12 HENRY C. LEA'S PUBLICATIONS (Mat.Med. and Therapeutics). 



VTILLE (ALFRED), M.D., 



AJ Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine in the University of Penna. 



THERAPEUTICS AXD MATERIA MEDICA; a Systematic Treatise 



on the Action and Uses of Medicinal Agents, including their Description and History. 

 Third edition, revised and enlarged. In two large and handsome octavo volumes of about 

 1700 pages, extra cloth, $10 ; leather, $12. (Now Ready.) 



That two large editions of a work of such magnitude should be exhausted in a few years, is 

 sufficient evidence that it has supplied a want generally felt by the profession, and the unani- 

 mous commendation bestowed upon it by the medical press, abroad as well as at home, shows 

 that the author has successfully accomplished his object in presenting to the profession a system- 

 atic treatise suited to the wants of the practising physician, and unincumbered with details 

 interesting only to the naturalist or the dealer. Notwithstanding its enlargement, the present 

 edition has been kept at the former very moderate price. 



From the Preface to the Third Edition. 



Although the second edition of this work had for many months been out of print, the author 

 preferred to delay a new issue of it, rather than omit anything which appeared to be substantially 

 valuable among the recent advances of the science and art of Therapeutics. The subjects now 

 treated of for the first time, are : CHROMIC ACID; PERMANGANATE OP POTASSA ; THE SULPHITES 

 OF SODA, ETC.; CARBOLIC ACID; NITROUS OXIDE; RHIGOLENE ; and CALABAR BEAN. The 

 article on BROMINE has been prepared entirely anew ; and that on ELECTRICITY very materially 

 enlarged by an account of the most recent improvements in electrical apparatus, and in the appli- 

 cation of this agent to the cure of disease. The additions which have been mentioned, with 

 much new matter besides, which will be found under the more important titles, occupy nearly 

 one hundred pages. 



April, 1868. 



A few notices of former editions are subjoined. 



We have placed first on the list Dr. Stille's great hardly find a work written in a style more clear and 



work on Therapeutics. When the first edition of this 

 work made its appearance nearly five years ago, we 

 expressed our high sense of its value as containing a 

 full and philosophical account of the existing state 

 of Therapeutics. From the opinion expressed at that 

 time we have nothing to retract; we have, on the 

 contrary, to state that the introduction of numerous 

 additions has rendered the work even more complete 

 than formerly. We can cordially recommend to those 

 of our readers who are interested in Therapeutics a 

 careful perusal of Dr. Still6's work. Edinburgh Med. 

 Journal, 1865. 



An admirable digest of our present knowledge of 

 Materia Medica and Therapeutics. Am. Journ. Med. 

 Sciences, July, 1860. 



Dr. Stille's splendid work on therapeutics and ma- 

 teria medica. London Med. Times, April 8, 1865. 



We think this work will do much to obviate the 

 reluctance to a thorough investigation of this branch 

 of scientific study, for in the whole range of medical 

 literature treasured in the English tongue, we shall 



simple, conveying forcibly the facts taught, and yet 

 free from turgidity and redundancy. There is a fas- 

 cination in its pages that will insure to it a wide po- 

 pularity and attentive perusal, and a degree of use- 

 fulness not often attained through the influence of a 

 single work. The author has much enhanced the 

 practical utility of his book by passing briefly over 

 the physical, botanical, and commercial history of 

 medicines, and directing attention chiefly to their 

 physiological action, and their application for the 

 amelioration or cure of disease. Chicago Med. Jour- 

 nal, March, I860. 



It has held from its appearance in 1860, the place 

 it so well deserves, that of the best treatise on Thera- 

 peutics in the English language. A considerable 

 amount of new matter has been added to this edition 

 without increasing its bulk, and its general appear- 

 ance is all that could be desired of a work which 

 should find a place in the hand library of every stu- 

 dent and physician. Boston Med. and Surg. Jour- 

 nal, Dec. 15, 1864. 



QRIFFITH (ROBERT E.}, M.D. 



A UNIVERSAL FORMULARY, Containing the Methods of Pre- 

 paring and Administering Officinal and other Medicines. The whole adapted to Physicians 

 and Pharmaceutists. Second edition, thoroughly revised, with numerous additions, by 

 ROBERT P. THOMAS, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica in the Philadelphia College of 

 Pharmacy. In one large and handsome octavo volume of 650 pages, double-columns. 

 Extra cloth, $4 00; leather, $5 00. 



In this volume, the Formulary proper occupies over 400 double-column pages, and contains 

 about 5000 formulas, among which, besides those strictly medical, will be found numerous valuable 

 receipts for the preparation of essences, perfumes, inks, soaps, varnishes, &c. Ac. In addition to 

 this, the work contains a vast amount of information indispensable for daily reference by the prac- 

 tising physician and apothecary, embracing Tables of Weights and Measures, Specific Gravity, 

 Temperature for Pharmaceutical Operations, Hydrometrical Equivalents, Specific Gravities of some 

 of the Preparations of the Pharmacopoeias, Relation between different Thermometrical Scales, 

 Explanation of Abbreviations used in Formulas, Vocabulary of Words used in Prescriptions, Ob- 

 servations on the Management of the Sick Room, Doses of Medicines, Rules for the Administration 

 of Medicines, Management of Convalescence and Relapses, Dietetic Preparations not included in 

 the Formulary, List of Incompatibles, Posological Table, Table of Pharmaceutical Names which 

 differ in the Pharmacopoeias, Officinal Preparations and Directions, and Poisons. 



Three complete and extended Indexes render the work especially adapted for immediate consul- 

 tation. One, of DISEASES AND THEIR REMEDIES, presents under the head of each disease the 

 remedial agents which have been usefully exhibited in it, with reference to the formulae containing 

 them while another of PHARMACEUTICAL and BOTANICAL NAMES, and a very thorough GENERAL 

 INDEX afford the means of obtaining at once any information desired. The Formulary itself is 

 arranged alphabetically, under the heads of the leading constituents of the prescriptions. 



We know of none in our language, or any other, so 

 comprehensive in ita details. London Lancet. 



This is one of the most useful books for the prac- 

 tising physician which has been issued from the press 

 of late yoars, containing a vast variety of formulas 

 for the safe and convenient administration of modi- 

 cines, all arranged upon scientific and rational prin- 

 ciples, with the quantities stated in full, without 

 signs or abbreviations. Memphis Med. Recorder. 



One of the most complete works of the kind in any 

 language. Edinburgh Med. Journal. 



We are not cognizant of the existence of a parallel 

 work. London Med. Gazette. 



