BLANCHARD & LEA'S MEDICAL 



CARPENTER (WILLIAM B.), M. D., F. R. S., &c., 



Examiner in Physiology and Comparative Anatomy in the University of London. 



PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY; with their chief applications to 



Psychology, Pathology, Therapeutics, Hygiene, and Forensic Medicine. A new American, from 

 the" last and revised London edition. With about three hundred illustrations. Edited, with addi- 

 tions, by FRANCIS GURNEY SMITH, M. D., Professor of the Institutes of Medicine in the Pennsyl- 

 vania Medical College, &rc. In one very large and beautiful octavo volume, of about one thousand 

 large pages, handsomely printed and strongly bound in leather, with raised bands. (Lately Issued.) 



The most complete work on the science in our 

 language. Am. Med. Journal. 



The most complete exposition of physiology which 

 any laneuage can at preseut give. Brit, and For. 

 Med.-Chirurg. Review. 



The best text-book in the language on this ex- 

 tensive subject. London Med. Times. 



A complete cyclopaedia of this branch of science. 

 N. Y. Med. Times. 



The standard of authority on physiological sub- 

 jects. * * * In the present edition, to particularize 

 "We have thus adverted to some of the leading the alterations and additions which have been made, 

 "additions and alterations," which have been in- would require a review of the whole work, since 

 troduced by The author into this edition of his phy- scarcely a subject has not been revised and altered, 

 siology. These will be found, however, very far to added to, or entirely remodelled to adapt it to the 

 exceed the ordinary limits of a new edition, " the ; present state of the science. Charleston Med. Journ. 



Any reader who desires a treatise on physiology 

 mny feel himself entirely safe in ordering this. 

 I. and Surg. Journal. 



old materials having been incorporated with the 

 new, rather than the new with the old." It now 

 certainly presents the most complete treatise on the \v e \tern 

 subject within the reach of the American reader; 

 and while, for availability as a text-book, we may 



perhaps regret its growth in bulk, we are sure that 

 the student of physiology will feel the impossibility 

 of presenting a thorough digest of the facts of the 

 science within a more limited compass. Medical 

 Examiner. 



The greatest, the most reliable, and the best book 

 on the subject which we know of in the English 

 language. Stethoscope. 



The most complete work now extant in our lan- 

 guage. N. 0. Med. Register. 



The changes are too numerous to admit of an ex- 

 tended notice in this place. At every point where 

 the recent diligent labors of organic chemists and 

 micrographers have furnished interesting and valu- 



From this hasty and imperfect allusion it will be 



seen by our readers that the alterations and addi- 

 tions to this edition render it almost a new work 

 and we can assure our readers that it is one of the 

 best summaries of the existing fact 



existing facts of physiological 

 ch of the English student and 



physician. N. Y. Journal of Medicine. 



The profession of this country, and perhaps also 

 of Europe, have anxiously and for some time awaited 

 the announcement of this new edition of Carpenter's 

 Human Physiology. His former editions have for 

 many years been almost the only text-book on Phy- 

 siology in all our medical schools, and its circula- 

 tion among the profession has been unsurpassed by 

 any work in any department of medical science. 



It is quite unnecessary for us to speak of thig 

 work as its merits would justify. The mere an- 



able facts, they have been appropriated, and no pains : nouncement of its appearance will afford the highest 

 have been spared, in so incorporating and arranging pleasure to every student of Physiology, while its 

 them that the work may constitute one harmonious perusal will be of infinite service in advancing 

 system. Southern Med. and Surg. Journal. ' physiological science. Ohio Med. and Surg. Jour*. 



BY THE SAME AUTHOR. (Now Reafly.) 



PRINCIPLES OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY. New American, from 



the Fourth and Revised London edition. In one large and handsome octavo volume, wilh over 



three hundred beautiful illustrations, pp. 752. 



The delay which has existed in the appearance of this work has been caused by the very thorough 

 revision and remodelling which it has undergone at the hands of the author, and the large number 

 of new illustrations which have been prepared for it. It will, therefore, be found almost a new 

 work, nnd fully up to the day in every department of the subject, rendering it a reliable text-book 

 for all students engaged in this branch of science. Every effort has been made to render its typo- 

 graphical finish and mechanical execution worthy of its exalted reputation, and creditable to the 

 mechanical arts of this country. 



This book should not only be read but thoroughly 

 studied by every number of the profession. Ps'one 

 are too wise or old, to be benefited thereby. But 



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language to qualify them for the reception and com- 

 prehension of those truths which are daily being de- 

 veloped in physiology. Medical Counsellor. 



no man, we believe, could have brought to so suc- 

 cessful an issue as Dr. Carpenter. It required for 

 its production a physiologist at once deeply read in 



especially to the younger class would we cordially the labors of others, capable of taking a general, 

 commend it as best fitted of any work in the English critical, arid unprejudiced view of those labors and 



of combining the varied, heterogeneous materials at 

 his disposal, so as to form an harmonious whole. 

 We feel that this abstract can give the reader a very 



Without pretending to it, it is an Encyclopedia of I imperfect idea of the fulness of this work, and no 

 thp subject, accurate and complete in all respects I ide!l " f lts nty "f the admirable manner in which 

 a truthful reflection of the advanced state at which I material has been brought, from the most various 

 the science has now arrived Dublin Quarterly ! sources, to conduce to its completeness, of the lucid- 

 Journal of Medical Science. i '}' Of the reasoning it contains, or of the clearness 



. . c . . .. .- - . , of language in which the whole is clothed. Not the 



A truly magnificent work-in itself a perfect phy- . profe8 6 8io * onlv but the scie ntific world at large, 

 Biological study. Rankings Abstract. | mugt f|;el deep j y jndebted t() Dr Carpenter for this 



This work stands without its fellow. It is one great work. It must, indeed, add largely even to 

 few men in Europe could have undertaken ; it is one his high reputation. Medical Times. 



BY THE SAME AUTHOR. (Preparing.) 



PRINCIPLES OF GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY, INCLUDING ORGANIC 



CHEMISTRY AND HISTOLOGY. With a General Sketch of the Vegetable and Animal 

 Kingdom. In one large and very handsome octavo volume, wilh several hundred illustrations. 

 The subject of general physiology having been omitted in the last edition of the author's "Com- 

 parative Physiology," he has undertaken to prepare a volume which shall present it more tho- 

 roughly and fully tlian has yet been attemp'ed, and which may be regarded as an introduction to 

 his other works. 



