HENRY C. LEA'S SON & Co.'s PUBLICATIONS Practice of Med. 15 

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THE 



AMERICAN SYSTEM OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE. 



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



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

 CLINICAL MEDICINE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



In fice imperial octavo volumes, containing about 1000 pages each, with illustrations. 



Volume I., now in press. 



The publishers feel pardonable pride in announcing this magnificent work. For 

 three years it has been in active preparation, and it is now in a sufficient state of forward- 

 ness to justify them in calling the attention of the profession to it as the work in which 

 for the first time American medicine will be thoroughly represented by its worthiest 

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

 preeminent 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 of 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 each author has had 

 assigned to him 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 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 medicine, 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. 



Although every effort has been made to avoid the introduction of matters purely 

 speculative, and to condense, as far as possible, the vast amount of practical information 

 furnished, yet the accumulation of indispensable material has been such that it has not 

 been practicable to present it in less than five splendid imperial octavo volumes, containing 

 about 5000 beautifully printed pages, and embodying the matter of about fifteen ordinary 

 octavos. Such illustrations as serve really to elucidate the subject have been introduced, 

 but the editor has done this with a sparing hand, feeling that space might be occupied 

 more usefully and worthily than by superfluous pictures. 



As a work of which every American physician may reasonably feel proud, and in 

 which every practitioner will find a safe and trustworthy counsellor in the daily responsi- 

 bilities of practice, the publishers confidently anticipate a circulation unexampled in the 

 annals of medical literature. 



The material for the work is substantially complete in the hands of the editor, and as 

 the printing is progressing as rapidly as is consistent with the accuracy indispensable in a 

 work of this nature, the profession may look for the first volume in the fall, and for the 

 subsequent volumes at reasonable intervals thereafter. 



A detailed prospectus of the work will be mailed to any address on application to the 

 publishers. 



REYNOLDS, J. RUSSELL, M. D., 



Profestor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine in University College, London. 

 A System, of Medicine. With notes and additions by HENRY HARTSHORNE, 

 A. M., M. D., late Professor of Hygiene in the University of Pennsylvania. In three large 

 and handsome octavo volumes, containing 3056 double-columned pages, with 317 illustra- 

 tions. Price per volume, cloth, $5.00 ; sheep, $6.00 ; very handsome half Kussia, raised bands, 

 $6.50. Per set, cloth, $15; leather, $18; half Russia, $19.50. Sold only by subscription. 



There is no medical work which we have in may be supplied, the publishers have committed 

 times past more frequently and fully consulted the preparation of the book for the press to Dr. 

 when perplexed by doubts as to treatment, or by j Henry Hartshorne, whose judicious notes distril>- 

 having unusual or apparently inexplicable symp- I uted throughout the volume afford abundant evi- 

 toms presented to us, than "Reynolds' System of | dence of the thoroughness of the revision to which 

 Medicine." It contains just that kind of informa- he has subjected it. American Journal of the Med- 



tion which the busy practitioner frequently finds 

 himself in need of. In order that any deficiencies 



ical Sciences, Jan. 1880. 



