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HENRY C. LEA'S PUBLICATIONS (Surgery). 



IR OSS (SAMUEL D.), M.D., 



Professor of Surgery in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. 



A SYSTEM OF SURGERY: Pathological, Diagnostic, Therapeutic, 



and Operative. Illustrated by upwards of Fourteen Hundred Engravings. Fifth edition, 

 carefully revised, and improved. In two large and beautifully printed imperial octavo vol- 

 umes of about 2300 pages, strongly bound in leather, with raised bands, $15. (Just Issvr.d.) 

 The continued favor, shown by the exhaustion of successive large editions of this great work, 

 proves that it has successfully supplied a want felt by American practitioners and students. In the 

 present revision no pains have been spared by the author to bring it in every respect fully up to 

 the day. To effect this a large part of the work has been rewritten, and the whole enlarged by 

 nearly one-fourth, notwithstanding which the price has been kept at its former very moderate 

 rate. By the use of a close, though very legible type, an unusually large amount ol matter is 

 condensed in its pages, the two volumes containing as much as four or five ordinary octavos. 

 This, combined with the most careful mechanical execution, and its very durable binding, renders 

 it one of the cheapest works accessible to the profession. Every subject properly belonging to the 

 domain of surgery is treated in detail, so that the student who possesses this work may be said to 

 have in it a surgical library. 



We have now brought our task to a conclusion, and 

 have seldom read a work wiih the practical value of 

 which we have been more impressed. Every chapter is 

 so concisely put together, that the busy practitioner, 

 when in difficulty, can at once find the information he 

 requires. His work, on the contrary, is cosmopolitan, 

 the surgery uf the world being fully represented in it. 

 The work, in fact, is MI hi.-toricully unprejudiced, and so 

 eminently practical, that it is almost a false compliment 

 to say that we believe it to be destined to occupy a fore 

 most place as a work of reference, while a system of sur- 

 gery liku the present system of surgery 1 is the practice of 

 surgeons. The printing and binding of the work is un- 

 exceptionable; indeed, it contrasts, in the latter re- 

 spect, remarkably with English medical aurt surgical 

 cloth-bound publications, which are generally so wretch- 

 edly stitched as to require re-binding before they are 

 any time in use. Dull. Jnurn. uf Mi'tl. ,S'r/., March, 1874. 



Dr. <.i"- 'a Surgery, a great work, has become still 

 greater, Imtli in size and merit, in its most recent form. 

 The difference in actual numberof pages IB not more than 

 130, but. the size of the page having been increased lo 

 what we believe is technically termed "elephant." there 

 has been room for considerable additions, which, toge- 

 ther with the alterations, are improvements. Loud. 

 Lancet, Nov. Ki. 1872. 



It combines, as perfectly as possible, the qualities of 

 a text-book and work of reference. We think this last 

 edition of tiros.- 's ' Surgery." will confirm his title of 



' Primus inter J'n ,:$." It is learned, scholar-like, me- 

 thodical, precise, and exhaustive. We scarcely think 

 any livinir man could write so complete and faultless a 

 treatise, or comprehend more solid, instructive matter, 

 in the given number of pages. The labor must have 

 been immense, and the work gives evidence of great 

 powers of mind, and the highest order of intellectual 

 discipline. and methodical disposition, and arrangement 

 of acquired knowledge and personal experience. N. Y. 

 Mcd Joitrn,. Feb 1S73 



As a whole, we regard the work as the representative 

 " Sy.-tem of Surgery'' in the English language. Si. 

 Louis Mdlii'al null Siirg. Juurn., Oct. 1S72. 



The two magnificent volumes before us afford a very 

 complete view of the surgical knowledge of the day. 

 Some years ago we had the pleasure of presenting the 

 first edition of Gross's Surgery to the prote.-Meu as a 

 work of unrivalled excellence; and now we have the 

 result of years of experience, labor, and study, all con- 

 densed upon the great work before us. And to smdents 

 or practitioners desirous of enriching their library with 

 a treasure of reference, we can simply commend the 

 purchase of these two volumes of immense research 

 Cincinnati Lanctt and Ol>s<rct:r, Sept. 1^7-. 



