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It will be observed that notwithstanding the great increase in the cost of production, the subscrip- 

 tion price has been maintained at the former very moderate rate, which has long rendered them 

 among the 



CHEAPEST OF AMERICAN MEDICAL PERIODICALS. 



The publishers trust that this course will be responded to by the profession in a liberal increase 

 lo the subscription list. 



THE AMERICAN JOURNAL ~OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES, 

 EDITED BY ISAAC HAYS, M. D., 



is published Quarterly, on the first of January, April, July, and October. Each number contains 

 about two hundred and seventy large octavo pages, handsomely and appropriately illustrated, 

 wherever necessary. It has now been issued regularly for more than FORTY years, and it has been 

 under the control of the present editor for more than a quarter of a century. Throughout this 

 long period, it has maintained its position in the highest rank of medical periodicals both at home 

 and abroad, and has received the cordial support of the entire profession in this country. Its list of 

 Collaborators will be found to contain a large number of the most distinguished names of the pro- 

 fession in every section of the United States, rendering the department devoted to 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS 



full of varied and important matter, of great interest to all practitioners. 



As the aim of the Journal, however, is to combine the advantages presented by all the different 

 varieties of periodicals, in its 



REVIEW DEPARTMENT 



will be found extended and impartial reviews of all important new works, presenting subjects of 

 novelty and interest, together with very numerous 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES, 



including nearly all the medical publications of the day, both in this country and Great Britain, witi 

 a choice selection of the more important continental works. This is followed by the 



QUARTERLY SUMMARY, 



being a very full and complete abstract, methodically arranged, of the 



IMPROVEMENTS AND DISCOVERIES IN THE MEDICAL SCIENCES, 



This department of the Journal, so important to the practising physician, is the object of especial 

 care on the part of the editor. It is classified and arranged under different heads, thus facilitating: 

 the researches of the reader in pursuit of particular subjects, and will be found to present a very 

 full and accurate digest of all observations, discoveries, and inventions recorded in every branch of 

 medical science. The very extensive arrangements of the publishers are such as to afford to the 

 editor complete materials for this purpose, as he not only regularly receives 



ALL THE AMERICAN MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC PERIODICALS, 



but also twenty or thirty of the more important Journals issued in Great Britain and on the Conti- 

 nent, thus enabling him to present in a convenient compass a thorough and complete abstract of 

 everything interesting or important to the physician occurring in any part of the civilized world. 



To their old subscribers, many of whom have been on their list for twenty or thirty years, the 

 publishers feel that no promises for uie future are necessary; but those who may desire for the 

 first time to subscribe, can rest assured that no exertion will be spared to maintain the Journal in 

 the high position which it has occupied for so long a period. 



By reference to the terms it will be seen that, in addition to this large amount of valuable and 

 practical information on every branch of medical science, the subscriber, by paying in advance, 

 becomes entitled, without further charge, to 



THE MEDICAL NEWS AND LIBRARY, 



a monthly periodical of thirty-two large octavo pages. Its "NEWS DEPARTMENT" presents the 

 current information of the day, while the LIBRARY DEPARTMENT" is devoted to presenting stand- 

 ard works on various branches of rneaic.ne. Within a few years, subscribers have thus received, 



The work selected for the year 1864, commencing in the number for January, is 



CONSUMPTION; ITS EARLY AND REMEDIABLE STAGES, 



BY EDWARD SMITH, M. D., 



Assistant Physician to the Brompton Consumption Hospital, Sic. 



The special experience of the author in the treatment of this disease invests his work with a 

 practical authority which cannot but render it sati^fuctory to subscribers. 



It will thus be seen that for the small sum of FIVE DOLLARS, paid in advance, the subscriber 

 will obtain a Quarterly and a Monthly periodical, 



EMBRACING ABOUT FIFTEEN HUNDRED LARGE OCTAVO PAGES, 



Those subscribers who do not pay in advance will bear in mind that tneir subscription of Five 

 Dollars will entitle them to the .Journal only, without the News, and that they will be at the expense 

 of their own postage on the receipt of each number. The advantage of a remittance when order- 

 ing the Journal will thus be apparent. 



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