BLANCHARD & LEA'S MEDICAL 



QUARTERLY SUMMARY, 



being a very full and complete abstract, methodically arranged, of the 



IMPROVEMENTS AND DISCOVERIES IN THE MEDICAL SCIENCES, 



This department of the Journal, so important to the practising physician, is the object of especial 

 care on the part of the editor. Jt is classified and arranged under different heads, thus facilitating 

 the researches of the reader in pursuit of particular subjects, and will be found to present a very 

 full and accurate digest of all observations, discoveries, and inventions recorded in every branch 6t 

 medical science. The very extensive arrangements of the publishers are such as to afford to the 

 editor complete materials for this purpose, as he not only regularly receives 



ALL THE AMERICAN MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC PERIODICALS, 



but also twenty or thirty of the more important Journals issued in Great Britain and on the Conti- 

 nent, thus enabling him to present in a convenient compass a thorough and complete abstract of 

 everything interesting or important to the physician occurring in any part of the civilized world. 



An evidence of the success which has attended these efforts may be found in the constant and 

 Heady increase in the subscription list, which renders it advisable for gentlemen desiring the 

 Journal, to make known their wishes at an early day, in order to secure a year's set with certainty, 

 the publishers having frequently been unable to supply copies when ordered late in the year. To 

 their old subscribers, many of whom have been on their list for twenty or thirty years, the publish- 

 ers teel that no promises are necessary; but those who may desire for the first time to subscribe, 

 can rest as-sured that no exertion will be spared to maintain the Journal in the high position which 

 it has occupied for so long a period. 



By reference to the terms it will be seen that, in addition to this large amount of valuable and 

 practical information on every branch of medical science, the subscriber, by paying in. advance, 

 becomes entitled, without further charge, to 



THE MEDICAL NEWS AND LIBRARY, 



a monthly periodical of thirty-two large octavo pages. Its "NEWS DEPARTMENT" presents the 

 current information of the day, while the "LIBRARY DEPARTMENT" is devoted to presenting stand- 

 ard works on various branches of medicine. Within a few years, subscribers have thus received, 

 without expense, the following works which have passed through its columns: 



WATSON'S LECTURES ON THE PRACTICE OF PHYSIC. 



BRODIE'S CLINICAL LECTURES ON SURGERY. 



TODD AND BOWMAN'S PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF MAN. 



724 pages, with numerous wood-cuts, being all that has yet appeared in England. 

 WEST'S LECTURES ON THE DISEASES OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD. 

 MALGAIGNE'S OPERATIVE SURGERY, with wood-cuts. 

 SIMON'S LECTURES ON GENERAL PATHOLOGY. 

 BENNETT ON PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS, with wood-cuts, and 

 WEST ON ULCERATION OF THE OS UTERI. 



While the year 1855, presents 

 BROWN ON THE SURGICAL DISEASES OF FEMALES. 



HANDSOMELY ILLUSTRATED ON WOOD. 



The diseases treated in this volume have hitherto not received from writers of systematic 

 works the attention to which their importance entitles them. In treatises on female diseases they 

 have been but little noticed, as belonging more properly to the surgeon, while our surgical text-books 

 have in like manner referred them to the writer on midwifery and female affections. In supplying 

 this palpable vacancy in medical literature, Mr. Brown has brought to his subject the result of 

 many years of observation and experience, and his labors will prove of much value to all practi- 

 tioners. The publishers therefore flatter themselves that in securing this volume for ihe " LIBRARY 

 DEPARTMENT" of the " MEDICAL NEWS" they will meet the wishes of their numerous subscri- 

 bers, who will thus receive this highly important work free of all expense. 



It will thus be seen that for the small sum of FIVE DOLLARS, paid in advance, the subscriber 

 will obtain a Quarterly and a Monthly periodical, 



EMBRACING ABOUT FIFTEEN HUNDRED LARGE OCTAVO PAGES, 



mailed to any part of the United States, free of postage. 



These very favorable terms are now presented by the publishers with the view of removing all 

 difficulties and objections to a full and extended circulation of the Medical Journal to the office of 

 every member of the profession throughout the United Slates. The rapid extension of mail facili- 

 ties, will now place the numbers before subscribers with a certainty and dispatch not heretofore 

 attainable; while by the system now proposed, every subscriber throughout the Union is placed 

 upon an equal footing, at the very reasonable price of Five Dollars for two periodicals, without 

 further expense. 



Those subscribers who do not pay in advance will bear in mind that their subscription of Five 

 Dollars will entitle them to the Journal only, without the News, and that they will be at the expense 

 of their own postage on the receipt of each number. The advantage of a remittance when order- 

 ing the Journal will thus be apparent. 



As the Medical News and Library is in no case sent without advance payment, its subscribers 

 will alwwys receive it free of postage. 



It should also be borne in mind that the publishers will now take the risk of remittances by mail, 

 when the letter inclosing the amount is registered under the new Postage Act, going into effect 

 July 1, 1855. 



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