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The works of Eberle, Dewees, Thacher, and Gallup, have been to a 

 great extent superseded by those of more recent authors. Dr. Cook's 

 Treatise on Pathology and Therapeutics, is perhaps best known in 

 the notice taken of it by Dr. Bartlett in his work on Medical Phi- 

 losophy. Dr. Samuel Jackson's Principles of Organic Medicine 

 shared the decline of the doctrine in the spirit of which it was 

 written. The American Treatises now most prominently before the 

 public, are the Lectures of Dr. Chapman, which it is unnecessary to 

 commend in a report to this Association; the learned compilation of 

 Dunglison, the practical and judicious work of Dr. Wood, one of the 

 recent important contributions to American Medical Science, the 

 Lectures of Bell and Stokes, the greater part of which are by the 

 American author, and the massive volumes of Medical and Physio- 

 logical Commentaries by Dr. Paine. The work of Dr. Dickson, 

 which embraces a more limited range of subjects than some of those 

 mentioned, is particularly valuable to the student of the diseases of 

 the South. Dr. Bartlett's Treatise on Medical Philosophy, is as re- 

 markable for the elegance of its style, as for the liberal and genial 

 spirit and truly philosophic breadth of view which it exhibits. Dr. 

 Stille's Treatise on Pathology, very recently published, is an import- 

 ant addition to American Medicine. The author has been trained 

 in the rigorous school of observation, and assumes an elevated 

 standard for the student, in reaching which the work itself will 

 prove an admirable guide. Among many points which deserve atten- 

 tion in this volume, the explanation of the heart's impulse by refer- 

 ring it to the distension of the ventricle, by the contraction of the 

 auricle, is the most original. Contrary to the prevailing physiologi- 

 cal opinion, Dr. Stille does not hesitate to admit, that the weight of 

 facts and probabilities is in favour of the doctrine of spontaneous 

 generation. The introductory essay to this volume is another chap- 

 ter of the "Philosophy of Medicine," with a few sentences which 

 savour of Oxford, but equally remarkable for comprehensiveness and 

 accurate discrimination. Few general works on medicine have been 

 transferred from foreign languages. Broussais's History of Chronic 

 Phlegmasia, and Principles of Physiological Medicine were both 

 translated by Drs. Hays and Griffith. His Treatise on Physiology 

 applied to Pathology, translated by Drs. Bell and La Roche, ap- 

 peared about the same time. The Elements of General Pathology 

 of Chomel, an admirable manual, has been carefully translated by 

 Drs. Oliver and Morland, and published within the past year. 

 In the meantime, great numbers of British text books have been 



