COMPLETION OF DR. COPLAND'S MEDICAL DICTIONARY. 



Just published, PARTS XIX. and XX. (a double Part, completion, \vitli classified CONTENTS 

 uiid u copious INDEX) price 9s. sewed; and VOLUME III. (iu two Parts) 



8vo. price 2. 11s. cloth, 



A DICTIONARY 



OF 



PEACTICAL MEDICINE. 



COMPRISING GENERAL PATHOLOGY, THE NATURE 

 AND TREATMENT OF DISEASES, MORBID STRUCTURES, AND THE 



DISORDEE8 ESPECIALLY INCIDENTAL TO CLIMATES, TO SEX, AND TO TIIE DIFFERENT 



EPOCHS OF LIFE ; WITH NUMEROUS APPROVED FORMULJ5 



OF THE MEDICINES RECOMMENDED, ETC. 



By JAMES COPLAND, M.D. F.U.S. &c. 



!g^ VOLS. I. and II., price 60s. cloth, may also be had : and the Work complete in 3 vols. 

 price 5. lls. cloth. The PARTS may at present be had separately ; but the Publishers will 

 be obliged by the Subscribers perfecting their sets with as little delay as possible. 



THIS Wort, which has been so long in the 

 press, and of which the greater part has been 

 lone: before the medical profession and public, is now 

 completed. Its extensive scope, and the comprehen- 

 sive views taken of the numerous subjects comprised 

 in it, entitle it to be named an Encyclopaedia of the 

 Principles and Practice of Medicine, rather than a 

 Dictionary merely. The author has prefixed to the 

 work an extensive classification of its contents, with 

 the view of directing the reader, and especially the stu- 

 dent of medicine, to commence with those subjects 

 which are elementary, so that he may comprehend 

 more fully, and profit the more by the study of, what 

 should successively follow. This object is kept in 

 view throughout. The simpler and less complicated 

 subjects precede, in this classification, the more com- 

 plex ; the slighter forms of disease introducing those 

 which are more malignant and dangerous. 



The principles of pathology form an important part 

 of the work, and are commenced with an arranged 

 exposition of the causes of disease. The operation of 

 these causes upon the vital force, and the effects pro- 

 duced by them, are viewed in ultimate connexion 

 with, and dependence upon, the nature of the causes. 

 After a full discussion of these subjects, and a minute 

 exposition of the organic changes to which the indi- 

 vidual textures and organs are liable, the author 

 exhibits a view of the signs and symptoms by which 

 morbid actions and changes may be inferred, indi- 

 vidual diseases recognised, and their successive 

 stages and states ascertained. Having set forth the 

 causes, the operation of the causes, the effects pro- 

 duced by them, and the symptoms and signs by 

 which the nature and progress of the effects are 

 manifested, he therTdevelopes the general and special 

 principles of therapeutics, and enumerates and 

 classifies therapeutic agents, conformably with their 

 physiological and practical operations. 



Thus prepared for the consideration of the indi- 

 vidual species and forms of disease, the author com- 

 mences, by means of his arrangement, with the 

 slighter disorders, and advances successively to the 

 more severe, to the more malignant and complicated, 

 and ultimately to the most dangerous and fatal. 

 When describing each species or form of disease, the 

 simple and uncomplicated states of it are first con- 

 sidered, and afterwards, the most frequent associa- 

 tions and complications presented by it in practice. 

 The causes, the diagnosis, the prognosis, the termina- 

 tion, the appearances observed in fatal cases, the pre- 



vention and the treatment of each malady, are 

 fully discussed ; and the remedies required, and the 

 modes of combining them, are shown and illustrated 

 by numerous prescriptions and formulae. Each sub- 

 ject is concluded with an historical bibliography and 

 references to the best authorities. 



The descriptions of diseases, and of their patho- 

 logical and therapeutical relations, have been based 

 upon the author's own observations. Having devoted 

 many years to the preparatory and actual study of 

 the medical sciences, he subsequently observed 

 closely the diseases of temperate and warm climates ; 

 and his public and private practice for many years 

 lias furnished him with sufficiently numerous op- 

 portunities of observing and of treating the diseases 

 incidental to sex, to all ages, and to all circumstances 

 of life and of employment. His work furnishes, in 

 numerous places, proofs of original views and doc- 

 trines of disease, of novel modes of treatment, and 

 of successful means and methods of cure, especially 

 in the most severe aud dangerous states of disease. 

 But whilst he adduces his own doctrines, descriptions, 

 and treatment, he does not neglect the views of, and 

 the means advised by, other writers. On the con- 

 trary, he refers to the most eminent, and, whilst 

 he notices apparently opposed opinions, he often 

 reconciles them, by showing that different states, 

 stages, and epidemic prevalences, require very dif- 

 ferent or even opposite remedies and methods of 

 cure. 



In addition to a full exposition of every morbid 

 condition, and of all the specific forms and compli- 

 cations of disease, the author has described the 

 physiological and morbid action of poisonous sub- 

 stances, and the best means of preventing, of counter- 

 acting, and of remedying their effects. Theprevi'iition 

 of disease has also received due attention in several 

 articles devoted especially to this object. In addition 

 to the classified contents, and to an appendix of nu- 

 merous medical formula?, he has further appended to 

 his work a most copious index, compiled by himself. 

 To this work the author has devoted the long period 

 of thirty years; it contains the results of his obser- 

 vations, his researches, and his practice; and, as a 

 proof of the estimation in which the parts previously 

 published have been held abrcad, it may be stated 

 that the author has been presented with the honorary 

 fellowships of the principal arndeinirs of science and 

 learned societies on the continent of Europe and in 

 America. 



In announcing the completion of this great undertaking, the. Publishers feel that they may con.' 

 qralulate the Author on having accomplished a work which in itself is a monument to Ins /eurni//y, 

 laborious research^ and unwaried perseverance. 



IS ideas, his doctrines, his descriptions, 

 and his instructions are conveyed in language 

 at once terse, clear, forcible, and condensed ; and hi 

 whole work is in itself a library of pathological doc- 

 trine and therapeutical lore, of which English litera- 

 ture has every reason to be proud." 



MEDICAL TIMES AND GAZETTE. 



" TN DR. COPLAND'S Dictionary of Practical 

 -L Medicine we see a reflex of German erndition, 



French acutenrss, and British practical common 

 sense. It has long had an European reputation, and 

 will, we have no doubt, successfully maintain what 

 it has taken its author so much patient trouble to 

 acquire." LANCET. 



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