HENRY C. LEA'S PUBLICATIONS (Surgery). 



QROSS (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 Thirteen Hundred Engravings. Fourth edition, 

 carefully revised, and improved. In two large and beautifully printed royal octavo volumes 

 of 2200 pages, strongly bound in leather, with raised bands. $15 00. 



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. Though 

 but little over six years have elapsed since its first publication, it has already reached its fourth 

 edition, while the care of the author in its revision and correction has kept it in a constantly im- 

 proved shape. By the use of a close, though very legible type, an unusually large amount of 

 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. 



It must long remain the most comprehensive work 

 on this important part of medicine. Boston Medical 

 and Surgical Journal, March 23, 1S65. 



We have compared it with most of our standard 

 works, such as those of Erich sen, Miller, Fergusson, 

 Syme, and others, and we must, in justice to our 

 author, award it the pre-eminence. As a work, com- 

 plete in almost every detail, no matter how min-ute 

 or trifling, and embracing every subject known in 

 the principles and practice of surgery, we believe it 

 stands without a rival. Dr. Gross, in his preface, re- 

 marks "mv aim has been to embrace the whole do- 



main of surgery, 



to allot to every subject its 



tioner shall not seek in vain for what they desire. 

 San Francisco Med. Press, Jan. 1S65. 



Open it where we may, we find sound practical in- 

 formation conveyed in plain language. This book is 

 no mere provincial or even national system of sur- 

 gery, but a work which, while very largely indebted 

 to the past, has a strong claim on the grati'ude of the 

 future of surgical science. Edinburgh Med. Journal, 

 Jan. 1865. 



A glance at the work is sufficient to show ttyat the 

 author and publisher have spared no labor in making 

 it the most complete "System of Surgery" ever pub- 

 lished in any country.^. Louis Med. and Surg. 

 Journal, April, 1865. 



The third opportunity is now offered during our 

 editorial life to review, or rather to indorse and re- 



commend 



great American work on Surgery. 



legitimate claim to notice;" and, we assure our 

 readers, he has kept his word. It is a work which 

 we can most confidently recommend to our brethren, 

 for its utility is becoming the more evident the longer 

 it is upon the shelves of our library. Canada Med. 

 Journal, September, 1865. 



The first two editions of Professor Gross' System of 

 Surgery are so well known to the profession, and so 

 highly prized, that it would be idle for us to speak in 

 praise of this work. Chicago Medical Journal, 

 September, 1865. 



We gladly indorse the favorable recommendation 

 of the work, both as regards matter and style, which 

 we made when noticing its first appearance. British 

 and Foreign Medico- Chirurgical Review, Oct. 1865. 



The most complete work that has yet issued from 

 the press on the science and practice of surgery. 

 London Lancet. 



This system of surgery is, we predict, destined to 

 take a commanding position in our surgical litera- 

 ture, and be the crowning glory of the author's well 

 earned fame. As au authority on general surgical 

 subjects, this work is long to occupy a pre-eminent 

 place, not only at home, but abroad. We have no 

 hesitation in pronouncing it without a rival in our 

 language, and equal to the best systems of surgery in 

 any language. N. Y. Med. Journal. 



Not only by far the best text-book on the subject, 

 as a whole, within the reach of American students, 

 but one which will be much more than ever likely 

 to be resorted to and. regarded as a high authority 

 abroad. Am. Journal Med. Sciences, Jan. 1865. 



The work contains everything, minor and major, 

 operative and diagnostic, including mensuration and 

 examination, venereal diseases, and uterine manipu- 

 lations and operations. It is a complete Thesaurus 

 of modern tmrgery, where the student and practi- 



DF THE SAME AUTHOR. 



A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE DISEASES, INJURIES, 



AND MALFORMATIONS OF THE URINARY BLADDER, THE PROSTATE GLAND, 

 AND THE URETHRA. Second edition, revised and much enlarged, with one hundred 

 and eighty-four illustrations. In one large and very handsome octavo volume, of over nine 

 hundred pages, extra cloth. $4 00. 

 Whoever will peruse the vast amount of valuable 



practical information it contains will, we think, agree 



with us, that there is no work in the English Ian- 



Upon this last edition a great amount of labor has 

 been expended, though to all others except the author 

 the work was regarded in its previous editions as so 

 full and complete as to be hardly capable of improve- 

 ment. Every chapter has been revised ; the text aug- 

 mented by nearly two hundred pages, and a con- 

 siderable number of wood-cuts have been introduced. 

 Many portions have been entirely re-written, and tho 

 additions made to the text are principally of a prac- 

 tical character. . This comprehensive treatise upon 

 surgery has undergone revisions and enlargements, 

 keeping pace with the progress of the art and science 

 of surgery, so that whoever is in possession of this 

 work may consult its pages upon any topic embraced 

 within the scope of its department, and rest satisfied 

 that its teaching is fully up to the present standard 

 of surgical knowledge. It is also so comprehensive 

 that it may truthfully be said to embrace all that is 

 actually known, that is really of any value in the 

 diagnosis and treatment of surgical diseases and acci- 

 dents. Wherever illustration will add clearness to the 

 subject, or make better or more lasting impression, it 

 is not wanting; in this respect the work is eminently 

 superior. Buffalo Med. Journal, Dec. 1864. 



A system of surgery which we think unrivalled la 

 our language, and which will indelibly associate his 

 name with surgical science. And what, in our opin- 

 ion, enhances the value of the work is that, while the 

 practising surgeon will find all that he requires in it, 

 it is at the same time one of the most valuable trea- 

 tises which can be put into the hands of the student 

 seeking to know the principles and practice of this 

 branch of the profession which he designs subse- 

 quently to follow. The Brit. Am. Journ., Montreal. 



guage which can make any just pretensions to be its 

 equal. N. Y. Journal of Medicine. 



DY THE SAME AUTHOR. 



A PRACTICAL 



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 pp. 468. $2 75. 



TREATISE ON FOREIGN BODIES IN THE 



In one handsome octavo volume, extra cloth, with illustrations. 



