JBLANCHARD & LEA'S MEDICAL 



CARPENTER (WILLIAM B.), M . D., F. R. S., &.C., 



Examiner in Physiology and Comparative Anatomy in the University of London. 



PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY; with their chief applications t 

 Psychology, Pathology, Therapeutics, Hygiene, and Forensic Medicine. Fifth American, from 

 the fourth and enlarged London edition. With three hundred and fourteen illustrations. Edited, 

 with additions, by FRANCIS GURNEY SMITH, M. D., Professor of the Institutes of Medicine in the 

 Pennsylvania Medical College, &c. In one very large and beautiful octavo volume, of about 1100 

 large pages, handsomely printed and strongly bound in leather, with raised bands. New edition. 

 (Lately Issued.) 



The most complete work on the science in our 

 language. Am. Med. Journal. 



The most complete exposition of physiology which 

 any language can at present give. Brit, and For. 

 Med.-Chirurg. Review. 



We have thus adverted to some of the leading 

 "additions and alterations," which have been in- 

 troduced by the author into this edition of his phy- 

 siology. These will be found, however, very far to 

 exceed the ordinary limits of a new edition, " the 

 old materials' having been incorporated with the 

 new, rather than the new with the old." It now 

 certainly presents the most complete treatise on the 

 subject within the reach of the American reader ; 

 and while, for availability as a text-book, we may 

 perhaps regret its growth in bulk, we are sure that 

 tiie student of physiology will feel the impossibility 

 of presenting a thorough digest of the facts of the 

 science within a more limited compass. Medical 

 Examiner. 



The greatest, the most reliable, and the best book 

 on the subject which we know of in the English 

 language. Stethoscope. 



The most complete work now extant in oar lan- 

 guage. N. O. Med. Register. 



The changes are too numerous to admit of an ex- 

 tended notice in this place. At every point where 

 the recent diligent labors of organic chemists and 

 micrographers have furnished interesting and valu- 

 able facts, they have been appropriated, and no pains 

 have been spared, in so incorporating and arranging 

 them that the work may constitute one harmonious 

 system. Southern Med. and Surg. Journal. 



The best text-book in the language on this ex- 

 tensive subject. London Med. Times. 



A complete cyclopaedia of this branch of science. 

 N. Y. Med. Times. 



The standard of authority on physiological sub- 

 jects. * * * In the present edition, to particularize 

 the alterations and additions which have been made, 

 would require a review of the whole work, since 

 scarcely a subject has not been revised and altered, 

 added to, or entirely remodelled to adapt it to the 

 present state of the science. Charleston Med. Journ. 



Any reader who desires a treatise on physiology 

 may feel himself entirely safe in ordering this. 

 Western Med. and Surg. Journal. 



From this hasty and imperfect allusion it will be 

 seen by our readers that the alterations and addi- 

 tions to this edition render it almost a new work 

 and we can assure our readers that it is one of the 

 best summaries of the existing facts of physiological 

 science within the reach of the English student and 

 physician. JV. Y. Journal of Medicine. 



The profession of this country, and perhaps also 

 of Europe, have anxiously and for some time awaited 

 the announcement of this new edition of Carpenter's 

 Human Physiology. His former editions have for 

 many years been almost the only text-book on Phy- 

 siology in all our medical schools, and its circula- 

 tion among the profession has been unsurpassed by 

 any work in any department of medical science. 



it is quite unnecessary for us to speak of this 

 work as its merits would justify. The mere an- 

 nouncement of its appearance will afford the highest 

 pleasure to every student of Physiology, while its 

 perusal will be of infinite service in advancing 

 physiological science. Ohio Med. and Snrg. Journ. 



BY THE SAME AUTHOR. (Now Ready.) 



PRINCIPLES OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY. New American, from 



the Fourth and Revised London edition. In one large and handsome octavo volume, with over 

 three hundred beautiful illustrations. 



The delay which has existed in the appearance of this work has been caused by the very thorough 

 revision and remodelling which it has undergone at the hands of the author, and the large number 

 of new illustrations which have been prepared for it. It will, therefore, be found almost a new 

 work, and fully up to the day in every department of the subject, rendering it a reliable text-book 

 for all students engaged in this branch of science. Every effort has been made to render its typo- 

 graphical finish and mechanical execution worthy of its exalted reputation, and creditable to the 

 mechanical arts of this country. A few notices of the last edition are appended. 



Without pretending to it, it is an Encyclopedia of critical, and unprejudiced view of those labors, and 

 the subject, accurate and complete in all respects 

 a truthful reflection of the advanced state at which 

 the science has now arrived. Dublin Quarterly 

 Journal of Medical Science. 



A truly magnificent work in itself a perfect phy- 

 siological study. Ranking^s Abstract. 



This work stands without its fellow. It is one 

 few men in Europe could have undertaken ; it is one 

 no man, we believe, could have brought to so suc- 

 cessful an issue as Dr. Carpenter. It required for 

 its production a physiologist at once deeply read in 

 the labors of others, capable of taking a general, 



of combining the varied, heterogeneous materials at 

 his disposal, so as to form an harmonious whole. 

 We feel that this abstract can give the reader a very 

 imperfect idea of the fulness of this work, and no 

 idea of its unity, of the admirable manner in which 

 material has been brought, from the most various 

 sources, to conduce to its completeness, of the lucid- 

 ity of the reasoning it contains, or of the clearness 

 of language in whicli the whole is clothed. Not the 

 profession only, but the scientific world at large. 



this 



must feel deeply indebted to Dr. Carpenter for 

 great work. It must, indeed, add largely even t<* 

 his high reputation. Medical Times. 



BY THE SAME AUTHOR. (Preparing.) 



THE MICROSCOPE AND ITS REVELATIONS. In one handsome volume ; 



beautifully illustrated with plates and wood-cuts. 



BY THE SAME AUTHOR. (Preparing.) 



GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY. In one large and very handsome octavo volume, 

 with several hundred illustrations. 



The subject of general physiology having been omitted in the last edition oi'the author's "Com- 

 parative Physiology," he has undertaken to prepare a volume which .shall present it more tho- 

 roughly and fully than has yet been attempted, and which may be regarded as an introduction to 

 his other works. 



