ADVERTISEMENT 



OF 



THE AMERICAN PUBLISHERS TO THEIR NEW EDITION 

 IN THREE VOLUMES. 



The matter embraced in the Three Volumes now presented, was published in London in 

 five separate volumes, and at intervals republished in this country. The rapid sale of these 

 volumes, embracing as they do a History of Practical Medicine, is the best evidence of the 

 favour with which it has been received by the physicians of the United States. Embodying 

 as it does the most recent information on nearly every disease, and written by men who 

 have specially devoted themselves to the study of the disorders which form the subject of 

 their articles, the work is the most valuable for reference within the reach of a practitioner. 

 The arrangement of the Library into classes of diseases, grouped according to the cavities of 

 the body, is much more agreeable to the reader than the alphabetical order, and nearly as 

 convenient for reference. 



The reader will not fail to perceive some inequality in the articles, even of the same 

 authors ; the subjects with which an author is most familiar, and upon which he had pre- 

 viously written, are usually the best treated and most elaborate. Among the most finished 

 treatises are those of Dr. Christison on the urinary organs, and of Williams and Joy on the 

 thoracic viscera ; several other essays are excellent monographs, and very few fall much 

 below the average standard of the series. 



The object of the publishers in compressing the five volumes of the former edition into three 

 is to place the work at such a price as to be within the reach of every reader. There is no 

 abridgement or alteration whatever of the text of the former edition, and the general ap- 

 pearance of the volumes is scarcely inferior. The notes added to the last four volumes have 

 been revised, and some additions made to them. New notes have also been added to the first 

 volume, which was not revised in the former edition. For the note on Remittent Fever, the 

 American Editor is indebted to Dr. Stewardson, for those on Ophthalmia to Dr. W. P. Johnston. 

 The principal notes are one on Typhoid Fever, another on Remittent, one on Tuberculous 

 Meningitis, and a fourth on Delirium Tremens. It was neither intended nor wished to over- 

 load the work with annotations ; the notes refer either to some trivial errors which have crept 

 into the text, or to subjects which were treated less completely than they deserved to be ; they 

 are, therefore, comparatively few in number. Several diseases are, from the difference of cli- 

 mate, more frequent and severe in the United States than in Great Britain, and the articles 

 which relate to them required some additional matter. 



The notes which appeared in the London edition are designated by the word Author. Those 

 of the American Editor are indicated by the letter G. 



The Editor of this edition did not feel himself at liberty to make any change in the for- 

 mulas of the prescriptions, which are published towards the end of the last volume, believing, 

 as he does, that very strong reasons alone can justify such use of a scientific work. One 

 alteration, which adapts them to the custom of this country, was, however, made ; that is, the 

 translation of the directions for the doses and administration of the prescriptions from Latin 

 into English : there is an obvious convenience in this change. 



The Three Volumes now presented contain the first series, that on Practical Medicine, of a 

 Library of Medicine, edited by Dr. Tweedie, and now in course of publication, and are com- 

 plete in themselves. The series will be continued in London, embracing works on Midwifery,* 

 Surgery, Anatomy, and the other Departments of Medical Science. Such of them as may be 

 deemed worthy of republication will be issued here with notes and additions, each work under 

 its particular title, but in a style and manner to match this work. 



* The work on Midwifery, by Edward Rigby, with numerous wood cuts, has lately been issued by the pub- 

 lishers of these volumes. 



