NOTHNAGEL'S ENCYCLOPEDIA 



OF 



PRACTICAL MEDICINE 



Edited by ALFRED STENGEL, M. D. 



Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania; Visiting 

 Physician to the Pennsylvania Hospital 



IT is universally acknowledged that the Germans lead the world in Internal 

 .Medicine ; and of all the German works on this subject, Nothnagel's " Ency- 

 clopedia of Special Pathology and Therapeutics" is conceded by scholars to 

 be without question the best System of Medicine in existence. So necessary 

 is this book in the study of Internal Medicine that it comes largely to this country 

 in the original German. In view of these facts, Messrs. W. B. Saunders & Com- 

 pany have arranged with the publishers to issue at once an authorized edition 

 of this great encyclopedia of medicine in English. 



For the present a set of some ten or twelve volumes, representing the most 

 practical part of this encyclopedia, and selected with especial thought of the needs 

 of the practical physician, will be published. The volumes will contain the real 

 essence of the entire work, and the purchaser will therefore obtain at less than 

 half the cost the cream of the original. Later the special and more strictly 

 scientific volumes will be offered from time to time. 



The work will be translated by men possessing thorough knowledge of both 

 English and German, and each volume will be edited by a prominent specialist 

 on the subject to which it is devoted. It will thus be brought thoroughly up to 

 date, and the American edition will be more than a mere translation of the Ger- 

 man ; for, in addition to the matter contained in the original, it will represent the 

 very latest views of the leading American specialists in the various departments 

 of Internal Medicine. The whole System will be under the editorial super- 

 vision of Dr. Alfred Stengel, who will select the subjects for the American edition, 

 and will choose the editors of the different volumes. 



Unlike most encyclopedias, the publication of this work will not be extended 

 over a number of years, but five or six volumes will be issued during the coming 

 year, and the remainder of the series at the same rate. Moreover, each volume 

 will be revised to the date of its publicatfon by the American editor. This will 

 obviate the objection that has heretofore existed to systems published in a number 

 of volumes, since the subscriber will receive the completed work while the earlier 

 volumes are still fresh. 



The usual method of publishers, when issuing a work of this kind, has been 

 to compel physicians to take the entire System. This seems to us in many cases 

 to be undesirable. Therefore, in purchasing this encyclopedia, physicians will be 

 given the opportunity of subscribing for the entire System at one time ; but any 

 single volume or any number of volumes may be obtained by those who do not 

 desire the complete series. This latter method, while not so profitable to the pub- 

 lisher, offers to the purchaser many advantages which will be appreciated by those 

 who do not care to subscribe for the entire work at one time. 



This American edition of Nothnagel's Encyclopedia will, without question, 

 form the greatest System of Medicine ever produced, and the publishers feel con- 

 fident that it will meet with general favor in the medical profession. 



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