READY JAN. I, 1897. SOLD BY SUBSCRIPTION. 



ANOMALIES 



AND 



CURIOSITIES OF MEDICINE. 



BY 



GEORGE M. GOULD, M. D., 



AND 



WALTER L. PYLE, M. D. 



Several years of exhaustive research have been spent by the authors 

 in the great medical libraries of the United States and Europe in col- 

 lecting the material for this work. Medical literature of all ages 

 and all languages has been carefully searched, as a glance at the 

 Bibliographic Index will show. The facts, which will be of extreme 

 value to the author and lecturer, have been arranged and anno- 

 tated, and full reference footnotes given, indicating whence they have 

 been obtained. 



In view of the persistent and dominant interest in the anomalous 

 and curious, a thorough and systematic collection of this kind 

 (the first of which the authors have knowledge) must have its own 

 peculiar sphere of usefulness. 



As a complete and authoritative Book of Reference it will be 

 of value not only to members of the medical profession, but to all 

 persons interested in general scientific, sociologic, and medico-legal 

 topics ; in fact, the general interest of the subject and the dearth of 

 any complete work upon it make this volume one of the most 

 important literary innovations of the day. 



An especially valuable feature of the book consists of the Indexing. 

 Besides a complete and comprehensive General Index, containing 

 numerous cross-references to the subjects discussed, and the names 

 of the authors of the more important reports, there is a convenient 

 Bibliographic Index and a Table of Contents. 



The plan has been adopted of printing the topical headings in 

 bold-face type, the reader being thereby enabled to tell at a glance 

 the subject-matter of any particular paragraph or page. 



Illustrations have been freely employed throughout the work, 

 there being 165 relief cuts and 130 half-tones in the text, and 12 

 colored and half-tone full-page plates a total of over 320 separate 

 figures. 



The careful rendering of the text and references, the wealth of illus- 

 trations, the mechanical skill represented in the typography, the print- 

 ing, and the binding, combine to make this book one of the most 

 attractive medical publications ever issued. 



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