" The Representative Book of Medical Science.''^ — London Lancet. 



Aitken's Science and Practice of Medicine. 



SECOND AMERICAN EROM THE FIETH LONDON EDITION. 



Containing Additions equal to 500 pages of the English Edition, prepared by 



the Ajierican Editor with Special Reference to the 



wants of the American Practitioner. 



The Science and Practice of Medicine. Bij William Aitken, M.D. Second 

 American from the Fifth Enlarged London Edition, ivith Additions by 

 Meredith Clymer, M.D., late Profesmr of the Institutes and Practice of 

 Medicine in the University of New York, Physician to the Philadelpliia 

 Hospital, etc. In 2 Yolumes Royal Octav^o. 



With a COLORED MAP, a LITHOGRAPHIC PLATE, and ONE HUNDRED AND 

 THIRTY ILLUSTRATIONS ON WOOD. 



Price, bound in Cloth, bevelled boards . . . . $12.00 



" " Leather, .... ... 14.00 



Fil'teen months have been spent by Dr. Aitken in thoroughly revising this Great Work, 

 and adding to it many valuable additions and improvements amounting to about 100 

 pages of new matter, included in which will be found the adoption and incorporation in 

 the text of the " nexo nomenclature of the Royal College of Physicians of London ;" to 

 which are added the Definitions and the Foreign equivalents for thnir English names. 



The subjects of Malignant Cholera, of Paralysis, of Epidemic Cerebro- Spinal Menin- 

 fitis, and of Intestinal Obstruction have been entirely re-written ; and several other sub- 

 jects in connection with the treatment of disease, of the greatest importance, are con- 

 §idered for the first time in this edition. 



The Press have referred to former editions of this work as " an admirable compila- 

 tion." " The most comprehensive of any in the practice of medicine." " It embodies 

 the most advanced knowledge of the time." " The most valuable class-book for students 

 yet published." " It may be looked upon as the standard text-book in the English lan- 

 guage." " The present work contains information that will not be found in any other 

 Manual of Medicine," <fec., &c. 



The author in this edition has endeavored to keep up this high reputation, and ta 

 m^ake it in every respect a Representative Book of Medical Science and the Practice of the 

 day, as understood and followed by the best men of the Profession. 



Large additions have also been made by the American Editor, Dr. Meridith Clymer, 

 equal to over 500 pages of the London edition, and with particular reference to the wants 

 ot the American Practitioner, included in which are new articles upon the following 

 subjects: Spinal Symptoms of Typhoid Fever, Typho-Malarial Fever, Ghronio 

 Gamp Dysentery, Cholera Morbus, Cholera Infantum, Hereditary Syphilis, Oon- 

 orrhceal Rheumatism, The Delirium of Inanition, Chronic Alcoholism, Syphilitic 

 Disease of the Liver, Epileptiform Neuralgia, Capillary Bronchitis, Plastic 

 Bronchitis, Dilatation of the Bronchia, Fibroid Degeneration of the Lung, 

 Chronic Pyaemia, &c. &c. 



