Meigs and Pepper on Children. 



rOUETH EDITION, ENLARGED AND IMPEOVED. 

 The publishers have selected the following notice, from a late number of 

 the London Lancet, of the New Edition of this work, as indicating, per- 

 haps, more fully than any other of the numerous favorable criticisms that 

 have appeared of it elsewhere, its great value to the Practitioner and 

 Student of Medicine. 



"It is not necessary to say much, in the way of criticism, of a work so well known 

 as 'Meigs on Diseases of CliiMren,' especially when it his reached a fourth edition. 

 Our duty is wellnigh restricted to the point of ascertaining how far, under an old 

 color, it preserves the freshness and the vmIuc of a new book — how far it incorpo- 

 rates what is new with what is old without unseemly marks of mere joining. There 

 is some advantage in starting entirely afresh, iu being merely clinical, or in being very 

 short, and limiting one's self (o the expression of one's own views and experience. 

 But such is not the nature of this book, and the advantages of it are different. It is a 

 work of more tlian 900 good American pages, and is more encyclopredial than clinical. 

 But it is clinical, and withal most eiiectually brought up to the light, pathological and 

 therapeutical, of the present day. 



" The book is like so many other good American iSedical books which we have lately 

 had occasion to notice; it marvellously combines a resume of all the best European 

 literature and practice with evidence throughout of good personal judgment, knowl- 

 edge, and experience. It is gratifying to see how our English authors are quoted, and 

 especially how the labors of Ilillier, who died so prematurely, are recognized. But 

 the book abounds in exposition of American experience and observation in all that 

 relates to the diseases of children. Not the least interesting additions to the volume 

 are several extensive tables, exhibiting the mortality in Philadelphia of some of the 

 most common and fatal diseases in connection with tlie variations of the temperature, 

 and prepared with great care from the records of the Board of Health. 



"The tlioroughly fresh nature of the book is especially seen in the care with which 

 certain articles have been written. Such are those on Kickets and Tuberculosis, Infan- 

 tile Atrophic Paralysis, and Progressive Paralysis. No book now on diseases of chil- 

 dren is complete which does not treat specially of constitutional or diathetic diseases, 

 such as rickets and tuberculosis, syphilis, &c. 



"Among other articles of great interest and value we would mention those on Dis- 

 eases of tlie Ciecum and Appendix Vermifoiniis, on Indigestion in Children, on Diar- 

 rhoea, on Entero-Colitis, on Intussusception, on Chronic Hydrocephalus, and on Croup 

 and the value of Tracheotomy. 



"The difficulties of editing a new edition of a medical book of some standing are 

 not more felt in the region of pathology and the classification of disease than in that 

 of therapeutics. In this work this difficulty has been fairly faced by the authors. 

 They have to confess to having changed their practice very materially in the treatment 

 of acute diseases, to having given up mercury in most iufianimatory diseases, and almost 

 given up bloodletting. We recommend the views of these authors as to the injurious 

 eti'ects of calomel and antimony to careful consideration. They do not entirely abjure 

 the use of bloodletting in certain cases of pneumonia and meningitis. Indeed, we 

 think they will find reason in future editions to talk a little less freely than they do 

 about bleeding and cupping very young children in certain circumstances of pneumonia, 

 and in certain cases of simple- meningitis. With a few exceptions of this kind, the 

 therapeutics are sound and commendable, great importance being given to proper 

 feeding and the general manaiijement of infancy and childhood. It is due to authors 

 of so much fairness and experience to publish widely their opinion of the injurious 

 and depressing effects of antimony in the inflammations of children. To infants under 

 two years of age they think it best to give no antimony even in pneumonia. They do 

 "lot use tartar emetic at all in the cases of children, but small doses, such as the twelfth 

 of a grain, of the precipitated sulphuret of antimony, every two, three, or four hours, 

 watching its effects, and withdrawing it quickly if symptoms of prostration appear, 

 perhaps without any vomiting. 



"We are glad to add this work to our library. There are few diseases of children 

 wliicli it does not treat of fully and wisely iu the light of the latest physiological, 

 pathological, and therapeutical science." — London Lancet, July 23, 1870. 



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