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HENRY C. LEA'S PUBLICATIONS (Physiology). 



CARPENTER (WILLIAM B.}, M.D., F. R. S.,, F.G.S., F.L.S., 



Registrar to University of London, etc. 



PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY; Edited by HENRY POWER, 



M.B. Lond., F.R.C.S., Examiner in Natural Sciences, University of Oxford. A new 

 American from the Eighth Revised and Enlarged English Edition, with Notes and Addi- 

 tions, by FRANCIS G. SMITH, M. D., Professor of the Institutes cf Medicine in the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, etc. In one very large and handsome octa\o volume, of 1083 pages, 

 with tv o plates and 373 engravings on wood; cloth, $5 50 ; leather, $6 50. (Now Ready.) 



The great work, the crowning labor of the distinguished author, and through which so ninny 

 generations of students have acquired their knowledge of Physiology, has been almost metamor- 

 phosed in the effort to acapt it thoroughly to the requirements of modern science. Since the 

 appearance of the last American edition, it has had several revisions at the experienced band of 

 Mr. Power, who has modified and enlarged it so as to introduce all that is important in the 

 investigation.-, and discoveries of England, France, and Germany, resulting in an enlargement of 

 about one-fourth in the text. The series of illustrations has undergone a like revision, a large 

 proportion of the former ones having been rejected, and the total number increased to nearly 

 four hundred The thorough revi-ion which the work has so recently received in England, has 

 rendered unnecessary any elaborate additions in this country but the American Editor, Pro- 

 fessor Smith, has introduced such matters as his long experience has shown him to be requisite 

 for the student. Every care has been taken with the typographical execution, and the work is 

 presented, with its thousand closely, but clearly printed pages, as emphatically the text-book for 

 the student and practitioner of medicine the one in which, as heretofore, especial care is directed 

 to show the applications of physiology in the various practical branches of medical science. 

 Notwithstanding its very great enlargement, the price has not been increased, rendering this 

 ne of the cheapest works now before the profession. 



What an enormous labor the editor has had to perform, 

 incorporating into the text the isolated discoveries, and 

 observations of various authors in the different depart- 

 ments of physiology, may be partly gathered from his 

 preface. .Such editing is, indeed, a most arduous task. 

 and one to which but few would aspire, for the reputa- 

 tion gained is by no means proportionate to the labor 

 expended. In this case the work has been well and 

 faithfully done, and no mean skill has been exhibited in 

 introducing so much that is new, and leaving; the work 

 so thoroughly '' Carpenter's Physiology'' after all. 

 Ohio Meit . and Surg. Journ., Feb. 1877. 



"Good wine needs no bush" says the proverb, and 

 an old and faithful servant like the " big" Carpenter, as 

 carefully brought down as this edition has been by Mr. 

 Henry Power, needs little or no commendation by us. 

 Such enormous advances have recently been made in our 

 physiological knowledge, thnt what was perfectly new a 

 year or two ago. looks now as if it had been a received 

 and established fact for years. In this encyclopaedic 

 way it is unrivalled. Here, as it seems to us, is the 

 great value of the book : one is safe in sending a student 

 to it for information on almost an}* given subject, per- 

 fectly certain of the fulness of information it will con- 

 vey, and well satisfied of the accuracy with which it will 

 there In- found stated. London Med. Times and Gazett?. 

 Feb. 17, 1876. 



Thus fully are treated the structure and functions of all 

 the important organs of the body, while there are chap- 



ters on sleep and somnambulism ; chapters on ethnology ; 

 a full section on generation, and abundant references to 

 the curiosities of physiology, as the evolution of light, 

 heat, electricity, etc. In short, this new edition of Car- 

 penter i-, as we have said at the start, a very encyclo- 

 pedia of modern physiology. The Clinic, Feb. 24, lf.77. 



The merits of "Carpenter's Physiology are so widely 

 known and appreciated that we need only allude briefly 

 to the fact that in thelatest edi'ion will be found com- 

 prehensive embodiment of the results of recent physio- 

 logical investigation. Care has been taken to preserve 

 the practical character of the original work. In fact 

 the entire work has been brought up to date, and bears 

 evidence of the amount of labor that has been bestowed 

 upon it by its distinguished editor. Mr Henry Power. 

 The American editor has made the latest additions, in 

 order fully to cover the time that has elapsed since the 

 last English edition. N. Y Mr.il. Journal,, Jan. 1*77. 



A more thorough work on physiology could not be 

 found. In this all the facts discovered by the late re- 

 searches are noticed, and neither student nor practi- 

 tioner should be without this exhaustive treatise on an 

 important elementary branch of medicine. Atlimtn 

 Med. and Sun/ Journal, Dec. 1876. 



We regard it, as a text-book, as near perfect as coub] 

 be, and a book of reference ot'the greatest value to the 

 practitioner, (lie student, and the lecturer. Xashvillc 

 Journ. i if Medicine and S'irgery. Dec. Ib7t>. 



IflRKES ( WILLIAM SENHOUSE), M.D. 



A MANUAL OF PHYSIOLOGY. Edited by W. MORRANT BAKKR, 



M.D., F.R.C.S. A new American from the eighth and improved London edition. With 

 about two hundred and fifty illustrations. In one large and handsome royal 12mo. vol- 

 ume. Cloth, $3 25; leather, $3 75. (Lately issued.) 



Kirkes' Physiology has long been known as a concise and exceedingly convenient text-book, 

 presenting within a narrow compass all that is important for the student. The rapidity with 

 which successive editions have followed each other in England has enabled the editor to keep it 

 thoroughly on a level with the changes and new discoveries made in the science, and the eighth 

 edition, of which the present is a reprint, has appeared so recently that it may be regarded ;is 

 the latest accessible exposition of the subject. 



On the whole, there is very little in the book 

 which either the student or practitioner will notfiud 

 of practical value and consistent with our present 

 knowledge of thin rapidly changing science; and we 

 have no hesitation in expretfing our opinion that 

 thin eighth edition is one of the best handbooks on 

 physiology which we have in our language. N. Y. 

 tfed. Record, April 15, 1873. 



Tint* volume might well be used to replace many 

 of the physiological text-books in use in this coun- 

 try. It represents more accurately than the works 

 of Dalton or Flint, the present state of our knowl- 

 edge of most physiological questions, while it is 

 much less bulky and far more readable than the lar- 



ger text-books of Carpenter or Marshall. The book 

 is admirably adapted to be placed in the hands of 

 students. Boston Med. and Sury. Journ., April 10, 

 1873. 



In its enlarged form it is, in our opinion, still the 

 best book on physiology, most useful to the student. 

 Phil a. Med. Times, Aug. 30, 1873. 



This is undoubtedly the best work for students of 

 physiology extant. Cincinnati Mid. Kr.ws, Sept. '73. 



It more nearly represents the present condition of 

 physiology than any other text-book on thesubject. 

 Detroit Rev. of Med. P'uarm., Nov. 1873. 



