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BLANCHARD & LEA'S MEDICAL 



(Now Complete.) 



PEREIRA (JONATHAN), M. D., F. R. S., AND L. S. 

 THE ELEMENTS OF MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS. 



Third American edition, enlarged and improved by the author; including Notices of most of the 

 Medicinal Substances in use in the civilized world, and forming an Encyclopaedia of Materia 

 Medica. Edited, with Additions, by JOSEPH CARSON, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica and 

 Pharmacy in the University of Pennsylvania. In two very large octavo volumes of 2100 page*, 

 on small type, with over four hundred and fifty illustrations. 

 VOLUME I. Lately issued, containing the Inorganic Materia Medica, over 800 pages, with 145 



illustrations. 



VOLUME II. Now ready, embraces the Organic Materia Medica, and forms a very large octavo 

 volume of 1250 pages, with two plates and three hundred handsome wood-cuts. 

 The present edition of this valuable and standard work will enhance in every respect its well- 

 deserved reputation. The care bestowed upon its revision by the author may be estimated by the 

 fact that its size has been increased by about five hundred pages. These additions have extended 

 to every portion of the work, and embrace not only the materials afforded by the recent editions of 

 the pharmacopoeias, but also all the important information accessible to the care and industry of 

 the author in treatises, essays, memoirs, monographs, and from correspondents in various parts of 

 the globe. In this manner the work comprises the most recent and reliable information respecting 

 all the articles of the Materia Medica, their natural and commercial history, chemical and thera- 

 peutical properties, preparation, uses, doses, and modes of administration, brought up to the present 

 time, with a completeness not to be met with elsewhere. A considerable portion of the work 

 which preceded the remainder in London, has also enjoyed the advantage of a further revision by 

 the author expressly for this country, and in addition to this the editor, Professor Carson, has made 

 whatever additions appeared desirable to adapt it thoroughly to the U. S. Pharmacopoeia, and to 

 the wants of the American profession. An equal improvement will likewise be observable in every 

 department of its mechanical execution. It is printed from new type, on good white paper, with a 

 greatly extended and improved series of illustrations. 



Gentlemen who have the first volume are recommended to complete their copies without delay. 

 The first volume will no longer be sold separate. 

 When we remember that Philology, Natural His- I Medica, although completed under the supervision of 



tory, Botany, Chemistry, Physics, and the Micro- 

 scope, are all brought forward to elucidate the sub- 

 ject, one cannot fail to see that the reader has here 

 a work worthy of the name of an encyclopedia of 

 Materia Medica. Our own opinion of its merits is 

 that of its editors, and also that of the whole profes- 

 sion, both of this and foreign countries namely, 

 " that in copiousness of details, in extent, variety, 

 and accuracy of information, and in lucid explana- 

 tion of difficult and recondite subjects, it surpasses 

 all other works on Materia Medica hitherto pub- 

 lished." We cannot close this notice without allud- 

 ing to the special additions of the American editor, 

 which pertain to the prominent vegetable produc- 

 tions of this country, and to the directions of the 

 United States Pharmacopoeia, in connection with all 

 the articles contained in the volume which are re- 

 ferred to by it. The illustrations have been increased, 

 and this edition by Dr. Carson cannot well be re- 

 garded in any other light than that of a treasure 

 which should be found in the library of every physi- 

 cian. New York Journal of Medical and Collateral 

 Science, March, 1854. 



The third edition of his " Elements of Materia 



others, is by far the most elaborate treatise in the 

 English language, and will, while medical literature 

 is cherished, continue a monument alike honorable 

 to his genius, as to his learning and industry. 

 American Journal of Pharmacy, March, 1854. 



The work, in its present shape, and so far as can 

 be judged from the portion before the public, forms 

 the most comprehensive and complete treatise on 

 materia medica extant in the English language. 

 Dr. Pereira has been at great pains to introduce 

 into his work, not only all the information on th-a 

 natural, chemical, and commercial history of medi- 

 cines, which might be serviceable to the - r 



and surgeon, but whatever might enable his read- 

 ers to understand thoroughly the mode of prepar- 

 ing and manufacturing various articles employed 

 either for preparing medicines, or for certain pur- 

 poses in the arts connected with materia medica 

 and the practice of medicine. The accounts of the 

 physiological and therapeutic effects of remedies awj 

 given with great clearness and accuracy, and in a 

 manner calculated to interest as well as instruct 

 the reader. The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical 

 Journal. 





PEASELEE (E. R.), M. D., 



Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in Dartmouth College, &c. 



HUMAN HISTOLOGY, in its applications to Physiology and General Pathology; 



designed as a Text-Book for Medical Students. With numerous illustrations. In one handsome 



royal 12mo. volume. (Preparing.') 



The subject of this work is one, the growing importance of which, as the basis of Anatomy and 

 Physiology, demands for it a separate volume. The book will therefore supply an acknowledged 

 deficiency in medical text-books, while the name of the author, and his experience as a teacher for 

 the last thirteen years, is a guarantee that it will be thoroughly adapted to the use of the student. 



PIRRIE (WILLIAM), F. R. S. E., 



Professor of Surgery in the University of Aberdeen. 



THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SURGERY. Edited by JOHN 



NEILL, M. D., Demonstrator of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, Surgeon to the 

 Pennsylvania Hospital, &c. In one very handsome octavo volume, of ISO pages, with 316 illus- 

 trations. (Just Issued.) 



We know of no other surgical work of a reason- 

 able size, wherein there is so much theory and prac- 

 tice, or where subjects are more soundly or clearly 

 taught. The Stethoscope. 



There is scarcely a disease of the bone or soft 

 parts, fracture, or dislocation, that is not illustrated 

 by accurate wood-engravings. Then, again, every 

 instrument employed by the surgeon is thus repre- 

 sented. These engravings are not only correct, but 

 really beautiful, snowing the astonishing degree of 

 perfection to which the art of wood-engraving has 



arrived. Prof. Pirrie, in the work before us, has 

 elaborately discussed the principles of surgery, and 

 a safe and effectual practice predicated upon them. 

 Perhaps no work upon this subject heretofore issued 

 is BO full upon the science of the art of surgery. 

 Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery. 



One of the best treatises on surgery in the English 

 language. Canada Med. Journal. 



Our impression is, that, as a manual for students. 

 Pirrie's is the best work extant. Western Med. and 

 Surg. Journal. 



