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CHURCHILL (FLEET WOOD), M. D., M. R. I. A. 

 ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MIDWIFERY. Edited, with 



Notes and Additions, by D. FRANCIS CONDIE, M. D., author of a "Practical Treatise on the 

 Diseases of Children," &c. With 139 illustrations. In one very handsome octavo volume, 

 leather, pp.510. $3 00. 



To bestow praise on a book that has received such 

 marked approbation would be superfluous. We need 

 only say, therefore, that if the first edition was 

 thought worthy of a favorable reception by the 

 medical public, we can confidently affirm that this 

 will be found much more so. The lecturer, the 

 practitioner, and the student, may all have recourse 

 to its pages, and derive from their perusal much in- 

 terest and instruction in everything relating to theo- 

 retical and practical midwifery. Dublin Quarterly 

 Journal of Medical Science. 



A work of very great merit, and such as we can 

 confidently recommend to the study of every obste- 

 tric practitioner. London Medical Gazette. 



This is certainly the most perfect system extant. 

 It is the best adapted for the purposes of a text- 

 book, and that which he whose necessities confine 

 him to one book, should select in preference to all 

 others. Southern Medical and Surgical Journal. 



The most popular work on midwifery ever issued 

 from the American press. Charleston Med. Journal. 



Were we reduced to the necessity of having but 

 one work on midwifery, and permitted to choose, 

 we would unhesitatingly take Churchill. Western 

 Med. and Surg. Journal. 



It is impossible to conceive a more useful and 

 elegant manual than Dr. Churchill's Practice of 

 Midwifery. Provincial Medical Journal. 



Certainly, in our opinion, the very best work on 



No work holds a higher position, or is more de- 

 serving of being placed in the hands of the tyro, 

 the advanced student, or the practitioner. Medical 

 Examiner. 



Previous editions, under the editorial supervision 

 of Prof R. M. Huston, have been received with 

 marked favor, and they deserved it ; but this, re- 

 printed from a very late Dublin edition, carefully 

 revised and brought up by the author to the present 

 time, does present an unusually accurate and able 

 exposition of every important particular embraced 

 in the department of midwifery. * * The clearness, 

 directness, and precision of its teachings, together 

 with the great amount of statistical research which 

 its text exhibits, have served to place it already in 

 the foremost rank of works in this department of re- 

 medial science. N. 0. Med. and Surg. Journal. 



In our opinion, it forms one of the best if not the 

 very best text-book and epitome of obstetric science 

 which we at present possess in the English lan- 

 guage. Monthly Journal of Medical Science. 



The clearness and precision of style in which it is 

 written, and the great amount of statistical research 

 which it contains, have served to place it in the first 

 rank of works in this departmentof medical science. 

 N. Y. Journal of Medicine. 



Few treatises will be found better adapted as a 

 text-book for the student, or as a manual for the 

 frequent consultation of the young practitioner. 

 American Medical Journal. 



the subject which exists. N. Y. Annalist. 



BY THE SAME AUTHOR. (Lately Published.) 



ON THE DISEASES OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN. Second American 



Edition, revised and enlarged by the author. Edited, with Notes, by W. V. KEATING, M. D. In 

 one large and handsome volume, extra cloth, of over 700 pages. $3 00, or in leather, $3 25. 

 In preparing this work a second time for the American profession, the author has spared no 

 labor in giving it a very thorough revision, introducing several new chapters, and rewriting others, 

 while every portion of the volume has been subjected to a severe scrutiny. The efforts of the 

 American editor have been directed to supplying such information relative to matters peculiar 

 to this country as might have escaped the attention of the author, and the whole may, there- 

 fore, be safely pronounced one of the most complete works on the subject accessible to the Ame- 

 rican Profession. By an alteration in the size of the page, these very extensive additions have 

 been accommodated without unduly increasing the size of the work. 



contribution for the illustration of its topics. The 

 material thus derived has been used with consummate 



This work contains a vast amount of interesting 

 matter, which is so well arranged and so curtly 

 worded that the book may be regarded as an ency- 

 clopaedia of information upon the subject of which 

 it treats. It is certainly also a monument of Dr. 

 Churchill's untiring industry, inasmuch as there is 

 not a single work upon the diseases of children with 

 which we are acquainted that is not fully referred 

 to and quoted from in its pages, and scarcely a con- 

 tribution of the least importance to any British or 

 Foreign Medical Journal, for some years past, which 

 is not duly noticed. London Lancet, Feb. 20, 1858. 



Availing himself of every fresh source of informa- 

 tion, Dr. Churchill endeavored, with his accustomed 

 industry and perseverance, to bring his work up to 

 the present state of medical knowledge in all the 

 subjects of which it treats; and in this endeavor he 

 has, we feel bound to say, been eminently success- 

 ful. Besides the addition of more than one hundred 

 and thirty pages of matter, we observe that some 

 entirely new and important chapters are introduced 



viz : on paralysis, 

 &c. As the work now 



syphilis, phthisis 

 low stands, it is, 



, sclerema, &c. 

 we believe, the 



most comprehensive in the English language upon 

 the diseases incident to early life. Dublin Quarterly 

 Journal, Feb. 1858. 



It brings before the reader an amount of informa- 

 tion not comprised in any similar production in the 

 language. The amount of labor consumed upon its 

 >roduction can only be conceived by those who have 

 similarly occupied, every work of note pub- 



skill, and the result has been a work creditable alike 

 to the author and his country. N. A. Medico-Chir. 

 Review, May, 1858. 



After this meagre, and we know, very imperfect 

 notice of Dr. Churchill's work, we shall conclude 

 by saying, that it is one that cannot fail from its co- 

 piousness, extensive research, and general accuracy, 

 to exalt still higher the reputation of the author in 

 this country. The American reader will be particu- 

 larly pleased to find that Dr. Churchill has done full 

 justice throughout his work to the various A merican 

 authors on this subject. The names of Dewees, 

 Eberle, Condie, and Stewart, occur on nearly every 

 page, and these authors are constantly referred toby 

 the author in terms of the highest praise, and with 

 the most liberal courtesy. The Medical Examiner. 



We recommend the work of Dr. Churchill most 

 cordially, both to students and practitioners, as a 

 valuable and^reliable guide in the treatment of the dis- 

 eases of children. Am. Journ. of the Med. Sciences. 



We know of no work on this department of Prac- 

 tical Medicine which presents so candid and unpre- 

 judiced a statement or posting up of our actual 

 knowledge as this. N. Y. Journal of Medicine. 



Its claims to merit both as a scientific and practi- 

 cal work, are of the highest order. Whilst we 

 would not elevate it above every other treatise on 

 the same subject, we certainly believe that very few 



prodi 



been 



lished wittiin the last twenty-five years in the dif- j are equal to it, and none superior. Southern Med. 



ferent languages of Europe having been laid under ! and Surgical Journal. 



BY THE SAME AUTHOR. 



ESSAYS ON THE PUERPERAL FEVER, AND OTHER DISEASES PE- 

 CULIAR TO WOMEN. Selected from the writings of British Authors previous to the close of 

 the Eighteenth Century. In one neat octavo volume, extra cloth, of about 450 pages. $2 50. 



