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REYNOLDS, J. RUSSELL, M. I)., 



Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine in University College, London. 



A System of Medicine. With notes and additions by HENRY HARTSHORNE, 

 A. M., M. D., late Professor of Hygiene in the University of Pennsylvania. In three large 

 and handsome octavo volumes, containing 3056 double-columned pages, with 317 illustra- 

 tions. Price per volume, cloth, $5.00 ; sheep, $6.00 ; very handsome half Russia, raised bands, 

 $6.50. Per set, cloth, $15 ; sheep, $18 ; half Russia, $19.50. Sold only by subscription. 

 VOLUME I. Contains GENERAL DISEASES and DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. 

 VOLUME II. Contains DISEASES OF RESPIRATORY and CIRCULATORY SYSTEMS. 

 VOLUME HI. Contains DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE, BLOOD-GLANDULAR, URINARY, RE- 

 PRODUCTIVE and CUTANEOUS SYSTEMS. 



Reynolds' SYSTEM OF MEDICINE, recently completed, has acquired, since the first ap- 

 pearance of the first volume, the well-deserved reputation of being the work in which 

 modern British medicine is presented in its fullest and most practical form. This could 

 scarce be otherwise in view of the fact that it is the result of the collal oration of the lead- 

 ing minds of the profession, each subject being treated by some gentleman who is regarded 

 as its highest authority as, for instance, diseases of the bladder by Sir Henry Thompson, 

 malposition of the uterus by Graily Hewitt, insanity by Henry Maudsley, consumption by 

 J. Hughes Bennet, diseases of the spine by Charles Bland Radcliffe, pericarditis by Francis 

 Sibson, alcoholism by Francis E. Anstie, renal affections by William Roberts, asthma 

 by Hyde Salter, cerebral affections by H. Charlton Bastian, gout and rheumatism by Alfred 

 Baring Garrod, constitutional syphilis by Jonathan Hutchinson, diseases of the stomach by 

 Wilson Fox, diseases of the skin by Balmanno Squire, affections of the larynx by Morell 

 Mackenzie, diseases of the rectum by Blizard Curling, diabetes by Lander Brunton, intes- 

 tinal diseases by John Syer Bristowe, catalepsy and somnambulism by Thomas King Cham- 

 bers, apoplexy by J. Hughlings Jackson, angina pectoris by Professor Gairdner, emphysema 

 of the lungs by Sir William Jenner, etc., etc. All the leading schools in Great Britain 

 have contributed their best men, in generous rivalry, to build up this monument of medical 

 science. That a work conceived in such a spirit and carried out under such auspices 

 should prove an indispensable treasury of facts and experience, suited to the daily wants of the 

 practitioner, was inevitable ; and the success which it has enjoyed in England, and the 

 reputation which it has acquired on this side of the Atlantic, have sealed it with the ap- 

 probation of the two pre-eminently practical nations. 



Its large size and high price having kept it beyond the reach of many practitioners in 

 this country who desire to possess it, a demand has arisen for an edition at a price which 

 shall render it accessible to all. To meet this demand the present edition has been under- 

 taken. The five volumes and five thousand pages of the original have, by the use of a 

 smaller type and double columns, been compressed into three volumes of over three 

 thousand pages, clearly and handsomely printed, and offered at a price which renders it 

 one of the cheapest works ever presented to the American profession. 



But not only is the American edition more convenient and lower priced than the Eng- 

 lish ; it is also better and more complete. Some years having elapsed since the appearance 

 of a portion of the work, additions were required to bring up the subjects to the existing con- 

 dition of science. Some diseases, also, which are comparatively unimportant in England, 

 require more elaborate treatment to adapt the articles devoted to them to the wants of the 

 American physician ; and there are points on which the received practice in this country 

 differs from that adopted abroad. The supplying of these deficiencies has been undertaken 

 by HENRY HARTSHORNE, M. D., late Professor of Hygiene in the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, who has endeavored to render the work fully up to the day, and as useful to the 

 American physician as it has proved to be to his English brethren. The number of illus- 

 trations has also been largely increased, and no effort spared to render the typographical 

 execution unexceptionable in every respect. 



There is no medical work which we have in 

 times past more frequently and fully consulted 

 when perplexed by doubts as to treatment, or by 

 having unusual or apparently inexplicable symp- 

 -toms presented to us. than "Reynolds' System of 

 Medicine." It contains just that kind of informa- 

 tion which the busy practitioner frequently finds 

 himself in need of. In order thatany deficiencies 

 may be supplied, the publishers have committed 

 "the preparation of the book for the press to Dr. 

 Henry Hartshorne, whose judicious notes distrib- 

 uted throughout the volume afford abundant evi- 

 dence of the thoroughness of the revision to which 

 he has subjected it. American Journal of the Med- 

 ical Sciences, Jan. 1880. 



Certainly no work with which we are acquainted 

 has ever been given to the English-reading profes- 

 sion which treats of so many diseases in a manner 

 so concise and thorough, and withal so lucid and 

 trustworthy. In that branch of medicine in which 

 the rank and file of the profession are mainly in- 

 terested, viz., the practical part, therapeutics, Rey- 

 nolds, without intending any invidious comparison, 

 stands pre-eminent. The therapeutics of the Eng- 

 lish correspond more closely than those of any 

 other country with those of this country, and the 

 American editor of Reynolds' has brought this 

 branch up to the most advanced American stand- 

 ard. Michigan Medical News, Feb. 15, 1880. 



WATSON, THOMAS, M. D., 



Late Physician in Ordinary to the Queen. 



Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Physic. Delivered at King's 

 College, London. A new American from the fifth English edition, revised and enlarged. 

 Edited, with additions, and 190 illustrations, by HENRY HARTSHORNE, A. M., M. D., late 

 Professor of Hygiene in the University of Pennsylvania. In two large and handsome octavo 

 -volumes, containing 1840 pages. Cloth, $9.00 ; leather, $11.00. 



