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HENRY C. LEA'S PUBLICATIONS (Surgery). 



tSTALES (PHILIP ) & &> Surgeon U. S. N. 



MECHANICAL THERAPEUTICS: a Practical Treatise on Surgical 



Apparatus, Appliances, and Elementary Operations : embracing Minor Surgery, Band- 

 aging, Orthopraxy, and the Treatment of Fractures and Dislocations. With six hundred 

 and forty-two illustrations on wood. In one large and handsome octavo volume of about 

 700 pages: extra cloth, $5 75; leather, $6 75. (Just Issued.) 



A Naval Medical Board directed to examine and report upon the merits of this volume, officially 

 states that " it should in our opinion become a standard work in the hands of every naval sur- 

 geon ;" and its adoption for use in both the Army and Navy of the United States is sufficient 

 guarantee of its adaptation to the needs of every-day practice. 



It is the completest book on these subjects we know 

 of, and it cannot fail to be exceedingly useful to the 

 busy practitioner, especially to the busy country phy- 

 sician who has thrown upon his care something of 

 surgery in its various details, with all manner of gene- 

 ral practice, and, therefore, may often wish to refresh 

 himself as to the most convenient and elegant modes 

 of dressings and manipulations. Cincinnati Lancet 

 and Observer, Jan. 1868. 



We have examined Dr. Wales' book with much 

 care, and believe that his labor will greatly benefit 

 the practitioner of surgery. It seems to us especially 

 beneficial to the country medical practitioner who is 

 surgeon, physician, and obstetrician, as occasion re- 

 quires. We commend the work to our readers as a 

 most useful one. Nashville Med. and Surg. Journal. 

 Jan. 1868. 



The title of this book will give a reasonably good 

 idea of its scope, but its merits can only be appreci- 

 ated by a careful perusal of its text. No one who un- 

 dertakes such a task will have any reason to com- 

 plain that the author has not performed his duty, and I 

 has not taken every pains to present every subject in 

 a clear, common-sense, and practical light. It is a 

 unique specimen of literature in its way, in that, 

 treating upon such a variety of subjects, it is as a 

 whole so completely up to the wants of the student 

 and the general practitioner. We have never seen 

 any work of its kind that can compete with it in real 

 utility and extensive adaptability. Dr. Wales per- 

 fectly understands what may naturally be required 

 of him in the premises, and in the work before us has 

 bridged over a very wide gap which has always here- 

 tofore existed between the first rudiments of surgery 

 and practical surgery proper. He has emphatically 

 given us a comprehensive work for the beginner ; and 

 when we say of his labors, that in their particular j 

 sphere they leave nothing to be desired, we assert a j 

 great deal to recommend the book to the attention of ! 

 those specially concerned. In conclusion, we would | 

 state, at the risk of reiteration, that this is the most | 

 comprehensive book on the subject that we have seen ; 

 is the best that can be placed in the hands of the stu- 

 dent in need of a first book on surgery, and the most 

 useful that can be named for such general practition- 

 ers who, without any special pretensions to surgery, 

 are occasionally liable to treat surgical cases. N. Y. 

 Med. Record, March 2, 1868. 



It is certainly the most complete and thorough work 

 of its kind in the English language. Students and 

 young practitioners of surgery will find it invaluable. 

 It will prove especially useful to inexperienced coun- 

 try practitioners, who are continually required to 

 take charge of surgical cases, under circumstances 

 precluding them from the aid of experienced surgeons. 

 Pacific Med. and Surg. Journal, Feb. 1868. 

 ^ This is a most complete and elegant work of 673 

 pages, and is certainly well deserving of the com- 

 mendation of every American surgeon. This work, 

 besides its usefulness as a reference for practitioners, 

 is most admirably adapted as a text-book for students. 

 Its 642 illustrations in wood-cuts, represent every man- 

 ner of surgical appliance, together with a minute de- 

 scription of each, the name of its inventor, and its prac- 

 tical utility in mechanical surgery. There is, perhaps, 

 no work in the English language so complete in the 

 description and detail of surgical apparatus and ap- 

 pliances as this one. The entire work entitles the au- 

 thor to great credit for his clear and distinct style as 

 a writer, as well as for his accuracy of observation 

 and great research in the field of surgery. We ear- 

 nestly recommend every member of the profession to 

 add a copy of it to his library, with the assurance 

 that he will find some useful suggestion in the treat- 

 ment of almost every surgical case that may come 

 under his observation. Humboldt Med. Archives, 

 Feb. 1868. 



The title of the above work is sufficiently indica- 

 tive of its contents. We have not seen fo'r a Jong 

 time (in the English language) a treatise equal to this 

 in extent, nor one which is better adapted to the 

 wants of the general student and practitioner. It is 

 not to the surgeon alone that this book belongs ; the 

 physician has frequent opportunities to fill an emer- 

 gency by such knowledge as is here given. Every 

 practitioner should make purchase of such a book 

 it will last him his lifetime.^. Louis Med. He- 

 porter, Feb. 1868. 



A useful book is always a necessary one, and that 

 this book is eminently one of that character, needs 

 but a glance at its pages to show. It certainly de- 

 serves a place in the library of every physician. 

 Leavenworth Med. Herald, Feb. 1868. 



The book seems to be complete in every respect, 

 and is a welcome addition to our shelves. Boston 

 Med. and Surg. Journal, Jan. 9, 186S. 



In our opinion it is a good book, and one which 

 every student and practitioner needs in his library. 

 Especially would its value be appreciated by the sur- 

 geon whose field of practice is anywise remote from, 

 the larger cities. Chicago Med. Journal, Jan. 1 868. 



This volume will be a useful acquisition to a large 

 number of the working members of the medical pro- 

 fession in this country. Practitioners will find mate- 

 rial aid and encouragement in its pages which they 

 could nowhere else obtain, to the same extent, in so 

 convenient a form. Am. Journal Med. Sciences, 

 Jan. 1868. 



He must be a blockhead indeed who, after study- 

 ing this portion of the book before us, fails to adapt 

 himself to the emergency of any case, for we find 

 here described pretty much every contrivance ever 

 devised, and we can hardly conceive of that combi- 

 nation of circumstances which would deprive us of 

 all these means of assistance, and the absence of one 

 or more of the usual aids would only stimulate the 

 ingenuity to devise some other plan of relief. New 

 1'ork Med. Journal, May, 1868. 



\SHTON (T. J.) 

 ON THE DISEASES, INJURIES, AND MALFORMATIONS OF 



THE RECTUM AND ANUS ; with remarks on Habitual Constipation. Second American, 



from the fourth and enlarged London edition. With handsome illustrations. In one very 

 beautifully printed octavo volume of about 300 pages. $3 25. (Just Issued.) 

 We can recommend this volume of Mr. Ashton's in 

 the strongest terms, as containing all the latest details 

 of the pathology and treatment of diseases connected 

 with the rectum. Canada Med. Journ., March, 1866. 

 One of the most valuable special treatises that the 

 phvsician and surgeon can have in his library. 



Chicago Medical Examiner, Jan. 1866. 



The short period which has elapsed since the ap- 

 pearance of the former American reprint, and the 

 numerous editions published in England, are the best 

 arguments we can offer of the merits, and of the use- 

 lessness of any commendation on our part of a book 

 already so favorably known to our renders. Boston 

 Med. and Surg. Journal, Jan. 2o, 1SG6. 



