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PEREIRA (JONATHAN), M. D., F. R. S., AND L. S. 

 THE ELEMENTS OF MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS. 



Third American edition, enlarged and improved by the author; including Notices of most of the 

 Medicinal Substances in use in the civilized world, and forming an Encyclopaedia of Materia 

 Medica. Edited, with Additions, by JOSEPH CARSON, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica and 

 Pharmacy in the University of Pennsylvania. In two very large octavo volumes of 2100 pages, 

 on small type, with over four hundred and fifty illustrations. 

 VOLUME I. Lately issued, containing the Inorganic Materia Medica, over 800 pages, with 145 



illustrations. 



VOLUME II. Now ready, embraces the Organic Materia Medica, and forms a very large octavo 

 volume of 1250 pages, with two plates and three hundred handsome wood-cuts. 

 The present edition of this valuable and standard work will enhance in every respect its well- 

 deserved reputation. The care bestowed upon its revision by the author may be estimated by the 

 fact that its size has been increased by about five hundred pages. These additions have extended 

 to every portion of the work, and embrace not only the materials afforded by the recent editions of 

 the pharmacopoeias, but also all the important information accessible to the care and industry of 

 the author in treatises, essays, memoirs, monographs, and from correspondents in various parts of 

 the globe. In this manner the work comprises the most recent and reliable information respecting 

 all the articles of the Materia Medica, their natural and commercial history, chemical and thera- 

 peutical properties, preparation, uses, doses, and modes of administration, brought up to the present 

 time, with a completeness not to be met with elsewhere. A considerable portion of the work 

 which preceded the remainder in London, has also enjoyed the advantage of a further revision by 

 the author expressly for this country, and in addition to this the editor, Professor Carson, has made 

 whatever additions appeared desirable to adapt it thoroughly to the U. S. Pharmacopoeia, and to 

 the wants of the American profession. An equal improvement will likewise be observable in every 

 department of its mechanical execution. It is printed from new type, on good white paper, with a 

 greatly extended and improved series of illustrations. 



Gentlemen who have the first volume are recommended to complete their copies without delay. 

 The first volume will no longer be sold separate. 



When we remember that Philology, Natural His- 

 tory, Botany, Chemistry, Physics, and the Micro- 

 scope, are all brought forward to elucidate the sub- 

 ject, one cannot fail to see that the reader has here 

 a work worthy of the name of an encyclopedia of 

 Materia Medica. Our own opinion of its merits is 

 that of its editors, and also that of the whole profes- 

 sion, both of this and foreign countries namely, 

 " that in copiousness of details, in extent, variety, 



Medica, although completed under the supervision of 

 others, is by far the most elaborate treatise in the 

 English language, and will, while medical literature 

 is cherished, continue a monument alike honorable 

 to his genius, as to his learning and industry. 

 American Journal of Pharmacy, March, 1854. 



The work, in its present shape, and so far as can 

 be judged from the portion before the public, forms 



and accuracy of information, and in lucid'explana- the m . ost comprehensive and complete treatise on 

 sets it surpasses ' m!itena rnedica extant in the English language. 

 Dr. Pereira has been at great pains to introduce 

 into his work, not only all the information on the 

 natural, chemical, and commercial history of medi- 

 cines, which might be serviceable to the physician 

 and surgeon, but whatever might enable his read- 

 ers to understand thoroughly the mode of prepar- 



tion of difficult and recondite subjects, it surpasses 

 all other works on Materia Medica hitherto pub- 

 lished." We cannot close this notice without allud- 

 ing to the special additions of the American editor, 

 which pertain to the prominent vegetable produc- 

 tions of this country, and to the directions of the 



United States Pharmacopoeia, in connection with all | . - .- 



the articles contained in the volume which are re- ln ? and manufacturing various articles employed 

 ferredtobyit. The illustrations have been increased, either for preparing medicines, or for certain pur- 

 and this edition by Dr. Carson cannot well be re- i P oses m the arts connected with materia medica 

 garded in any other light than that of a treasure ! and the practice of medicine. The accounts of the 

 which should be found in the library of every physi- ! physiological and therapeutic effects of remedies are 

 cian. New York Journal of Medical and Collateral S iven with great clearness and accuracy, and in a 



The third edition of his "Elements of Materia 



manner calculated to interest as \vell as instruct 

 the reader. The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical 

 Journal . 



PEASELEE (E. R.), M. D., 

 Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in Dartmouth College, &c. 



HUMAN HISTOLOGY, in its applications to Physiology and General Pathology; 



designed as a Text-Book for Medical Students. With numerous illustrations. In one handsome 



royal 12mo. volume. (Preparing.) 



The subject of this work is one, the growing importance of which, as the basis of Anatomy and 

 Physiology, demands for it a separate volume. The book will therefore supply an acknowledged 

 deficiency in medical text-books, while the name of the author, and his experience as a teacher for 

 the last thirteen years, is a guarantee that it will be thoroughly adapted to the use of the student. 



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PIRRIE (WILLIAM), F. R. S. E., 



Professor of Surgery in the University of Aberdeen. 



PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SURGERY. 



Edited by JOHN 



NEILL, M. D., Professor of Surgery in the Penna. Medical College, Surgeon to the Pennsylvania 

 Hospital, &c. In one very handsome octavo volume, of 780 pages, with 316 illustrations. 



arrived. Prof. Pirrie, in the work before us, has 



We know of no other surgical work of a reason- 

 able size, wherein there is so much theory and prac- 

 tice, or where subjects are more soundly or clearly 

 taught. The Stethoscope. 



There is scarcely a disease of the bone or soft 

 parts, fracture, or dislocation, that is not illustrated 

 by accurate wood-engravings. Then, again, every 

 instrument employed by the surgeon is thus repre- 

 sented. These engravings are not only correct, but 



elaborately discussed the principles of surgery, and 

 a safe and effectual practice predicated upon 'them. 

 Perhaps no work upon this subject heretofore issued 

 is so full upon the science of the art of surgery. 

 Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery. 



One of the best treatises on surgery in the English 

 language. Canada Med. Journal. \ 



Our impression is, that, as a manual for students, 



really beautiful, showing the astonishing degree of Pirrie's is the best work extant. Western Med. and 

 perfection to which the art of wood-engraving has Surg. Journal. 



