LEA & BLANCHARD'S PUBLICATIONS. 



NOW C0MPLE7E. 



THE GREAT SURGICAL LIBRARY. 



A SYSTEM "OF SURGERY. 



BY J. M. CHELIUS, 



Doctor in Medicine and Surgery, Public Professor of General and Ophthalmic Surgery, etc. etc. in the Uni- 

 versity of Heidelberg. 



TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN, 



AND ACCOMPANIED WITH ADDITIONAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS, 

 BY JOHN F. SOUTH, 



Surgeon to St. Thomas' Hospital. 



EDITED, WITH REFERENCE TO AMERICAN AUTHORITIES, 



BY GEORGE W. MORRIS, M. D. 



Now complete in three large 8vo. volumes of nearly twenty-two hundred pages, or in 17 numbers, at 50 cents. 

 This work has been delayed beyond the time originally promised for its completion, by the very extensive 

 additions of the translator. In answer to numerous inquiries, the publishers now have the pleasure to pre- 

 sent it in a perfect state to the profession, lormmg three unusually large volumes, bound in the best manner, 

 and sold at a very low price. 



This excellent work was originally published in Germany, under the unpretending title of "Handbook to 

 the Author's Lectures." In passing, however, through six successive editions, it has gradually increased 

 in extent and importance, until it now presents a complete view of European Surgery in general, but more 

 especially of English practice, and it is acknowledged to be well fitted to supply the admitted want of a com- 

 plete and extended system of Surgery m all its branches, comprehending both the principles and the prac- 

 tice of this important branch of the healing art. Since Benjamin Bell's great work, first published in 1783, 

 and now almost obsolete, no thorougli and extended work has appeared in the English language, occupying 

 the ground which this is so well calculated to cover. 



The fact of this work being carried to six editions in Germany, and translated into no less than eight lan- 

 guages, is a sufficient evidence of the aljilily with which the author has carried out his arduous design. 



This translation has been undertaken with the concurrence and sanction of Professor Chelius. The irans- 

 .ator, Mr. John F. South, appears to have devoted himself to it with singular industry and ardor, and to have 

 brought it up almost to the very hour of jsublication His notes and additions are very numerous, embodying 

 the results and opinions of all the distinguished surgeon.' of the day. Continental, English and American. 

 The leading opinions of John Hunter, on which Modern English Surgery has been raised, are set forth ; the 

 results of the recent mierivscopical discoveries, especially in reference to inflammation, will be found here, 

 together with many other practical observations, placing the work on a level with the present state of Sur- 

 gery, and rendering it peculiarly useful, both to the student and practitioner. 



The labors of the Englich translator have been so numerous and important, that there is but little which 

 remains to be supplied by tlie American editor. Dr. G. W. Norris has consented, however, to superintend 

 the passage of the workj through the press, and supply whatever may have been omitted in relation to the 

 Surgical I/iterature of this country. 



The Medical Press and profession, both in England and in this country, have joined in 

 praise of this great work,as being more complete than any other, and as affording a complete 

 library of reference, equally suited to the practitioner and to the student. 



" We strongly recommend all surgical practitioners and students, who have not yet looked into this work, 

 to provide themselves with it without delay, and study its pages diligently and deliberately." — The Edin- 

 burgh Medical and Surgical Journal. 



'■Judging from a single number only of this work, we have no hesitation in saying that, if the remaining 

 portions correspond at all with the first, it will be by far the most complete and scientific System of Surgery 

 in the English language. We have, indeed, seen no work which so nearly comes up to our idea of what 

 such a production sliould be, both as a practical guide and as a work of reference, as this ; and the fact that 

 it lias passed through six editions in Germany, and been translated into seven languages, is sufticiently.con- 

 viucing proof of its value. It is methodical and concise, clear and accurate, omitting all minor details and 

 fruitless speculations, it gives us all the information we want in the shortest and simplest form." — The New 

 York Journal of Medicine. 



'• Nor do these parts, in any degree, fall short of their predecessors, in the copiousness and value of their 

 details. The work certainly forms an almost unique curiosity in medical literature, in the fact that the 

 notes occupy a larger poruoii of the volume than the original matter, an arrangement whicli is constantly 

 appearing to render the text subsidiary to its illustrations. Still this singularity of manner does not at all 

 detract I'roiu the value of the matter thus disposed."— T/je London Medical Gazette. 



■■ This work has long been tiie chief text-book on Surgery in the principal schools of Germany, and the 

 publication of five editions of it in the original and of translations into no less than eight foreign languages, 

 shows the high estimation in which it is iield. As a systematic work on Surgery it has merits of a high order. 

 It is methodical and concise — and on the vi^hole clear and accurate. The most necessary information is 

 conveyed in the shortest and simplest form. Minor details and fruitless speculations are avoided. It is in 

 fact, essentially a practical book. This work was first published nearly twenty years ago, and its solid and 

 permanent reputation has no doubt led Mr. South to undertake the present translation of the latest edition 

 of it, which, we are informed, is still passing through the press in Germany. AVe should have felt at a loss 

 to select any one better qualified for the task thajj tlw translator of Otto's Compendium of Human and Com- 

 parative Pathologioal Anatomy— a surgeon to a large hospital whose industry and opportunities have 

 enabled him lo keep pace -with the improvements of his time.'' — Tlie Medico-Chirurgical Revieiv. 



'• Although Great Britain can boast of some of the most skillful surgeons, both among.her past and her present 

 j)rofes.sorsof that iiranch of medical scieiice.no work professing lobe a complete system of .Surgery has been 

 published in the British dominions since that of Benjamin Bell, now more than half a century old. 



"This omission in English medical literature is fully and satisfactorily supplied by the translation of Profes- 

 sor Chelius's System of Surgery by agentlemau excellently filted for the task, both by his extensive reading, 

 and the opportunities of practical experience which he has enjoyed lor years as surgeon to one of our largest 

 metropolitan hospitals. The fact of Professor Chelius's work having been translated into seven languages is 

 sufficient proof of the estimation in which it is held by our continental brethren, and the English Edition, 

 now in course of iniblication, loses none of the value of the original (romthe treatment received at the hands 

 of its translator. The notes and additions of Profes.sor South are numerous, and contain the opinions result- 

 ing t'rom his vast experience, and from that of his colleague.'' — The Medical Times. 



'•It ably maintains the character formerly given, of being the (most learned and complete systematic 

 treatise now extant. Tiie descriptions of surgical diseases, and indeed the whole of the pathological deparl- 

 menl. are mo.st valuable." — The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal. 



CC/" Per.son.s wishi)ig this work .-^ent to them by mail, in parts, can remit Ten Dollars, for 

 which a set M'ill be sent by the publishers, free of postage, together with a copy of "The 

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