OF THE MEDICAL PUBLICATIONS OF F. A. DAVIS, MEDICAL PUBLISHER AND BOOKSELLER, 1231 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, Pa. BRANCH OFFICES: NEW YORK CITY-117 W. 42d Street. CHICAGO, ILL.-24 Lakeside Building, 214-220 S. Clark St., Cor. Adams. ATLANTA, GA.-25 Old Capitol. LONDON, ENG.-40 Berners Street, Oxford Street, W. ORDER FROM NEAREST OFFICE. FOR SALE BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. Principles of Surgery. By N. SENN, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Principles of Surgery and Surgical Pathology in Rush Medical College, Chicago, Ill.; Professor of Surgery in the Chicago Polyclinic; Attending Surgeon to the Milwaukee Hospital; Consulting Surgeon to the Milwaukee County Hospital and to the Milwaukee County Insane Asylum. In one handsome Royal Octavo volume, with 109 fine Wood-Engravings and 624 pages. This work, by one of America's greatest surgeons, is thoroughly COMPLETE; its clearness and brevity of statement are among its conspicuous merits. The author's long, able, and conscientious researches in every direction in this important field are a guarantee of unusual trustworthiness, that every branch of the subject is treated authoritatively and in such a manner as to bring the greatest gain in knowledge to the Practitioner and Student. It has already been placed on the list of Text-Books of several Medical Colleges in the United Stats. Physicians and Surgeons alike should not deprive themselves of this very important work. A critical examination of the Wood-Engravings (109 in number) will reveal the fact that they are thoroughly accurate and produced by the best artistic ability. Opinions and Criticisms on Senn's "Principles of Surgery." STEPHEN SMITH, M.D., Professor of Clinical Surgery Medical Department University of the City of New York, writes: "I have examined the work with great satisfaction and regard it as a most valuable addition to American Surgical literature. There has long been great need of a work on the principles of Surgery which would fully illustrate the present advanced state of knowledge of the various subjects embraced in this volume. The work seems to me to meet this want admirably." L. C. LANE, A.M., M.D., M.R.C.S., LL.D., Professor of Surgery in and President of the Cooper Medical College, San Francisco, thus writes:-"Especially is the work valuable as a comprehensive review of the subject of the bacteriological causation of surgical disease in no other work can so much be found told so briefly and so well as has been done by Professor Senn in this book." ROSWELL PARK, M.D., Professor of Principles and Practice of Surgery and Clinical Surgery in the University of Butfalo, N. Y., writes:-"I must congratulate both author and publisher on the excellent work laid before us. For years I have wanted just such a book to put into the hands of my students, and now I can give no warmer commendation of it than to state that I have urged all my class to lose no time in procuring it." "The achievements of Modern Surgery are akin to the marvelous, and Dr. Senn has set forth the principles of the science with a completeness that seems to leave nothing further to be said until new discoveries are made. The work is systematic and compact, without a fact omitted or a sentence too much, and it not only makes instructive but fascinating reading. A conspicuous merit of Senn's work is his method, his persistent and tireless search through original inves tigations for additions to knowledge, and the practical character of his discoveries. This combination of the discover and the practical man gives a special value to all his work, and is one of the secrets of his fame. No physician in any line of practice can afford to be without Senn's Principles of Surgery."-The Review of Insanity and Nervous Diseases. JUST PUBLISHED A NEW AND VALUABLE WORK ON PRACTICAL ELECTRICITY -IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY. -BY G. A. LIEBIG, Jr., Ph.D., Assistant in Electricity, Johns Hopkins University; Lecturer on Medical Electricity, College of Phy sicians and Surgeons, Baltimore; Member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, etc., -AND GEORGE H. ROHÉ, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Hygiene, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore; Visiting Physician to Bay View and City Hospitals; Director of the Maryland Maternité; Associate Editor "Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences," etc. