MEDICAL BRIEFS. 



A new series of short, concise compends for the Med- 

 ical Student and Practitioner. 



i2mo. Cloth. Price of Each Book, $1.00. 



No. i. POST-MORTEM EXAMINATIONS. 



-With Especial Reference to Medico- Legal Practice. 

 By Prof. RUDOLPH VIRCHOW, of Berlin Charite Hos- 

 pital, author of Cellular Pathology ; Translated by T. 

 P. SMITH, M.D., Member of the Royal College of Sur- 

 geons of England. 2d American, from the 4th German 

 Edition. With new Plates. Illustrated by Four Litho- 

 graphs. 



" We are informed in precise and exact terms how a post-mortem 

 examination should be made, both with regard to the plan to be 

 pursued, and the manner of making the several cuts into the various 

 organs and tissues. The method of recording the results of the 

 investigation is clearly indicated by the addition of the detailed 

 account of the examination of four cases ; and the value of the ob- 

 jective evidence is accurately stated in the form of the inferences 

 drawn concerning the manner and cause of death." American 

 Journal of Medical Sciences. 



No. 2. MANUAL OF VENEREAL DISEASES. 



A Concise Description of those Affections and of their 

 Treatment, including a list of SIXTY-SEVEN PRESCRIP- 

 TIONS for Vapor Bath, Gargles, Injections, Lotions, 

 Mixtures, Ointments, Paste, Pills, Powders, Solutions 

 and Suppositories. By BERKELEY HILL, M.D., Pro 

 fessor of Clinical Surgery in University College ; Sur- 

 geon to University College and Lock Hospitals; and 

 ARTHUR COOPER, M.D., formerly House Surgeon, Lock 

 Hospital, London. 4th Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 



" I have examined it with care, and find it to be a practical and 

 useful compendium of knowledge on the subjects discussed, well 

 adapted to the use of medical students and those physicians in 

 general practice who have occasional need to consult a work of this 

 kind." -James Nei'ens Hyde, M.D., Professor of Skin and Venereal 

 Diseases^ Rush Medical College, Chicago. 



No. 3. MEDICAL ELECTRICITY. A Com- 



pend of Electricity and its Medical and Surgical Uses. 

 By CHAS. F. MASON, M.D., Ass't Surg. U. S. Army; 

 with an introduction by CHARLES H. MAY, M.D., 

 Instructor in Ophthalmology, New York Polyclinic. 

 Illustrated. 



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