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WILSON (ERASMUS), F. R. S. 

 ON DISEASES OF THE SKIN. Fifth American, from the Fifth enlarged 



London edition. In one handsome octavo volume, of nearly 700 large pages, with illustrations 



on wood, extra cloth. $3 25. (Now Ready, May, 1863.) 



This classical work, which for twenty years has occupied the position of the leading authority 

 in the English language on its important subject, has just received a thorough revision at the hands 

 of the author, and is now presented as embodying the results of the latest investigations and expe- 

 rience on all matters connected with diseases of the skin. The increase in the size of the work 

 shows the industry of the author, and his determination that it shall maintain the position which it 

 has acquired as thoroughly on a level with the most advanced condition of medical science. 

 f the last edition are appended. 



No matter what other treatises may be in the libra- 

 ry of the medical attendant, he needs the clear and 

 suggestive counsels of Wilson, who is thoroughly 

 posted up on all subjects connected with cutaneous 

 pathology. We have, it is very true, other valuable 

 works on the maladies that invade the skin; but, 

 compared with the volume under consideration, they 

 are certainly to be regarded as inferior lights in guid- 

 ing the judgment of the medical man. Boston Med. 

 and Surg. Journal, Oct. 1857. 



The author adopts a simple and entertaining style. 

 He strives to clear away the complications of his 

 subject, and has thus produced a book filled with a 

 vast amount of information, in a form so agreeable 

 as to make it pleasant reading, even to the uninitiated. 

 More especially does it deserve our praise because of 

 its beautiful and complete atlas, which the American 

 publishers have successfully imitated from the origi- 

 nal plates. We pronounce them by far the best imi- 

 tations of nature yet published in our country. With 

 the text-book and atlas at hand, the diagnosis is ren- 

 dered easy and accurate, and the practitioner feels 

 himself safe in his treatment. We will add that this 

 work, although it must have been very expensive to 

 the publishers, is not high priced. There is no rea- 

 son, then, to prevent every physician from obtaining 

 a work of such importance, and one which will save 

 him both labor and perplexity. Fa. Med. Journal. 



As a practical guide to the classification, diagnosis, 

 and treatment of the diseases of the skin, the book is 

 complete. We know nothing, considered in this as- 

 pect, better in our language ; it is a safe authority on 

 all the ordinary matters which, in this range of dis- 

 eases, engage the practitioner's attention, and pos- 

 sesses the high quality unknown, we believe, to 

 every older manual, of being on a level with science's 

 high-water mark : a sound book of practice. London 

 Med. Times. 



A few notices of the last edition are appended. 



The writings of Wilson, upondiseasesof the skin, 

 are by far the most scientific and practical that 

 have ever been presented to the medical world on 

 this subject. The present edition is a great improve- 

 ment on all its predecessors. To dwell upon all the 

 great merits and high claims of the work before us, 

 seriatim, would indeed be an agreeable service ; it 

 would be a mental homage which we could freely 

 offer, but we should thus occupy an undue amount 

 of space in this Journal. We will, however, look 

 at some of the more salient points with which it 

 abounds, and which make itincompara oiy superior to 

 all other treatises on the subject of dennatology. No 

 mere speculative views are allowed a place in this 

 volume, which, without a doubt. will, for a very long 

 period, be acknowledged as the chief standard work 

 on dermatology. The principles of an enlightened 

 and rational tnerapeia are introduced on every ap- 

 propriate occasion. Am. Jour. Med Science. 



When the first edition of this work appeared; 

 about fourteen years ago, Mr. Erasmus \Vilson had 

 already given some years to the study of Diseases 

 of the Skin, and he then expressed his intention of 

 devoting his future life to the elucidation of this 

 branch of Medical Science. In the present edition 

 Mr. Wilson presents us with the results of his ma- 

 tured experience, and we have now before us not 

 merely a reprint of his former publications, but an 

 entirely new and rewritten volume. Thus, the whole 

 history of the diseases affecting the skin, whether 

 they originate in that structure or are the mere mani- 

 festations of derangement of internal, organs, is 

 brought under notice, and the book includes a mass 

 of information which is spread over a great part of 

 the domain of Medical and Surgical Pathology. We 

 can safely recommend it to the profession as the 

 best work on the subject now in existence in the En- 

 glish language. London Med. Times and Gazette. 



* ALSO, NOW READY, 



A SERIES OF PLATES ILLUSTRATING WILSON ON DISEASES OF 



THE SKIN; consisting of twenty beautifully executed plates, of which thirteen are exquisitely 

 colored, presenting the Normal Anatomy and Pathology of the Skin, and containing accurate re- 

 presentations of about one hundred varieties of disease, most of them the size of nature. Price 

 in cloth. $4.50. 

 In beauty of drawing and accuracy and finish of coloring these plates will be found equal to 



anything of the kind as yet issued in this country. The value of the new edition is enhanced by 



an'additional colored plate. 



We have already expressed our high appreciation 

 of Mr. Wilson's treatise on Diseases of the Skin. 

 The plates are comprised in a separate volume, 

 which we counsel all those who possess the text to 

 purchase. It is a beautiful specimen of color print- 

 ing, and the representations of the various forms of 

 skin disease are as faithful as is possible in plates 

 of the size. Boston Med. and Surg. Journal. April 

 8, 185d. 



The plates by which this edition is accompanied 

 leave nothing to be desired, so far as excellence of 

 delineation and perfect accuracy of illustration are 

 concerned. Medico-Chirurgical Review. 



Of these plates it is impossible to speak too highly. 

 The representations of the various forms of cutane- 

 ous disease are singularly accurate, and the color- 

 ing exceeds almost anything we have met with. 

 British and Foreign Medical Review. 



ALSO, the TEXT and PLATES done up in one handsome volume, extra cloth, price $7 50. 



BY THE SAME AUTHOR. 



THE DISSECTOR'S MANUAL; or, Practical and Surgical Anatomy. Third 



American, from the last revised and enlarged English edition. Modified and rearranged, by 

 WILLIAM HUNT, M. D., Demonstrator of Anatomy in the University ot Pennsylvania. In one 

 large and handsome royal 12mo. volume, extra-cloth, of 582 pages, with 154 illustrations, $2 00. 



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ON CONSTITUTIONAL AND HEREDITARY SYPHILIS, AND ON 



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HEALTHY SKIN; A Popular Treatise on the Skin and Hair, their Preserva- 

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