HENRY C. LEA'S SON & Co.'s PUBLICATIONS Dictionaries. 



DUNGLISON, ROBLEY, M. D., 



Late Professor of Institutes of Meilicine in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. 



MEDICAL LEXICON ; A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing 

 a concise explanation of the various Subjects and Terms of Anatomy, Physiology, Pathol- 

 ogy, Hygiene, Therapeutics, Pharmacology, Pharmacy, Surgery, Obstetrics, Medical Juris- 

 prudence and Dentistry, Notices of Climate and of Mineral Waters, Formulae for Officinal, 

 Empirical and Dietetic Preparations, with the Accentuation and Etymology of the Terms, 

 and the French and other Synonymes, so as to constitute a French as well as an English 

 Medical Lexicon. A new edition, thoroughly revised, and very greatly modified and 

 augmented. By RICHARD J. DUNGLISON, M. D. In one very large and handsome royal 

 octavo volume of 1139 pages. Cloth, 6.50; leather, raised bands, $7.50; very handsome 

 half Russia, raised bands, $8. 



The object of the author, from the outset, has not been to make the work a mere lexi- 

 con or dictionary of terms, but to afford under each word a condensed view of its various 

 medical relations, and thus to render the work an epitome of the existing condition of 

 medical science. Starting with this'view, the immense demand which has existed for the 

 work has enabled him, in repeated revisions, to augment its completeness and usefulness, 

 until at length it has attained the position of a recognized and standard authority wherever 

 the language is spoken. Special pains have been taken in the preparation of the present 

 edition to maintain this enviable reputation. The additions to the vocabulary are more 

 numerous than in any previous revision, and particular attention has been bestowed on the 

 accentuation, which will be found marked on every word. The typographical arrangement 

 has been greatly improved, rendering reference much more easy, and every care has been 

 taken with the mechanical execution. The Tolume now contains the matter of at least 

 four ordinary octavos. 



A book of which every American ought to be ; 

 proud. When the learned author of the work 

 passed away, probably all of us feared lest the book j 

 should not maintain its place in the advancing I 

 science whose terms it defines. Fortunately, Dr. 

 Richard J. Dunglison, having assisted his father in 

 the revision of several editions of the work, and 

 having been, therefore, trained in the methods 

 and imbued with the spirit of the book, has been 

 able to edit it as a work of the kind should be 

 edited to carry it on steadily, without jar or inter- 

 ruption, along the grooves of thought it has trav- 

 elled during its lifetime. To show the magnitude 

 of the task which Dr. Dunglison has assumed and 

 carried through, it is only necessary to state that 

 more than six thousand new subjects have been 

 added in the present edition. Philadelphia Medical 

 Times, Jan. 3, 1874. 



About the first book purchased by the medical 

 student is the Medical Dictionary. The lexicon j 

 explanatory of technical terms is simply a sine qua ! 

 non. In a science so extensive and with such col- 

 laterals as medicine, it is as much a necessity also 

 to the practising physician. To meet the wants of 

 students and most physicians the dictionary must 

 be condensed while comprehensive, and practical 

 while perspicacious. It was because Dunglison's 

 met these indications that it became at once the 

 dictionary of general use wherever medicine was 

 studied in the English language. In no former 

 revision have the alterations and additions been 

 so great. The chief terms have been set in black 

 letter, while the derivatives follow in small caps; 

 an arrangement which greatly facilitates reference. 

 Cincinnati Clinic, Jan. 10, 1874. 



As a standard work of reference Dunglison's 



work has been well known for about torty years, 

 and needs no words of praise on our part to recom- 

 mend it to the members of the medical, and like- 

 wise of the pharmaceutical, profession. The latter 

 especially are in need of a work which gives ready 

 and reliable information on thousands of subjects 

 and terms which they are liable to encounter in 

 pursuing their daily vocations, but with which they 

 cannot be expected to be familiar. The work 

 before us fully supplies this want. American Jour- 

 nal of Pharmacy, Feb. 1874. 



Particular care has been devoted to derivation 

 and accentuation of terms. With regard to the 

 latter, indeed, the present edition may be consid- 

 ered a complete "Pronouncing Dictionary of 

 Medical Science." It is perhaps the most reliable 

 work published for the busy practitioner, as it con- 

 tains information upon every medical subject, in 

 a form for ready access, and with a brevity as ad- 

 mirable as it is practical. Southern Medical Record, 

 Feb. 1874. 



A valuable dictionary of the terms employed in 

 medicine and the allied sciences, and of the rela- 

 tions of the subjects treated under each head. It 

 well deserves the authority and popularity it has 

 obtained. British Med. Jour., Oct. 31, 1874. 



Few works of this class exhibit a grander monu- 

 ment of patient research and of scientific lore. 

 London Lancet, May 13, 1875. 



Dunglison's Dictionary is incalculably valuable, 

 and indispensable to every practitioner of medi- 

 cine, pharmacist and dentist. Western Lancet, 

 March, 1874. 



It has the rare merit that it certainly has no rival 

 in the English language for accuracy and extent of 

 references. London Medical Gazette. 



HOBLYN, RICHARD D., M. D. 



A Dictionary of the Terms Used in Medicine and the Collateral 

 Sciences. Revised, with numerous additions, by ISAAC HAYS, M. D., late editor of 

 The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. In one large royal 12mo. volume of 520 

 double-columned pages. Cloth, $1.50 ; leather, $2.00. 



It is the best book of definitions we have, and ought always to be upon the student's table Southern 

 Medical and Surgical Journal. 



RODWELL, G. F., F. R. A. 8., F. C. 8., 



Lecturer on Natural Science at Clifton College, England. 



A Dictionary of Science : Comprising Astronomy, Chemistry, Dynamics, Elec- 

 tricity, Heat, Hydrodynamics, Hydrostatics, Light, Magnetism, Mechanics, Meteorology, 

 Pneumatics, Sound and Statics. Contributed by J. T. Bottomley, M. A., F. C. S., William 

 Crookes, F.R.S., F.C.S., Frederick Guthrie, B.A., Ph. D., R. A. Proctor, B.A., F.R.A.S., 

 G. F. Rodwell, Editor, Charles Tomlinson, F.R.S., F.C.S., and Richard Wornell, M.A., 

 B.Sc. Preceded by an Essay on the History of the Physical Sciences. In one handsome 

 octavo volume of 702 pages, with 143 illustrations. Cloth, $5.00. 



