BLANCHARD & LEA'S MEDICAL 



GROSS (SAMUEL D.), M. D., 



Professor of Surgery in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Ac. 



Enlarged Edition. 



A SYSTEM OF SURGERY : Pathological, Diagnostic, Therapeutic, and Opera- 

 tive. Illustrated by TWELVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN ENGRAVINGS. Second edition, 

 much enlarged and carefully revised. In two large and beautifully printed octavo volumes, of 

 about twenty-two hundred pages ; strongly bound in leather. Price $13. 



The exhaustion in little more than two years of a large edition of so elaborate and comprehen- 

 sive a work as this is the best evidence that the author was not mistaken in his estimate of the 

 want which existed of a complete American System of Surgery, presenting the science in all its 

 necessary details and in all its branches. That he has succeeded in the attempt to supply this want 

 is shown not only by the rapid sale of the work, but also by the very favorable manner in which it 

 has been received by the organs of the profession in this country and in Europe, and by the fact that 

 a translation is now preparing in Holland a mark of appreciation not often bestowed on any scien- 

 tific work so extended in size. 



The author has not been insensible to the kindness thus bestowed upon his labors, and in revising 

 the work for a new edition he has spared no pains to render it worthy of the favor with which it 

 has been received. Every portion has been subjected to close examination and revision ; any defi- 

 ciencies apparent have been supplied, and the results of recent progress in the science and art oi 

 surgery have been everywhere introduced ; while the series of illustrations has been enlarged by 

 the addition of nearly three hundred wood-cuts, rendering it one of the most thoroughly illustrated 

 works ever laid before the profession. To accommodate these very extensive additions, the work 

 has been printed upon a smaller type, so that notwithstanding the very large increase in the matter 

 and value of the book, its size is more convenient and less cumbrous than before. Every care has 

 been taken in the printing to render the typographical execution unexceptionable, and it is confi- 

 dently presented as a work in every way worthy of a place in even the most limited library of the 

 practitioner or student. 



Has Dr. Gross satisfactorily fulfilled this object? 

 A careful perusal of his volumes enables us to give 

 an answer in the affirmative. Not only has he given 

 to the reader an elaborate and well-written account 

 of his osyn vast experience, but he has not failed to 

 embody in his pages the opinions and practice of 

 surgeons in this and other countries of Europe. The 

 result has been a work of such completeness, that it 

 has no superior in the systematic treatises on sur- 

 gery which have emanated from English or Conti- 

 nental authors. It has been justly objected that 

 these have been far from complete in many essential 

 particulars, many of them having been deficient in 

 some of the most important points which should 

 characterize such works. Some of them have been 

 elaborate top elaborate with respect to certain 

 diseases, while they have merely glanced at, or 

 given an unsatisfactory account of, others equally 

 important to the surgeon. Dr. Gross has avoided 

 this error, and has produced the most complete work 

 that has yet issued from the press on the science and 

 practice of surgery. It is not, strictly speaking, a 

 Dictionary of Surgery, but it gives to the reader all 

 the information that he may require for his treatment 

 of surgical diseases. Having said so much, it might 

 appear superfluous to add another word; but it is 

 only due to Dr. Gross to state that he has embraced 

 the opportunity of transferring to his pages a vast 



Of Dr. Gross's treatise on Surgery we can say 

 no more than that it is the most elaborate and com- 

 plete work on this branch of the healing art which 

 has ever been published in any country. A sys- 

 tematic work, it admits of no analytical review; 

 but, did our space permit, we should gladly give 

 some extracts from it, to enable our readers to judge 

 of the classical style of the author, and the exhaust- 

 ing way in which each subject is treated. Dublin 

 Quarterly Journal of Med. Science. 



The work is so superior to its predecessors in 

 matter and extent, as well as in illustrations and 

 style of publication, that we can honestly recom- 

 mend it as the best work of the kind to be taken 

 home by the young practitioner Am. Med. Journ. 



With pleasure we record the completion of this 

 long-anticipated work. The reputation which the 

 author has for many years sustained, both as a sur- 

 geon and as a writer, had prepared us to expect a 

 treatise of great excellence and originality: but we 

 confess we were by no means prepared for the work 

 which is before us the most complete treatise upon 

 surgery ever published, either in this or any other 

 country, and we might, perhaps, safely say, the 

 most original. There is no subject belonging pro- 

 perly to surgery which has uot received from the 

 author a due share of attention. Dr. Gross has sup- 



plied a want in surgical literature which has long 

 been felt by practitioners; he has furnished us with 

 a complete practical treatise upon surgery in all its 

 departments. As Americans, we are proud of the 

 achievement ; as surgeons, we are most sincerely 

 thankful to him for his extraord nary labors in our 

 behalf. N. Y. Review and Buffalo Med. Journal. 



number of engravings from English and other au- 

 thors, illustrative of the pathology and treatment of 

 surgical diseases. To these are added several hun- 

 dred original wood-cuts. The work altogether com- 

 mends itself to the attention of British surgeons, 

 from whom it cannot fail to meet with extensive 

 patronage. London Lancet, Sept. 1, 1860. 



BY THE SAME AUTHOR. 



ELEMENTS OF PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY. Third edition, thoroughly 



revised and greatly improved. In one large and very handsome octavo volume, with about three 



hundred and fifty beautiful illustrations, of which a large number are from original drawings, 



extra cloth. $4 75. 



The very rapid advances in the Science of Pathological Anatomy during the last few years have 

 rendered essential a thorough modification of this work, with a view of making it a correct expo- 

 nent of the present state of the subject. The very careful manner in which this task has been 

 executed, and the amount of alteration which it has undergone, have enabled the author to say that 

 " with the many changes and improvements now introduced, the work may be regarded almost as 

 a new treatise," while the efforts of the author have been seconded as regards the mechanical 

 execution of the volume, rendering it one of the handsomest productions of the American press. 



We most sincerely congratulate the author on the We have been favorably impressed with the gene- 



successful manner in which he has accomplished his 

 proposed object. His book is most admirably cal- 

 culated to fill up a blank which has long been felt to 

 exist in this department of medical literature, and 

 as such must become very widely circulated amongst 

 all classes of the profession. Dublin Quarterly 

 Journ. of Med. Science, Nov. 1857. 



ral manner in which Dr. Gross has executed his task 

 of affording a comprehensive digest of the present 

 state of the literature of Pathological Anatomy , and 

 have much pleasure in recommending his work to 

 our readers, as we believe one well deserving of 

 diligent perusal and careful study. Montreal Med, 



Chron., Sept. 1857. 

 BY THE SAME AUTHOR. 



A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON FOREIGN BODIES IN THE AIR-PAS- 



SAGES. Jn one handsome octavo volume, extra cloth, with illustrations, pp. 468. $2 75. 