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED BY WOOD-ENGRAVINGS AND ORIGINAL DIAGRAMS, AND PUBLISHED IN ONE The part on Physical Electricity, written by Dr. Liebig, one of the recognized authorities on the science in the United States, treats fully such topics of interest as Storage Batteries, Dynamos, the Electric Light, and the Principles and Practice of Electrical Measurement in their relations to Medical Practice. Professor Rohé, who writes on Electro-Therapeutics, discusses at length the recent developments of Electricity in the treatment of stricture, enlarged prostate, uterine fibroids, pelvic cellulitis, and other diseases of the male and female genito-urinary organs. 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Great care has been taken throughout the book to familiarize the student with the best methods of administering the various drugs he will be called upon to use, and with this object a large number of standard prescriptions have been selected from the works of the most eminent authorities, which he can either adopt, with modifications to suit particular cases, or use as models on which to construct his own formulæ." This excellent manual comprises in its 366 small octavo pages about as much sound and valuable information on the subjects indicated in its title as could well be crowded into the compass. The book is exhaustively and correctly indexed, and of a convenient form. The paper, press-work, and binding are excellent, and the typography (long primer and brevier) is highly to be commended, as opposed to the nonpareil and agate usually used in compends of this sort, and which are destructive to vision and temper alike.-St. Louis Med, and Surg. Jour. In going through it, we have been favorably impressed by the plain and practical suggestions in regard to prescription writing, and the metric system, and the other things which must be known in order to write good and accurate prescriptions.Medical and Surgical Reporter. Many works claim more in their title-pages than can be verified further on, but the only adverse criticism we can make on this volume is that it does not claim enough.-Southern California Practitioner. The book is one of the very best of its class.Columbus Medical Journal. This is a very condensed and valuable resume of the drugs recognized by the United States Pharmacopoeia, and all the officinal and important preparations.-Southern Medical Record. Dr. Bowen's work is a very valuable one indeed, and will be found "to fill a want" beyond a doubt. -Cincinnati Medical News. It is short and concise in its treatment of the subjects, yet it gives sufficient to gain a very correct knowledge of everything that comes under this heading. This is a ready work for the country physician, who must of necessity have a more practical acquaintance with pharmaceutical processes.— Médical Brief. One 12mo volume of 370 pages. Handsomely Bound in Dark-Blue Cloth. Price, post-paid, in the United States and Canada, $1.40, net; in Great Britain, 6s. 6d.; in France, 9 fr. 25. (F. A. DAVIS, Medical Publisher, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A.) 3 BASHORE'S IMPROVED CLINICAL CHART. For the SEPARATE PLOTTING of TEMPERATURE, PULSE, and RESPIRATION. Designed for the Convenient, Accurate, and Permanent Daily Recording of Cases in Hospital and Private Practice. 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The subjoined letters will show with what interest this work is regarded (a brief article having first appeared in the "Medical and Surgical Reporter " of Philadelphia) : DR. SOZINSKEY. DEAR DOCTOR :-Many thanks. You ought to enlarge the article to a little book. It interested me greatly. In a bas-relief of myself by St. Gaudens, New York, he has set beside the head the caduceus and twin serpents as symbolical; at all events, they will symbolize my relation to snakes. 1524 WALNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, DR. T. S. SOZINSKEY. Yours truly, S. WEIR MITCHELL. PHILADELPHIA, JAN. 24, 1884. DEAR SIR-Please accept my thanks for your paper on "Medical Symbolism," received this morning. I have read it with great interest, more especially as it is in the direction of the higher education of Physicians. The preponderance of the so-called practical (empirical) in medical literature, which appeals strongly to the trade element in the profession, makes such a contribution all the more enjoyable. 1427 N. SIXTEENTH STREET. DR. T. S. SOZINSKEY. Very truly yours, FRANCES EMILY WHITE. MY DEAR DOCTOR :-I write to thank you for a copy of your interesting and instructive paper on "Medical Symbolism." In Fergusson, on "Tree and Serpent Worship," which you quote, you can readily trace the connection between the emblems of religion and medicine. I recognize that, as priest and Physician were once the same person, medicine is yet justly termed "the divine art." It affords me much pleasure to see your studious interest in your profession. Yours truly, HENRY H. SMITH. |