14 HENRY C. LEA'S PUBLICATIONS (Mat. Ned. and Therapeutics). 



JJEREIRA (JONATHAN], M.D., F.R.S. and L.S. 



MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS; being an Abridg- 

 ment of the late Dr. Pereira's Elements of Materia Medica, arranged in conformity with 

 the British Pharmacopoeia, arfd adapted to the use of Medical Practitioners, Chemists and 

 Druggists, Medical and Pharmaceutical Students, <fcc. By F. J. FARRE, M.D., Senior 

 Physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and London Editor of the British Pharmacopoeia ; 

 assisted by ROBERT BENTLEY, M.R.C.S., Professor of Materia Medica and Botany to the 

 Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain; and by ROBERT WARINGTON, F.R.S., Chemical 

 Operator to the Society of Apothecaries. With numerous additions and references to the 

 United States Pharmacopoeia, by HORATIO C. WOOD, M.D., Professor of Botany in the 

 University of Pennsylvania. In one large and handsome octavo volume of 1040 closely 

 printed pages, with 236 illustrations, extra cloth, $7 00; leather, raised bands, $8 00. 

 (Now Ready.) 



The task of the American editor has evidently been 



uo sinecure, for not only has he given to us all that 



contained in the abridgment useful for our pur- 



pceia, none will be more acceptable to the student 

 and practitioner than the present. Pereira's Materia 

 Medica had long ago asserted for itself the position of 



poses, but by a careful and judicious embodiment of I being the most complete work on the subject in 

 over a hundred new remedies has increased the size | English language. But its very completeness stood 



in the way of its success. Except in the way of refer- 

 ence, or to tho-e who made a special study of Matevia, 

 Medica, Dr. Pereira's work was to'o full, and its pe- 

 rusal required an amount of time which few had at 

 their disposal. Dr Farre has very j ndiciou *1 y H va i fod 



of the former work fully one-third, besides adding 

 many new illustrations, some of which are original. 

 We unhesitatingly say that by so doing he has pro- 

 portionately increased the value, not only of the con- 

 densed edition, but has extended the applicability of 

 the great original, and has placed his medical coi 



trymen under lasting obligations to him. The Ame- 

 rican physician now has all that is needed in the 



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shape of a complete treatise on inateria medica, and 

 the medical student has a text-book which, for prac- 

 tical utility and intrinsic worth, stands unparalleled. 

 Although of considerable size, it is none too large for 

 the purposes for which it has been intended, and every 

 medical man should, iu justice to himself, spare a j 

 place for it upon his book-shelf, resting assured that 

 the more he consults it the better he will be satisfied 

 of its excellence.^. . Med. Record, Nov. 15, 186(5. 



It will fill a place which no other work can occupy 

 in the library of the physician, student, and apothe- 

 cary. Boston Med. and Surg. Journal, Nov. S, 1SG6. 

 We have here presented, in a volume of a thousand 

 pages, that which we sincerely believe the best work 

 glish language. No phy- 

 cau 



himself of the opportunity of the publication of the 

 new Pharmacopoeia, by bringing out atKabridged edi- 

 tion of the great work. This edition of Pcreiva is by 



and make anything like a proper use of it, without 

 being amply rewarded for his outlay. The Cincin- 

 nati Journal of Medicine, November, 1866. 



The American editor can very justly say, then, that 

 "his office has been no sinecure." The result, how- 

 ever, of the labors of the different gentlemen engaged 

 on the work has been to give us a compendium that 

 is admirably adapted for the wants and necessities of 

 the student. We willingly concede to the American 

 editor that we have rarely examined a work that, on 

 the whole, is more carefully and laboriously edited 

 than this ; or, we may add, that is more improved in 

 the process of editing. New York Medical Journal, 

 December, 1866. 



Of the many works on Materia Medica which have 

 appeared since the issuing of the British Pharmaco- 



no means a mere abridged re-issue, but contains ma- 

 ny improvements, both in the descriptive and thera- 

 peutical departments. We can recommend it as a 

 very excellent and reliable text-book. Edinburgh 

 Med. Journal, February, 1866. 



Dr. Farre has conferred on both students and prac- 

 titioners a real boon in presenting in a comprehensive 

 form, and within the limits of a moderate octavo 

 volume, the more important and more practical por- 

 tions of his predecessor's great work That Dr. Farre 

 has spared no endeavor to perform his task iu c^cry 

 department, in the most perfect manner, may be a,., 

 reudy inferred from the fact of his having associated 

 with himself in the work, the two distinguished gen- 

 v , tlernen whose names appear with his own upon the 



puTchasf thi^book; i tttle-Ie._DWte Quarterly Journal, May, 1866. 



With their able co-operation he has succeeded not 

 only iu reducing Dr. Pereira's work to a convenient 

 size, but in producing a very reliable and iusirnctive 

 work on the authoi-ized British Materia Medica. 

 British Mnlical Journal, December 2, 1S6V>. 



Only 592 pages, while Pereira's. original volumes 

 included 2000, and yet the results of many years' ad- 

 ditional research in pharmacology and therapeutics 

 are embodied in the new edition. Uuqwestionnb]y 

 Dr. Farre has conferred a great benefit upon medical 

 students and practitioners. And in both respects we 

 think he has acted very judiciously. And the work 

 is now condensed brought fully into accordance wiih 

 the pharmacological opinions in vogue, and can be 

 used with great advantage as a handbook fwr exami- 

 nations. The Lancet, December, 1S65. 



S1ARSON (JOSEPH], M.D., 



Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy in the University of Pennsylvania, *<?. 



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