HENRY C. LEA'S PIHLICATIONS (Surgery). 



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A SHHURST (JOHN, Jr.), M.D., 



-* I'rof. of Clinical Snri/rry. Univ. of Pa., Surgeon to the Episcopal Hospital, Philadelphia. 



THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SURGERY. Second 



edition, enlarged and revised. In one very large and handsome octavo volume of over 



1000 pages, with 542 illustrations. Cloth, $6 ; leather, $7. (Just Ready.) 



Conscientiousness and thoroughness are two very i Ashhur-U's Surgery is too well known in this 



marked trails of character in the author of this country to require special commendation from us. 



book. Out of these traits largely has grown the This, its second edition, enlarged and thoroughly 



.success of his mental fruit in the paet, and the pre- revised, brings it nearer our idea of a model text- 



seut olfer seems in no wise an exception to what has book than any recently published treatise. Though 



gone before. The general arrangement of the vol- | numerous additions have been made, the size of the 



ume is the same as in the first edition, but every part work is not materially increased The main trouble 



has 



furnish him the ino.-t information in the shortest 

 We have previously spoken of Dr. Ashhurst s time In every respect this work of Ashhurst is 

 work iu terms of praise. We wish to reiterate those , tne mo d e l text- book- full, comprehensive and corn- 

 terms here, and to add that no more satisfactory , -p^ci.Nafihville Jour of Med. andtiurg., Jan. '79 

 representation of modern surgery has yet fallen OM _ fcj _ Mi . V i. ,..^^^; t *v- _ . _, = .,'. 



been carefully revised, aud much new matter of text-books of modern times is that they are too 

 8 d. Phi/a. Med. Times, Feb. 1, 1S79. j cumbersome. The student needs a book which will 



represent 



from the press. 



gery 

 point of judicial fairness, of 



The attempt to embrace iu a volume of 1000 pages 

 the whole field of surgery, general and special, 

 would be a hopeless ta*k unless through the most 

 tireless industry in collating and arranging, and 

 the wisest judgment in condensing and excluding. 

 These facilities have been abundantly employed by 

 the author, and he has given us a most excellent 

 treatise, brought up by the revision for the second 

 edition to the latest date. Of course this book is not 

 designed for specialists, but as a course of general 

 surgical knowledge and for general practitioners, 

 and as a text-book for students it is not surpassed 

 by any that has yet appeared, whether of home or 



foreign authorship. N. 

 Jan. 1S79. 



Carolina Med. Journal, 



The favorable reception of the first edition is a 

 guarantee of the popularity of this tdition, which is 

 ' many enlarge- 



r of this work 

 nd writer, and 

 f surgery have 

 gained for him wide reputation. The volume now 

 offered the profession will add new laurels to those 

 already won by previous contributions. We can 

 only add that the work is well arranged, filled with 

 practical matter, and contains in brief and clear 

 language all that is necessary t> be learned by the 

 student of surgery whilst in attendance upon lec- 

 tures, or the general practitioner in his daily routine 

 practice. Md. Med. Journal, Jan. 1879. 



The fact that this work has reached a second edi- 

 tion so very toon after the publication of the first 

 one, speaks more highly of its merits than anything 

 we might say iu the way of commendation. It 

 seems to have immediately gained the favor of stu- 

 dents and physicians. Cincin. Med. News, Jan. '79 



TDRYANT (THOMAS), F.R.C.8., 



*-* Surgeon to Gfuy's Hospital. 



THE PRACTICE OF SURGERY. Second American, from the Sec- 



ond and Revised English Edition. With Six Hundred and Seventy- two Engravings on 

 Wood. In one large and very handsome imperial octavo volume of over 1000 large and 

 closely printed pages. Cloth, $6; leather, $7. (Just Ready.) 



This work has enjoyed the advantage of two thorough revisions at the hand of the author since 

 the appearance of the first American edition, resulting in a very notable enlargement of size and 

 improvement of matter. In England this has led to the division of the work into two volumes, 

 which are here comprised in one, the size being increased to a large imperial octavo, printed on 

 a condensed but clear type. The series of illustrations has undergone a like revision, and will 

 be found correspondingly improved . 



The marked success of the work on both sides of the Atlantic shows that the author hag suc- 

 ceeded iu the effort to give to student and practitioner a sound and trustworthy guide in the 

 practice of fcurgery; while the simultaneous appearance of the present edition in England and 

 in this country affords to the American reader the benefit of the most recent advances' made 

 abroad in surgical science. 



Another edition of this manual having been called 

 for, the author has availed hiiiiselt'of the opportunity 

 to make no few alterations in the substance ao we 'l 

 as in the arrangement of the work, and, with a view 

 to its improvement, has recast the materials and re- 

 vised the whole. We ourselves are of the opinion 

 that there is no better work on surgery extant 

 Cii-cinnati Med. News, March, 1670 



Bryant's Surgery has been favorably received from 

 the first, and evidently grows in the esteem of the 

 profession with each succeeding edition. In glanc- 

 ing over the volume before us wefiucl proof in almost 

 every chapter of the thorough revision which the 



There are so many text-books of surgery, so many 

 written by skilled and distinguished hands, that to ob 

 tain the honor of a third edition in England is no light 

 praise. Mr. Bryant merits this, by clearness of style, 

 and good judgment in selecting the operations he re- 

 commend?, in his new editions he goes carefully over 

 the eld grounds, in light of later research. On these 

 and many allied points, Mr. Bryant is a calm and un- 

 partisuu observer, and his book throughout has the 

 great merit of maintaining the true scientific, judicial 

 tone of uiind. Mtd. and Surg. lieporttr, March 22, 

 1879. 



The work before us is the American reprint of the 

 last London edition, and bus the advantage over the 

 latter in being of more convenient size, and in being 



worn has undergone, many parts having been cut 

 out and replaced by matter entirely fresh. N. Y. 



compressed into one volume. The author has rewrit- I Med. -'ourn., April, 1879. 

 ten the greater part of the work and has succeeded, I We i com e as the new edition is, and as much as it 

 in the amount of new matter added, m making lt mark- is eutiUed to commendation, yet its appearance at 

 edly distinctive from previous editions. A few extra : this thue { iu a cer , a , n gens ' > a matter P J f 7 * g 

 pages have been added, and also a few new illustrations I ;, w :ii h in .-nmnoHii >n iv, . -, th a * \ i 

 introduced. The publishers have presented the work '. ^ d &^%^ffi'^\Y& 

 '" ^ ^S^^^S^^S^ \ of forming a judgmen? as to the 'relative merits of 



iu a. creditabl 



of British surgery it is perhaps without an equal, and 

 will doubtless always be a favorite text-book with the 

 student and practitioner. JV. 1\ Med. Record, March 



22, 1S7 ( J. 



jrmiug a judgi 

 Bryant, aud Ashiuirst we will not attempt, but pre- 

 dict that, considering the high excellence of bath, 

 many others will likewise be forced to hesitate long 

 iu making choice between \\\QII\. -^Cincinnati Lan- 

 cet and Clinic, March 22, Ib79. 



