

LEA AND BLANCHARD 



HAVE JUST PUBLISHED 



A NEW AND CHEAPER EDITION 



OP 



THE LIBRARY 



OF 



PRACTICAL MEDICINE: 



CONDUCTED BY 



ALEXANDER TWEEDIE, M.D., F.R.S. 



PHYSICIAN TO THE LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL, AND TO THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL ; EDITOR OF THE 

 CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE, ETC. 



WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF NUMEROUS CONTRIBUTORS. 



THE WHOLE REVISED, WITH NOTES AND ADDITIONS, 

 BY 



W. W. GERHARD, M.D., 



LECTURER ON CLINICAL MEDICINE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, PHYSICIAN TO 

 THE PHILADELPHIA HOSPITAL, BLOCKLEY, ETC. 



The whole Five Volumes of the former edition, now complete in Three large 



Volumes, 



AND FOR SALE BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. 



The design of this work is to supply the want, generally admitted to exist in the medical 

 literature of Great Britain, of a comprehensive System of Medicine, embodying a condensed, 

 yet ample, view of the present state of the science. The desideratum is more especially felt by 

 the Medical Student, and by many Members of the Profession, who, from their avocations and 

 other circumstances, have not the opportunity of keeping pace with the more recent improve- 

 ments in the most interesting and useful branch of human knowledge. To supply this defi- 

 ciency, is the object of THE LIBRARY OF MEDICINE ; and the Editor expresses the hope, that 

 with the assistance with which he has been favoured by Contributors, (many of great eminence, 

 and all favourably known to the Public,) he has been able to produce a work, which will form 

 a Library of General Reference on Theoretical and Practical Medicine, as well as a Series of 

 Text Books for the Medical Student. 



It is intended to treat of each Department, or Division of Medicine, each SERIES forming a 

 complete Work on the subject treated of, which may be purchased separately at a very mode- 

 rate price, or it will constitute a part of THE LIBRARY OF MEDICINE. This arrangement is 

 made with the view of giving those persons who may wish to possess ONE OR MORE OF THE 

 SERIES, the opportunity of purchasing such Volumes only, and thus avoid the inconvenience 

 of making a larger addition to their stock of Books than their wants or circumstances may 

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 the arrangements, it is confidently hoped that the want of uniformity noticed in works of a 

 similar kind, has been obviated, at least, as far as is compatible with the execution of the work 

 by a numerous body of united Authors. 



