THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, 



OR A 



TREATISE ON SPECIAL PATHOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS. 



BY ROBLEY DUNGLISON, M.D., 



PROFESSOR OF THE INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE, ETC. IN THE JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE, 



PHILADELPHIA, LECTURER ON CLINICAL MEDICINE, AND ATTENDING 



PHYSICIAN AT THE PHILADELPHIA HOSPITAL, ETC. 



CONTAINING 



THE DISEASES OF THE ALIMENTARY CANAL, 

 THE DISEASES OF THE CIRCULATORY APPARATUS, 



DISEASES OF THE GLANDULAR ORGANS, 

 DISEASES OF THE ORGANS OF THE SENSES, 



DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS, 

 DISEASES OF THE GLANDIFORM GANGLIONS, 



DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, 



DISEASES OF THE ORGANS OF REPRODUCTION, 



DISEASES INVOLVING VARIOUS ORGANS, 



&x. &c. 



In Two Volumes Octavo. 



"This new work, from the press of Lea and Blanchard, forms a valuable addition to our Medical 

 Literature, and fills up avoid in our libraries, which the numerous improvements in medical science 

 had long since created ; and we congratulate the profession in being put in possession of a work on the 

 practice of medicine, in which not only are found the latest and most approved views of Pathology, 

 united with the soundest practical deductions, but which is here interspersed throughout with the 

 most valuable recipes for administering the various medicines suggested. 



"The object of the author has been, as he states, to incorporate the improvements and modifications 

 incessantly taking place in the departments of Pathology and Therapeutics, so as to furnish those to 

 whom the different general treatises, monographs and periodicals are not accessible, with the means 

 of appreciating their existing condition. The examination we have made of the work satisfies us 

 that in this aim he has been eminently successful, and that he has presented to the profession the 

 most complete work on the Practice of Medicine to be found in any language for we know of no 

 similar work in which is embodied such an amount of scientific and practical information. INo one, 

 therefore, who desires to keep himself au nouveau du siecle, will fail to include in his collection a 

 work which thus brings before him the latest views of subjects, in which scientific investigations 

 have lately wrought so many changes. 



"This is not the place of course, to speak in detail of the merits of such a work. We may there- 

 fore say that the two volumes before us give evidence throughout of extensive research, deep reflec- 

 tion, and abilities for which, indeed, the author's name is always a guarantee; and that we can con- 

 fidently recommend them to all who desire to keep pace with the progress of medical science." 

 Bait. Pat. 



" We hail the appearance of this work, which has just been issued from the prolific press of 

 Messrs. Lea &, Blanchard, of Philadelphia, with no ordinary degree of pleasure. Compri.-ed in two 

 large and closely printed volumes, it exhibits a more full, accurate, and comprehensive digest of the 

 existing state of medicine than any other treatise with which we are acquainted in the English 

 language. It discusses many topics some of them of great practical importance, whuch are 

 entirely omitted in the writings of Eberle, Dewees, Ilosack, Graves, Stokes, Mclntosh, and 

 Gregory ; and it cannot fail, therefore, to be of great value, not onlv to the student, but to the 

 practitioner, as it affords him ready access to information of which he stands in daily need in the 

 exercise of his profession, It has been the desire of the author, well-known as one of the most 

 abundant writers of the age, to render his work strictly practical ; and to this end he has been 

 induced, whenever opportunity offered, to incorporate the results of his own experience with that 

 of his scientific brethren in America and Europe. To the former, ample justice seems to have been 

 done throughout. We believe this constitutes the seventh work which Professor Dunglison has 

 published within the last ten years ; and, when we reflect upon the large amount of labour and 

 reflection which must have been necessary in their preparation, it is amazing how he could have 

 accomplished so much in so short a time." Louisville Journal. 



" As a system of Practical Medicine, this work will meet a cordial welcome from all who know 

 the untiring assiduity and laborious habits in the pursuit of knowledge, of the author, who has 

 already presented the public with numerous excellent works, bearing the stamp of originality as 

 well as of profound research. 



" The object of Professor Dunglison is to present, in as compact a form as was consistent with 

 accuracy and perspicuity, a history of all the affections which properly come under the care pt 

 the physician, with all the improvements and modifications which have taken place latterly in 

 Pathology and Therapeutics, so as to enable the student and practitioner ' to appreciate their present 

 condition,' and to avail themselves of knowledge scattered about in various journals and mono- 

 graphs. 



"This task has been faithfully executed, and the work maybe recommended as a good class-book, 

 in which the soundness of the author's views and his freedom from exclusive opinions have enabled 

 him to select from the experience of others those facts and views, which, together with his own 

 experience, were to furnish the proper data for correct descriptions and for sound practical deduc- 

 tions." New York American, 



