both carnivora and herbivora. The author has judiciously made the nutritive functions the strong point of the work, and has devoted special attention to the subject of foods and digestion. In looking through the other sections of the work, it appears to us that a just proportion of space is assigned to each, in view of their relative importance to the practitioner. Thus, while the subject of re- production is dismissed in a few pages, a chapter of considerable length is devoted to locomotion, and especially to the gaits oi the horse.—London Lancet. This is almost the only work of the kind in the English language, and it so fully covers every detail of general and special physiology that there is no room for any rival. The excellence of typographical work, and the wealth, beauty, and clear- ness of the illustrations, correspond with the thoroughness and clearness of the treatise.—Albany Medical Annals. It is not often that the medical profes- sion has the opportunity of reading a new book upon a new subject, and doubtless English-speaking physicians will feel grate- ful to Professor Smith for his admirable and pioneer work in a branch of medical science u] >on which a great amount of ignor- ance prevails. . . . The last portion of the work is devoted to the reproductive functions, and contains much valuable in- formation upon a portion of animal physi- ology concerning which many are ignorant. The book is a valuable one in every way, and will be consulted largely by veterinary and medical students and practitioners.— Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal. The appearance of this work is most op- portune. It will be much appreciated, as tending to secure the thorough comprehen- sion of function in the domesticated ani- mals, and, in consequence, their general well-being—a matter of world-wide impor- tance. With a thorough sense of gratifica- tion we have perused its pages: throughout we find clear expression, clear reasoning, and that patient accumulation of facts so valuable in a text-book for students.— British Medical Journal. For notice this time, I take up the vol- ume on the Physiology of the Domestic Animals, by Dr. R. Meade Smith, a volume of 938 pages, closely printed, and dealing with its subject in a manner sufficiently ex- haustive to insure its place as a text-book, for fifteen years at the very least. Its learning is only equaled by its industry, and its industry by the consistency and skill with winch its varied parts are brought together into harmonious, lucid, and in- tellectual unity.—Dk. Benjamin Ward Richardson, in the London Asclepi id.