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Rees, Markwick and Griffith, on the same subject, recently pub- 

 lished; Thacher on Hydrophobia; Hillary on the Diseases of Bar- 

 badoes, and Pringle on those of the Army, both edited by Dr. 

 Rush; Johnson and Martin on the Influence of Tropical Climates. 

 Many valuable works were reprinted in the Medical Libraries, pub- 

 lished by Drs. Bell and Dunglison, which were the means of diffus- 

 ing, in a cheap and serviceable form, a large mass of foreign medical 

 literature. 



The Medical Dictionaries of Drs. Dunglison and Gardner, and 

 the reprints of Hooper and Hoblyn, must not be forgotten. Still 

 less should the debt of gratitude be repudiated, which the profession 

 owes to its biographers. The memory of many of our brethren, 

 whose names we would not willingly let die, are rescued for pos- 

 terity in the laborious, kindly and erudite work of Dr. Thacher ; for 

 the continuation of which Dr. Williams lives to receive the credit 

 due to his grateful exertions. 



It is the fate of most works on Materia Medica to be soon super- 

 seded by newer compilations. The works of Barton, Bigelow, Coxe, 

 Chapman and Eberle, have been, to a great extent, replaced by that 

 of Wood and Bache, the well-deserved popularity of which is still 

 continued; the "New Remedies,'" of Dunglison, which has passed 

 through several editions; the illustrated Treatises of Griffith and 

 Carson ; the works of Ellis, Bell, Paine, Harrison, Beck and Car- 

 penter, may be added to the ample list of native productions on this 

 ample topic. Besides these, many foreign treatises have been domi- 

 ciliated in our own literature, among which that of Pereira stands 

 pre-eminent for completeness and weight of authorities. Very 

 recently the catalogue has been enlarged by the works of Ballard 

 and Garrod, Boyle, Neligan, Thomson, a new edition of Paris' 

 Pharmacologia, and last upon the list, Mayne's Dispensatory. 



In Midwifery, the Compendium of Bard, and the fuller Treatise 

 of Dewees — the work which has done more than any other to form 

 the obstetric habits of this country — of Meigs, of Tucker, and of 

 Warrington, constitute the library of American authors. Moreau's 

 splendid volume has been presented to the public in an English dress, 

 by Dr. Goddard ; the free and easy females of Maygrier have found 

 themselves transferred to the blushing pages of American science; 

 Velpeau has been given in translation by Dr. Meigs, and Chailly by 

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