Nothnagel's Encyclopedia 



OF 



PRACTICAL MEDICINE. 



Edited by ALFRED STENGEL, M.D., 



Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania ; Visiting 

 Physician to the Pennsylvania Hospital. 



IT is universally acknowledged that the Germans lead the world in Internal Medicine; 

 * and of all the German works on this subject. Nothnagel's " Special Pathology and 

 Therapeutics" is conceded by scholars to be without question the best System of 

 Medicine in existence. So necessary is this book in the study of Internal Medicine 

 that it comes largely to this country in the original German. In view of these facts, 

 Messrs. W. B. Saunders & Company have arranged with the publishers to issue at once 

 an authorized edition of this great encyclopedia of medicine in English. 



For the present a set of some ten or twelve volumes, representing the most practical 

 part of this encyclopedia, and selected with especial thought of the needs of the practical 

 physician, will be published. These volumes will contain the real essence of the entire 

 work, and the purchaser will therefore obtain at less than half the cost the cream of the origi- 

 nal. Later the special and more strictly scientific volumes will be offered from time to time. 



The work will be translated by men possessing thorough knowledge of both English and 

 German, and each volume will be edited by a prominent specialist on the subject to 

 which it is devoted. It will thus be brought thoroughly up to date, and the American edition 

 will be more than a mere translation of the German ; for, in addition to the matter contained 

 in the original, it will represent the very latest views of the leading American special- 

 ists in the various departments of Internal Medicine. The whole System will be under the 

 editorial supervision of Dr. Alfred Stengel, who will select the subjects for the American 

 edition, and will choose the editors of the different volumes. 



Unlike most encyclopedias, the publication of this work will not be extended over a 

 number of years, but five or six volumes will be issued during the coming year, and the 

 remainder of the series at the same rate. Moreover, each volume will be revised to the 

 date of its publication by the American editor. This will obviate the objection that has 

 heretofore existed to systems published in a number of volumes, since the subscriber will 

 receive the completed work while the earlier volumes are still fresh. 



The usual method of publishers, when issuing a work of this kind, has been to compel 

 physicians to take the entire System. This seems to us in many cases to be undesirable. 

 Therefore, in purchasing this encyclopedia, physicians will be given the opportunity of 

 subscribing for the entire System at one time ; but any single volume or any number of 

 volumes may be obtained by those who do not desire the complete series. This latter 

 method, while not so profitable to the publisher, offers to the purchaser many advan- 

 tages which will be appreciated by those who do not care to subscribe for the entire work 

 at one time. 



This American edition of Nothnagel's Encyclopedia will, without question, form the 

 greatest System of Medicine ever produced, and the publishers feel confident that it 

 will meet with general favor in the medical profession. 



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