A complete system of surgery not a mere text-book 

 of operations, but a scientific account of surgical theory 

 and practice in all its departments. Brit, and For. Mi ./.- 

 Chir. Rev., Jan. 1873. 



J^Y THE SAME AUTHOR. 



A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE DISEASES, INJURIES, 



and Malformations of the Urinary Bladder, the Prostate Gland, and the Urethra. Third 

 Edition, thoroughly Revised and Condensed, by SAMUEL W. Guoss, M.D., Surgeon to 

 the Philadelphia Hospital. In one handsome octavo volume of 574 pages, with 17tl illus- 

 trations: cloth, $4 50. (Now Ready.) 



The editor has availed himself of the opportunity afforded by the call for a new edition of this 

 work tn thoroughly revise -imi render it in every respect worthy of its position as a standard au- 

 thority. Ijeing in great part rewritten, the opportunity has been taken to condense it as much 

 as possible, so that it will be found reduced in size, while yet containing the latest views ou the 

 subjects discussed. 



For reference and general information, the phy.-iei in 

 or snruc'.n can find no work that meets t heir ncccs-i ties 

 more thoroughly than this-, a revised edition of an ex- 

 cellent treatise, and no medical library .should be wilh- 

 out it. lleph te with handsome 1 ilhMrali n- and good 

 ideas, it lias I he unusual advantage of U ing easily 

 comprehended, by the reasonable and practical manner 



This work i- a very valuable addition to surgical lite 

 ralure. and will be found useful to all who may refer 

 to it. Journal of Nervous and Mi-nini I><SI-KSI-> Oct. IN'O 



The book is fully up to the limes, and we know of no 

 monograph on the subject of urinary diseases that is 



fuller and more complete than the under notice. 



dim-in, l.iim-,1 ami nlis, in-r. lice b-7ii. 



It is a valuable and exhaustive treatise on tbe surgery 



of the in inary organs, brought fully up to the e\i-t in 1 .' 

 state of our knowledge. A perusal of its :'i74 pages will 

 amp \ repay Ihe in vcstigator. I'm" lit- .I/"/, in.il Surj. 

 Jour>i, Nov. l*7fi. 



Niilhiii'.: n 1 be said tn commend Ibis standard work 



to the pi 'ii, e -ion. It has long liecu considered one of 

 the mosi valuable from the pen of the di -I ingui-hed 

 author The editor has done his work ably and faith- 

 fully, and several of the chapn-rs. by no means the lea.-t. 

 useful ones, lire from his ].,,: :ls m graph repre- 

 senting all the sui-L'ery of the parts of which it treats, 

 it has no Superior in our tongue. Mcd and Surtj Jte- 

 porter, Oct. 'Jl. IS7U. 



in which the \arimis subjects are s\ .-Icmali/cd and 

 arran. ed \\'e heartily recommend it to I he n rotes- inn 



a" a valuable addition to the important l<t- u "t 'dis- 

 eases of the urinary organs. Atlanta Mul Jmtrn.. Oct. 



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1 1 N w il b pleasure' we now again take up this old \vm k 

 in a decidedly new dress. Indeed, it uiii-t be regarded 

 as a new bonk in very many of ils parts. The chapters 

 on " Diseases of Ihe Bladder." "Prostate !>ody." and 

 l,ilholoni\ ." are splendid specimens of dr-cripthr 



writing; while the chapter on "Stricture" is one of the 



most coiici-e and clear that we have CMT read A'eif 

 York Mtil. Joiini., Nov. 1S76. 



>Y THE SAME AUTHOR. 



A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON FOREIGN BODIES IN THE 



AIH-PASSAGES. In 1 vol. 8vo. , with illustration, pp. 468, cloth, $2 75. 



