26 BLANCHARD & LEA'S MEDICAL 



PARR1SH (EDWARD), 

 Lecturer on Practical Pharmacy and Materia Medica in the Pennsylvania Academy of- Medicine, &c. 



A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO PHARMACY. Designed as a Text- 



Book for the Student, and as a Guide to the Physician and Pharmaceutist. With numerous 

 Formulae and Illustrations. In one handsome octavo volume. (Nearly Ready.) 

 The want of an elementary text- hook on this subject has long been felt and acknowledged. 

 While vast stores of information on all the collateral branches of pharmacy are contained in such 

 works as Mohr and Redwood, the U. S. Dispensatory, the Pharmacopoeia, Pereira, and others, 

 there has been no compendious manual presenting within a moderate compass, and in systematic 

 order, the innumerable minor details which make up the everyday business of those who dispense 

 medicines. It has been the object of the author to supply this want, and while to the pharmaceutist 

 such a work is manifestly indispensable, its utility will hardly be less to the country practitioner, 

 residing at a distance from drug stores, and obliged to dispense the remedies which he prescribes. 

 Familiarized with the elements of therapeutics and the essentials of materia medica, by his at- 

 tendance at lectures, he has hitherto been obliged to learn for him.-elf the details of prescribing, 

 compounding, and preparing medicines. The volume commences with a chapter on the 'out/it'' 

 of the country physician, describing the different articles, their various kinds and comparative ad- 

 vantages ; the Pharmacopoeia is described, explained, and commented upon, its contents classified 

 and arranged so as to be easily comprehended and referred to; all the operations of pharmacy are 

 given in minute detail, and under each head the various preparations are specified to which it is 

 applicable, with directions for making them, giving in this manner a comprehensive and practical 

 view of the materia medica, with much valuable information regarding all the more important ar- 

 ticles. All the officinal formulae are thus presented, with directions lor their preparation and use, 

 together with many empirical ones of interest, and numerous new ones derived from the practice 

 ol distinguished physicians. Especial attention has been bestowed on the NEW REMKDIES, the 

 more important of which are minutely described, particularly those derived from our indigenous 

 plants, which have of late attracted so much attention, and wtiich the author has thoroughly 

 investigated. The chapters on extemporaneous pharmacy contain clear and accurate instructions 

 for writing prescriptions, selecting, combining, dispensing, and compounding medicines, making 

 powders, pills, mixtures, ointments, &c. &c., with formulae; and the work concludes with an ap- 

 pendix of valuable hints and advice to those purchasing articles connected with their profession. 

 Numerous tables interspersed throughout elucidate the various subjects, which are rendered still 

 clearer by a large numbex of engravings. Care has been taken in all instances to indicate and 

 describe the simplest apparatus and procedures affording satisfactory results. The long experience 

 of the author, both as a teacher of pharmacy, and as a practical pharmaceutist, is sufficient guarantee 

 of his familiarity with the wants and necessities of the student, and of his ability to satisfy them. 



ROKITANSKY (CARD, M.D., 

 Curator of the Imperial Pathological Museum, and Professor at the University of Vienna, &c. 



A MANUAL OF PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY. Four volumes octavo, 



bound in two. (Nearly Ready.) 



Vol. I. Manual of General Pathological Anatomy. Translated by W. E. SWAINE. 

 Vol. II. Pathological Anatomy of the Abdominal Viscera. Translated by EDWARD SIEVEKING, 



M.D. 

 Vol. III. Pathological Anatomy of the Bones, Cartilages, Muscles, and Skin, Cellular and Fibrous 



Tissue, Serous and Mucous Membrane, and Nervous System. Translated by C. H. MOORE. 

 Vol. IV. Pathological Anatomy of the Organs of Respiration and Circulation. Translated by G. 



E. DAY. 



To render this large and important work more easy of reference, and at the same time less cum- 

 brous and costly, the publishers have arranged the four volumes in two, retaining, however, the 

 separate paging, &c. 



The publishers feel much pleasure in presenting to the profession of the United States the great 

 work of Prof. Rokitansky, which is universally referred to as the standard of authority by the pa- 

 tiiologists of all nations. Under the auspices of the Sydenham Society of London, the combined 

 labor of four translators has at length overcome the almost insuperable difficulties which have so 

 long prevented the appearance of the work in an English dress, while the additions made from 

 various papers and essays of the author present his views on all the topics embraced, in their latest 

 published form. To a "work so widely known, eulogy is unnecessary, and the publishers would 

 merely state that it contains the results of not less than THIRTY THOUSAND < post-mortem examina- 

 tions "made by the author, diligently compared, generalized, and wrought into one complete and 

 harmonious system. 



RIGBY (EDWARD), M . D., 



Physician to the General Lying-in Hospital, &c. 



A SYSTEM OF MIDWIFERY. With Notes and Additional Illustrations. 



Second American Edition. One volume octavo, 422 pages. 



ROYLE (J. FORBES), M. D. 

 MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS; including the Preparations of 



the Pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and of the United States. Wilh many new 

 medicines. Edited by JOSEPH CARSON, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy in 

 the University of Pennsylvania. With ninety-eight illustrations. In one large octavo volume, 

 of about seven hundred pages. 



This work is, indeed, a most valuable one, and I ductions on the other extreme, which are neees- 

 will fill up an important vacanej' that existed be- | sarily imperfect from their small extent. British 

 tween Dr. Pereira's most learned and complete and Foreign Medical Review. 

 system of Materia Medica, and the class of pro- | 



