22 HENRY C. LEA'S SON & Co.'s PUBLICATIONS Surgery. 



HOLMES, TIMOTHY, M. A., 



Surgeon and Lecturer on Surgery at St. George's Hospital, London. 



A System of Surgery ; Theoretical and Practical. IN TREATISES BY 

 VARIOUS AUTHORS. AMERICAN EDITION, THOROUGHLY REVISED AND RE-EDITED 

 by JOHN H. PACKARD, M. D., Surgeon to the Episcopal and St. Joseph's Hospitals, 

 Philadelphia, assisted by a corps of thirty-three of the most eminent American surgeons. 

 In three large and very handsome imperial octavo volumes containing 3137 double- 

 columned pages, with 979 illustrations on wood and 13 lithographic plates, beautifully 

 colored. Price per volume, cloth, $6.00 ; leather, $7.00 ; half Russia, 7.50. Per set, cloth,. 

 $18.00 ; leather, $21.00 ; half Russia, $22.50. Sold only by subscription. 



VOLUAIE I. contains GENERAL PATHOLOGY, MORBID PROCESSES, INJURIES IN GEN- 

 ERAL, COMPLICATIONS OF INJURIES AND INJURIES OF REGIONS* 



VOLUME II. contains DISEASES OF ORGANS OF SPECIAL SENSE, CIRCULATORY SYS- 

 TEM, DIGESTIVE TRACT AND GENITO-URINARY ORGANS. 



VOLUME III. contains DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS, BONES, JOINTS AND- 

 MUSCLES, DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, GUNSHOT WOUNDS, OPERATIVE AND 

 MINOR SURGERY, AND MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS (including an essay on HOSPITALS). 



This great work, issued some years since in England, has won such universal confi- 

 dence wherever the language is spoken that its republication here, in a form more 

 thoroughly adapted to the wants of the American practitioner, has seemed to be a duty 

 owing to the profession. To accomplish this, each article has been placed in the hands of 

 a gentleman specially competent to treat its subject, and no labor has been spared to bring- 

 each one up to the foremost level of the times, and to adapt it thoroughly to the practice 

 of the country. In certain cases this has rendered necessary the substitution of an entirely 

 new essay for the original, as in the case of the articles on Skin Diseases and on Diseases- 

 of the Absorbent System, where the views of the authors have been superseded by the 

 advance of medical science, and new articles have therefore been prepared by Drs. Arthur 

 Van Harlingen and S. C. Busey, respectively. So also in the case of Anaesthetics, in the use 

 of which American practice differs from that of England, the original has been supple- 

 mented with a new essay by J. C. Reeve, M. D. The same careful and conscientious- 

 revision has been pursued throughout, leading to an increase of nearly one-fourth in 

 matter, while the series of illustrations has been nearly trebled, and the whole is presented 

 as a complete exponent of British and American Surgery, adapted to the daily needs of 

 the working practitioner. 



In order to bring it within the reach of every member of the profession, the five vol- 

 umes of the original have been compressed into three by employing a double-columned 

 royal octavo page, and in this improved form it is offered at less than one-half the price of the 

 original. It is printed and bound to match in every detail with Reynolds' System of Medi- 

 cine. The work will be sold by subscription only, and in due time every member of the 

 profession will be called upon and offered an opportunity to subscribe. 



The authors of the original English edition are 

 men of the front rank in England, and Dr. Packard 

 has been fortunate in securing as his American 

 coadjutors such men as Bartholow, Hyde, Hunt, 

 Conner, Stimson, Morton, Hodgen, Jewell and 

 their colleagues. As a whole, the work will be 

 solid and substantial, and a valuable addition to 

 the library of any medical man. It is more wieldly 

 and more useful than the English edition, and with 

 its companion work " Reynolds' System of Medi- 

 cine " will well represent the present state of our 

 science. One who is familiar with those two works 

 will be fairly well furnished head-wise and hand- 

 wise. The Medical News, Jan. 7, 1882. 



This work is cyclopsedic in character, and every 

 subject is treated in an exhaustive manner. It is 

 especially designed for a reference book, which 

 every practising surgeon should have under hand 

 in cases which require more than ordinary knowl- 

 edge. Chicago Med. Journ. and Exam., Feb. 1882. 



Great credit is due to the American editor and 



easy reach of American surgeons a work which has 

 been received with such universal favor on the 

 other side of the Atlantic as Holmes' System of 

 Surgery. In the list of English contributors to the 

 first volume we find the names of such well-known 

 surgeons as Sir James Paget, Simon, Savory, Cal- 

 lender, Barclay, and others equally distinguished ; 

 while among the American revisers we recog- 

 nize men of no less celebrity. With regard to the 

 mechanical execution of the work, neither pains 

 nor money seem to have been spared by the pub- 

 lishers. Med. and Surg. Reporter, Sept. 14, 1881. 



In the revision of the work for the American 

 edition not only has provision been made for a 

 recognition of the advances made in our knowledge 

 during the ten years since its first publication, 

 but also for a presentation of the variations in 

 practice which characterize American surgery and 

 distinguish it from that of Great Britain. The 

 work is one which we take pleasure in com- 

 mending to the notice of our readers as an ency- 

 clopaedia of surgical knowledge and practice. 



his co-laborers for revising and bringing within ' St. Louis Courier of Medicine, Nov. 1881. 



HOLMES, TIMOTHY, M. A. 



Surgery, Its Principles and Practice. In one handsome octavo volume of 

 968 pages, with 411 illustrations. Cloth, $6.00; leather, $7.00; half Russia, $7.50. 



Mr. Holmes is a surgeon of large and varied ex- It will be found a most excellent epitome of sur- 

 perience, and one of the best known, and perhaps gery by the general practitioner who has not the 



the most brilliant writer upon surgical subjects in 



time to give attention to more minute and extend- 



England. It is a book for students and an admi- j ed works, and to the medical student. In fact, we 



rable one and for the busy general practitioner, know of no one we can more cordially recom- 



It will give a student all the knowledge needed to mend. The author has succeeded well in giv- 



pass a rigid examination. The book fairly justifies ing a plain and practical account of each surgical 



the high expectations that were formed or it. Its : injury and disease, and of the treatment which is 



style is clear and forcible, even brilliant at times, j most commonly advisable. It will no doubt be- 



and the conciseness needed to bring it within its come a popular work in the profession, and espe- 



proper limits has not impaired its force and dis- cially as a text-book. Cincin. Med. News, April, 



tinctness. N. Y. Med. Record, April 14, 1876. 1876. 



