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BLANCHARD & LEA'S MEDICAL 



HAMILTON (FRANK H.), M. D., 



Professor of Surgery in the Long Island College Hospital. 



A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS. 



Second edition, revised and improved. In one large and handsome octavo volume, of over 750 

 pages, with nearly 300 illustrations, extra cloth, $4 15. (Just Ready, May, 1863.) 



The early demand for a new edition of this work shows that it has been successful in securing 

 the confidence of the profession as a standard authority for consultation and reference on it* import- 

 ant and difficult subject. In again passing it through the press, the author has taken the opportu- 

 nity to revise it carefully, and introduce whatever improvements have been suggested by further 

 experience and observation. An additional chapter on Gun-shot Fractures will be found to adapt 

 it still more fully to the exigencies of the time. 



Among the many good workers at surgery of whom 

 America may now boast n ot the leapt is F rank Hast- 

 ings Hamilton; and the volume before us is (we say 



it with a pang of wounded patriotism) the best and 

 handiest book on the subject in the English lan- 

 guage. It is in vain to attempt a review of it; 

 nearly as vain to seek for any sins, either of com- 

 mission or omission. We have seen no work on 

 practical surgery which we would sooner recom- 

 mend to our brother surgeons, especially those of 

 " the services," or those whose practice lies in di 



When we say, however, that we believe it will at 

 once take its place as the best book for consultation 

 by the practitioner ; and that it will form the most 

 complete, available, and reliable guide in emergen- 

 cies of every nature connected with its subjects ; and 

 also that the student of surgery may make it his text- 

 book with entire confidence, and with pleasure also, 

 from its agreeable and easy style we think our own 

 opinion may be gathered as to its value. Boston 

 Medical and Surgical Journal, March 1, 1860. 

 The work is concise, judicious, and accurate, and 



tricts where a man has necessarily to rely on his adapted to the wants of the student, practitioner, 

 own unaided resources. The practitioner will had and mves tigator, honorable to the author and to the 

 in it directions for nearly every possible aceiaent, | profession. Chicago Med. Journal. March. 1860. 

 easily found and comprehended ; and much pleasant ' 

 reading for him to muse over in the after considera- 



tion of his cases. Edinburg h Med. Journ. Feb . 1661. 



This is a valuable contribution to the surgery of 

 most important affections, and is the more welcome, 

 inasmuch as at the present time we do not possess 

 a single complete treatise on Fractures and Dislo- 

 cations in the English language. It has remained for 

 our American brother to produce a complete treatise 

 upon the subject, and bring together in a convenient 



We regard this work as an honor not only to its 

 author, but to the profession of our country. Were 

 we to review it thoroughly, we could not convey to 

 the mind of the reader more forcibly our honest 

 opinion expressed in the few words we think it the 

 best book of its kind extant. Every man interested 

 in surgery will soon have this work on his desk. 

 He who does not, will be the loser. New Orleans 

 Medical News, March, 1860. 



Dr. Hamilton is fortunate in having succeeded in 



form those alterations and improvements that have j filling . the void go i onff f e i t w j t h wnat cannot fail 

 been made from time to time in the treatment of these to be at once accepted as a model monograph in some 

 affections. One great and valuable feature in the I res p e cts, and a work of classical authority. \Ve 

 work before us is the fact that it comprises all the , sin ere iy congratulate the profession of the United 

 improvements introduced into the practice of both States on the appearanc e of such a publication from 

 English and American surgery, and though far from j one of their nu ^ ber . We have rea8 on to be proud 

 omitting mention of our continental neighbors, the j of it as an original work, both in a literary and s,:i- 

 author by no means encourages the notion but too j entific point 6 f view an ^ to esteera it as a valuable 

 prevalent in some quarters- that nothing is good ide in a moBt difficu i t and important branch of 

 unless imported from France or Germany. The gtudy and pract ice. On every account, therefore, 

 latter half of the work is devoted to the considera- we h ' o e that it may soon be wid ely known abroad 

 tion of the various dislocations and their appropri- as an evidence of genuine progress on this side of 



ate treatment, and its merit is fully equal to that of 

 the preceding portion. The London Lancet. May 5, 

 1860. 



It is emphatically the book upon the subjects of 

 which it treats, and we cannot doubt that it will 

 continue so to be for an indefinite period of time. 



the Atlantic, and further, that it may be still more 

 widely known at home as an authoritative teacher 

 from which every one may profitably learn, and as 

 affording an example of honest, well-directed, and 

 untiring industry in authorship whjch every surgeon 

 may emulate.- Am. Med. Journal, April, 1860. 



HODGE (HUGH L.), M. D., 



Professor of Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children in the University of Pennsylvania, &c. 



ON DISEASES PECULIAR TO WOMEN, including Displacements of the 



Uterus. "With original illustrations. In one beautifully printed octavo volume, of nearly 500 



pages, extra cloth. $3 25. 



recur these, taken in connection with the entire 

 competency of the author to render a correct ac- 

 count of their nature, their causes, and their appro- 

 priate management his ample experience, his ma- 

 tured judgment, and his perfect conscientiousness 

 invest this publication with an interest and value to 

 which few of the medical treatises of a recent date 

 can lay a stronger, if, perchance, an equal claim. 



'VVe will say at once that the work fulfils its object 

 capitally well: and we will moreover venture the 

 assertion that it will inaugurate an imnroved prac- 

 tice throughout this whole country. The secrets of 

 the author's success are so clearly revealed that the 

 attentive student cannot fail to insure a goodly por- 

 tion of similar success in his own practice. It is a 

 credit to all medical literature; and we add, that 

 the physician who does not place it in his library, 

 and who does not faithfully con its pages, will lose 

 a vast deal of knowledge that would be most useful 

 to himself and beneficial to his patients. It is a 

 practical work of the highest order of merit; and it 

 will take rank as such immediately. Maryland and 

 Virginia Medical Journal, Feb. 1861. 



This contribution towards the elucidation of the 

 pathology and treatment of some of the diseases 

 peculiar to women, cannot fail to meet with a favor- 

 able reception from the medical profession. The 

 character of the particular maladies of which the 

 work before us treats; their frequency, variety, and 

 obscurity ; the amount of malaise and even of actual 

 Buffering by which they are invariably attended; 

 their obstinacy, the difficulty with which they are 

 overcome, and tlieir disposition again and again to 



can lay a stronger, if, perchance, an c 

 Am. Journ. Med. Sciences, Jan. 1861. 



Indeed, although no part of the volume is not emi- 

 nently deserving of perusal and study, we think that 

 the nine chapters devoted to this subject, are espe- 

 cially so, and we know of no more valuable mono- 

 graph upon the symptoms, prognosis, and manage- 

 ment of these annoying maladies than is constituted 

 by this part of the work. We cannot but regard it 

 as one of the most original and m >st practical worts 

 of the day ; one which every accoucheur and physi- 

 cian should most carefully read; for we are per- 

 suaded that he will arise from its perusal with new 

 ideas, which will induct him int.o a more rational 

 practice in regard to many a suffering female, who 

 may have placed her health in his hands. British 

 American Journal, Feb. 1861. 



The illustrations, which are all original, are drawn to a uniform scale of one-half the natural size. 



