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BLANCHARD & LEA'S MEDICAL 



MEIGS (CHARLES D.), M. D., 

 Professor of Obstetrics, &c. in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. 



ON THE NATURE, SIGNS, AND TREATMENT OF CHILDBED 



FEVER. In a Series of Letters addressed to the Students of his Class. In one handsome 

 octavo volume, of three hundred and sixty-five pages. (Now Ready.) 



BY THE SAME AUTHOR. 



WOMAN: HER DISEASES AND THEIR REMEDIES. A Series of Lee- 



tures to his Class. Third and Improved edition. In one large and beautifully printed octavo 



volume. (Just Issued. Revised and enlarged to 1854.) 



The gratifying appreciation of his labors, as evinced by the exhaustion of two large impressions 

 ef this work within a few years, has not been lost upon the author, who has endeavored in every 

 way fo render it worthy of the favor with which it has been received. The opportunity thus 

 afforded for a second revision has been improved, and the work is now presented as in every way 

 superior to its predecessors, additions and alterations having been made whenever the advance of 

 science has rendered them desirable. The typographical execution of the work will also be found 

 to have undergone a similar improvement and the work is now confidently presented as in every 

 way worthy the position it has acquired as the standard American text-book on the Diseases oit 

 Females. 



It contains a vast amount of practical knowledge, 

 by one who has accurately observed and retained 

 the experience of many years, and who tells the re- 

 sult in a free, familiar, and pleasant manner. Dub- 

 lin Quarterly Journal. 



There is an off-hand fervor, a glow, and a warm- 

 heartedness infecting the effort of Dr. Meigs, which 

 is entirely captivating, and which absolutely hur- 

 ries the reader through from beginning to end. Be- 

 sides, the book teems with solid instruction, and 

 it shows the very highest evidence of ability, viz., 

 the clearness with which the information is pre- 

 sented. We know of no better test of one's under- 

 standing a subject than the evidence of the power 

 of lucidly explaining it. The most elementary, as 

 well as the obscurest subjects, under the pencil of 

 Prof. Meigs, are isolated and made to stand out in 

 such bold relief, as to produce distinct impressions 

 upon the mind and memory of the reader. The 

 Charleston Med. Journal. 



Professor Meigs has enlarged and amended this 

 great work, for such it unquestionably is, having 

 passed the ordeal of criticism at home and abroad, 

 but been improved thereby ; for in this new edition 

 the author has introduced real improvements, and 

 increased the value and utility of the book ilfn- 

 measurably. It presents so many novel, bright, 

 and sparkling thoughts; such an exuberance of new 

 ideas on almost every page, that we confess our- 

 selves to have become enamored with the book 

 and its author ; and cannot withhold our congratu- 

 lations from our Philadelphia confreres, that such a 

 teacher is in their service. We regret that our 

 limits will not allow of a more extended notice of 

 this work, but must content ourselves with thus 

 commending it as worthy of diligent perusal by 

 physicians as well as students, who are seeking to 

 be thoroughly instructed in the important practical 

 subjects of which it treats. N. Y. Med. Gazette. 



BY THE SAME AUTHOR. 



OBSTETRICS : THE SCIENCE AND THE ART. Second edition, revised 



and improved. With one hundred and thirty-one illustrations. In one beautifully printed octavo 

 volume, of seven hundred and fifty-two large pages. (Lately Published.} 



The rapid demand for a second edition of this work is a sufficient evidence that it has supplied 

 a desideratum of the profession, notwithstanding the numerous treatises on the same subject which 

 have appeared within the last few years. Adopting a system of his own, the author has combined 

 the leading principles of his interesting and difficult subject, with a thorough exposition of its rules 

 of practice, presenting the results of long and extensive experience and of familiar acquaintance 

 with all the modern writers on this department of medicine. As an American Treatise on Mid- 

 wifery, which has at once assumed the position of a classic, it possesses peculiar claims to the at- 

 tention and study of the practitioner and student, while the numerous alterations and revisions 

 which it has undergone in the present edition are shown by the great enlargement of the work, 

 which is not only increased as to the size of the page, but also in the number. Among other addi- 

 tions may be mentioned 



A NEW AND IMPORTANT CHAPTER ON "CHILDBED FEVER." 



BY THE SAME AUTHOR. (Now Ready.) 



A TREATISE ON ACUTE AND CHRONIC DISEASES OF THE NECK 



OF THE UTERUS. With numerous plates, drawn and colored from nature in the highest 

 style of art. In one handsome octavo volume, extra cloth. 



The object of the author in this work has been to present in a small compass the practical results 

 of his long experience in this important and distressing class of diseases. The great changes intro- 

 duced into practice, and the accessions to our knowledge on the subject, within the last few years, 

 resulting from the use of the metroscope, brings within the ordinary practice of every physician 

 numerous cases which were formerly regarded as incurable, and renders of great value a work like 

 the present combining practical directions for diagnosis and treatment with an ample series of illus- 

 trations, copied accurately from colored drawings made by the author, after nature. No such accu- 

 rate delineations of the pathology of the neck of the uterus have heretofore been given, requiring, 

 as they do the rare combination of physician nnd artist, and their paramount importance to lot; 

 physician in whose practice such cases are frequent, is too evident to be dwelt upon, while in 

 artistic execution they are far in advance of anything of the kind as yet produced in this country. 



BY THE SAME AUTHOR. 



OBSERVATIONS ON CERTAIN OF THE DISEASES 



CHILDREN. In one handsome octavo volume, of 214 pages. 



OF YOUNG 



