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A System of Practical Medicine. 



BY AMERICAN AUTHORS. 



EDITED BY WILLIAM PEPPER, M. D., LL. D., 



PROVOST AND PROFESSOR OP THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE AND OF 

 CLINICAL MEDICINE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 



Assisted by Louis STARR, M. D., Clinical Professor of the Diseases of Children in the 

 Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. 



The complete work, in five volumes, containing 5573 pages, with 198 illustrations, is now ready. 

 Price per volume, cloth, $5; leather, $6 ; half Russia, raised bands and open back, $7. 



In this great work American medicine is for the first time reflected by its worthiest 

 teachers, and presented in the full development of the practical utility which is its pre- 

 eminent characteristic. The most able men from the East and the West, from the 

 North and the South, from all the prominent centres of education, and from all the 

 hospitals which afford special opportunities for study and practice have united in 

 generous rivalry to bring together this vast aggregate of specialized experience. 



The distinguished editor has so apportioned the work that to each author has been 

 assigned the subject which he is peculiarly fitted to discuss, and in which his views 

 will be accepted as the latest expression of scientific and practical knowledge. The 

 practitioner will therefore find these volumes a complete, authoritative and unfailing work 

 of reference, to which he may at all times turn with full certainty of finding what he needs 

 in its most recent aspect, whether he seeks information on the general principles of medi- 

 cine, or minute guidance in the treatment of special disease. So wide is the scope of the 

 work that, with the exception of midwifery and matters strictly surgical, it embraces the 

 whole domain of medicine, including the departments for which the physician is accustomed 

 to rely on special treatises, such as diseases of women and children, of the genito-urinary 

 organs, of the skin, of the nerves, hygiene and sanitary science, and medical ophthalmology 

 and otology. Moreover, authors have inserted the formulas which they have found most 

 efficient in the treatment of the various affections. It may thus be truly regarded as a 

 COMPLETE LIBRARY OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE, and the general practitioner possessing it 

 may feel secure that he will require little else in the daily round of professional duties. 



In spite of every effort to condense the vast amount of practical information fur- 

 nished, it has been impossible to present it in less than 5 large octavo volumes, containing 

 about 5600 beautifully printed pages, and embodying the matter of about 15 ordinary 

 octavos. Illustrations are introduced wherever requisite to elucidate the text. 



, A detailed prospectus will be sent to any address on application to the publishers. 



These two volumes bring this admirable work 

 to a close, and fully sustain the high standard 

 reached by the earlier volumes; we have only 

 therefore to echo the eulogium pronounceu upon 

 them. We would warmly congratulate the editor 

 and his collaborators at the conclusion of their 

 laborious task on the admirable manner in which, 

 from first to last, they have performed their several 

 duties. They have succeeded in producing a 

 work which will long remain a standard work of 

 reference, to which practitioners will look for 

 guidance, and authors will resort for facts. 

 From a literary point of view, the work is without 

 any serious blemish, and in respect of production, 

 it has the beautiful finish that Americans always 

 give their works. Edinburgh Medical Journal. Jan. 

 1887. 



* * The greatest distinctively American work on 

 the practice of medicine, and, indeed, the super- 

 lative adjective would not be inappropriate were 

 even all other productions placed in comparison. 

 An examination of the five volumes is sufficient 

 to convince one of the magnitude of the enter- 

 prise, and of the success which has attended its 

 fulfilment. The Medical Age, July 26, 1886. 



This huge volume forms a fitting close to the 



treat system of medicine which in so short a time 

 as won so high a place in medical literature, and 

 has done such credit to the profession in this 

 country. Among the twenty-tnree contributors 

 are the names of the leading neurologists in 

 America, and most of the work in the volume is of 

 the highest order. Boston Medical and Surgical 

 Journal, July 21, 1887. 



We consider it one of the grandest works on 

 Practical Medicine in the English language. It is 

 a work of which the profession of this country can 

 feel proud. Written exclusively by American 



physicians who are acquainted with all the varie 

 ties of climate in the United States, the character 

 of the soil, the manners and customs of the peo- 

 ple, etc., it is peculiarly adapted to the wants 

 of American practitioners of medicine, and it 

 seems to us that every one of them would desire 

 to have it. It has been truly called a " Complete 

 Library of Practical Medicine," and the general 

 practitioner will require little else in his round 

 of professional duties. Cincinnati Medical News, 

 March, 1886. 



Each of the volumes is provided with a most 

 copious index, and the work altogether promises 

 to be one which will add much to the medical 

 literature of the present century, and reflect great 

 credit upon the scholarship and practical acumen 

 of its authors. The London Lancet, Oct. 3, 1885. 



The feeling of proud satisfaction with which the 

 American profession sees this, its representative 

 system of practical medicine issued to the medi- 

 cal world, is fully justified by the character of the 

 work. The entire caste of the system is in keep- 

 ing with the best thoughts of the leaders and fol- 

 lowers of our home school of medicine, and the 

 combination of the scientific study of disease and 

 the practical application of exact and experimen- 

 tal knowledge to the treatment of 'human mal- 

 adies, makes every one of us share in the pride 

 that has welcomed Dr. Pepper's labors. Sheared 

 of the prolixity that wearies the readers of the 

 German school, the articles glean these same 

 fields for all that is valuable. It is the outcome 

 of American brains, and is marked throughout 

 by much of the sturdy independence of thought 

 and originality that is a national characteristic. 

 Yet nowhere is there lack of study of the most 

 advanced views of the day. North Carolina Medi- 

 cal Journal, Sept. 1886. 



