AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS. 



STILLE (ALFRED), M. D. 

 THERAPEUTICS AND MATERIA MEDIC A; a Systematic Treatise on the 



Action and Uses of Medicinal Agents, including their Description and History. In two large 



and handsome octavo volumes, of 1789 pages, leather. $9 00. 



This work is designed especially for the student and practitioner of medicine, and treats the various 

 articles of the Materia Medica from the point of view of the bedside, and not ot the shop or of the 

 lecture-room. While thus endeavoring to give all practical information likely to be useful with 

 respect to the employment of special remedies in special affections, and the results to be anticipated 

 from their administration, a copious Index of Diseases and their Remedies renders the work emi- 

 nently fitted for reference by showing at a glance ihe different means which have been employed, 

 and enabling the practitioner to extend his resources in difficult cases with all that the experience 

 of the profession has suggested. 



Rarely, indeed, have we had submitted to us a ; The most recent authority is the one last men- 

 work on medicine so ponderous in its dimensions ; tioned, Stille. His great work on " Materia Medi- 

 as that now before us, and yet so fascinating in its j ca and Therapeutics," published last year, in two 



octavo volumes, of some sixteen hundred pages, 

 while it embodies the results of the Isbor of others 



contents. It is, therefore, with a peculiar gratin- 

 cation that we recognize in Dr. Stille the posses- 

 sion of many of those more distinguished qualifica- 

 tions which entitle him to approbation, and which 



up to tne time of publication, is enriched with a 

 great amount of original observation and research. 



justify him in coming before his medical brethren i We would draw attention, by the way, to the very 

 as an instructor. A comprehensive knowledge, , convenient mode in which the Index is arranged in 

 tested by a sound and penetrating judgment, joined j this work. There is first an " Index of Remedies;' 

 to a love of progress which a discriminating spirit ' next an " Index of Diseases and their Remedies." 

 of inquiry has tempered so as to accept nothing new Such an arrangement of the Indices, in our opinion, 

 because it is new, and abandon nothing old because-; greatly enhances the practical value of books of this 

 it is old, but which estimates either accorting to its kind. In tedious, obstinate cases of disease, where 

 relations to a just logic and experience manifests j we have to try one remedy after another until our 

 itself everywhere, and gives to the guidance of the j stock is pretty nearly exhausted, and we are almost 

 author all the assurance of safety which the diffi- ! driven to our wit's end, such an index as the second 

 culties of his subject can allow. In conclusion, we j of the two just mentioned, is precisely what we 

 earnestly advise our readers to ascertain for thtrn- want. London Med. Times and Gazette, April, 1861 

 selves, by a study of Dr. Stille's volumes, the great We think thia work will do much to obviate tlie 

 value and interest of -the stores of knowledge , they reluctance to a tho rough investigation of thi s branch 

 present. We have pleasure in referring rather to of &cientl&c 8tudy fo f in the w f de ra e O f medical 

 the ample treasury of undoubted truths, the real and ; , lterature treasured in the English tonlue, we shal 

 assured conquest of medicine, accumulated by Dr. j toardl find a work written in | style m s ore ' clear 23 

 Stille in his pages ; and commend the sum of his la- ; 8im() i e cunveymg forcibly the facts taught, and yet 

 bors to the attention of our readers, as alike honor- , free from turgidny and redundancy. TlTere fsa fas- 

 and creditable to the zeal, the cination in f tg y that will J sure to u a a w ** e 

 [gmentof him wno has garnered ; popa i ar ity and attentive perusal, and a degree of 

 the whole so carefully .-Edinburgh Med. Journal. [ is fulnes s not often attained through the influence 

 We knew that the task would be conscientiously of a single work. The author has much enhanced 

 performed, and that few, if any, among the distm- the practical utility of his book by passing briefly 

 guished medical teachers in this country are better over the physical, botanical, and commercial history 

 qualified than he to prepare a systematic treatise of medicines, and directitg attention chiefly to their 

 on therapeutics in accordance with the present re- physiological action, and their application for the 

 quirements of medical science. Our preliminary amelioration or cure of disease. He ignores hypothe- 

 satisfied us that we si? and theory which are soalluring to many medical 



examination of the work has 



were not mistaken in our anticipations. 



leans Medical News, March, 1360. 



writers, and so liable to lead them astray, and con- 

 fines hinruelf to such facts as have been tried in the 

 crucible of experience. Chicago Medical Journal . 



SIMPSON (J. YJ, M. D., 



Professor of Midwifery, &c., in the University of Edinburgh, &e. 



CLINICAL LECTURES ON THE DISEASES OP WOMEN. With nu- 

 merous illustrations. In one handsome octavo volume, of over 500 pages, extra cloth, $3 00. 

 (Now Ready, 1863.) 



This valuable work having passed through the columns of " THE MEDICAL NEWS AND LIBRARY" 

 for I860, ISbl, and 1862, is now completed, and may be had separate in one handsome volume. 



The principal topics embraced in tne Lectures are Vet-ico- Vaginal Fistula, Cancer of the Uterus, 

 Treatment of Carcinoma by Caustics, Dysmeuorrhoea, Amenorrhoea, Closures, Contractions, &c., 

 of the Vagina, Vulvitis, Causes of Death after Surgical Operations, Surgical Fever, Phlegmasia 

 Dolens, Coccyodinia, Pelvic Cellulitis, Pelvic Haematoma, Spurious Pregnancy, Ovarian Dropsy, 

 Ovariotomy, Cranioclasm, Diseases of the Fallopian Tubes, Puerperal Mania, Sub-Involution and 

 Super-Involution of the Uterus, &c. &c. 



As a series of monographs on these important topics many of which receive little attention 

 in the ordinary text-books elucidated with the extensive experience and readiness of resource for 

 which Professor Simpson is so distinguished, there are few practitioners who will not find in it 

 pages matter of the utmost importance in the treatment of obscure and difficult cases. 



SALTER (H. t H.), M. D. 

 ASTHMA; its Pathology, Causes, Consequences, and Treatment. 



8vo., extra cloth. (Just Ready.) $175. 

 The portion of Dr. Sailer's work whish is devoted 

 to treatment, is ot great practical interesc and value 



Iii one Tol. 



convey a just notion of the practical value of this 

 part of hi* work. This our space forbius, and this 



He treats successively of the influence of the differ- we shall little regret, if, by our silence, we should 



ent drugs which have been found useful in relieving 

 the asthmatic paroxysm, so far as he has had an op- 

 portunity of testing their merits, and it would be 

 necessary to follow him step by step in his remarks, 

 not only on the medicinal, but also on the dietetic 

 and hygienic treatment of the disease, in order to 



ind uce our readers to possess themselves of the book 

 itself; a book which, without doubt, deserves to be 

 ranked among the most valuable of recent contribu- 

 tions to the medical literature of this country. 

 Ranking 's Abstract, Jan , 1961. 



