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BLANCHARD & LEA'S MEDICAL 



WEST (CHARLES), M. D., 



Physician to the Hospital for Sick Children, &c. 



LECTURES ON THE DISEASES OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD. 



Second American, from the Second and Enlarged London edition. In one volume, octavo, of 

 nearly five hundred pages. (Now Ready.) 



From the Preface to the Second Edition. 



In the preparation of the second edition of these Lectures, the whole work has been carefully 

 revised. A few formulae have been introduced and a minute alphabetical index has been appended 

 while additions amounting altogether to fifty pages, have been made, wherever I felt that more 

 extended observation, or more careful reflection had enabled me to supply some of those deficiencies 

 which I am well aware, 'are still far too numerous. The work now contains the result of 640 



observations, and 199 post-mortem examinations, chiefly made among 16,276 children who came 

 )tice during the ten years of my connection with the Children's Infirmary in L.am belli. 



under my not 



We take leave of Dr. West with great respect for 

 his attainments, a due appreciation of his acute 

 powers of observation, and a deep sense of obliga- 

 tion for this valuable contribution to our profes- 

 sional literature. His book is undoubtedly in many 

 respects the best we possess on diseases of children. 

 The extracts we have given will, we hope, satisfy 

 our readers of its value ; and yet in all candor we 

 must say thpt they are even inferior to some other 

 parts, the length of which prohibited our entering 

 upon them. That the book will shortly be in the 

 hands of most of our readers we do not doubt, and it 

 will give us much pleasure if our strong recommend- 

 ation of it may contribute towards the result. The 

 Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science. 



Dr. West has placed the profession under deep ob- 

 ligation by this able, thorough, and finished work 



upon a subject which almost daily taxes to the ut- 

 most the skill of the general practitioner. He has 

 with singular felicity threaded his way through all 

 the tortuous labyrinths of the difficult subject he has 

 undertaken to elucidate, and has in many of the 

 darkest corners left a light, for the benefit of suc- 

 ceeding travellers, which will never be extinguished . 

 Not the least captivating feature in this admirable 

 performance is its easy, conversational style, which 

 acquires force from its very simplicity, and leaves 

 an impression upon the memory, of the truths it 

 conveys, as clear and refreshing as its own purity. 

 The author's position secured him extraordinary fa- 

 cilities for the investigation of children's diseases, 

 and his powers of observation and discrimination 

 have enabled him to make the most of these great 

 advantages. Nashville Medical Journal. 



BY THE SAME AUTHOR. (Now Ready.) 



AN ENQUIRY INTO THE PATHOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF ULCER- 



ATION OF THE OS UTERI. Being the Croonian Lectures for the year 1854. In one neat 

 octavo volume, extra cloth. 



This work will appear in the " Medical News and Library" during the latter portion of 1854, and 

 will be published in a separate form about December. 



WILLIAMS (C. J. B.), M. D., F. R. S., 



Professor of Clinical Medicine in University College, London, &o. 



PRINCIPLES OF MEDICINE; comprising General Pathology and Therapeu- 

 tics, and a brief general view of Etiology, Nosology, Semeiology, Diagnosis, Prognosis, and 

 Hygienics. Edited, with Additions, by MEREDITH CLYMER, M. D. Fourth American, from the 

 last and enlarged London edition. In one octavo volume, of 476 pages. (Now Ready.) 



This new edition has been materially enlarged and brought up by the editor. 



It possesses the strongest claims to the attention of the medical student and practitioner, from 

 the admirable manner in which the various inquiries in the different branches of pathology are 

 investigated, combined, and generalized by an experienced practical physician, and directly applied 

 to the investigation and treatment of disease. EDITOR'S PREFACE. 



The best exposition in our language, or, we be- Few books have proved more useful, or met with 



lieve, in any language, of rational medicine, in its a more ready sale than this, and no practitioner 



present improved and rapidly improving state. should regard his library as complete without it. 



British and Foreign Medico-Chirurg. Review. Ohio Med. and Surg. Journal. 



BY THE SAME AUTHOR. 



A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY 



ORGANS ; including Diseases of the Larynx, Trachea, Lungs, and Pleurae. With numerous 

 Additions and Notes, by M. CLYMER, M. D. With wood-cuts. In one octavo volume, pp. 50S. 



YOUATT (WILLIAM), V. S. 



THE HORSE. A new edition, with numerous illustrations; together with a 

 general history of the Horse; a Dissertation on the American Trotting Horse; how Trained and 

 Jockeyed ; an Account of his Remarkable Performances ; and an Essay on the Ass and the Mule. 

 By J." S. SKINNER, formerly Assistant Postmaster-General, and Editor of the Turf Register. 

 One large octavo volume. 



BY THE SAME AUTHOR. 



THE DOa. Edited by E. J. LEWIS, M. D. With numerous and beautiful 



illustrations. In one very handsome volume, crown Svo., crimson cloth, gilt. 



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