16 BLANCHARD & LEA'S MEDICAL, 



'GROSS (SAMUEL D.), M. D., 



Professor of Surgery in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, &c. 

 Now Heady, August, 1859. 



A SYSTEM OF SURGERY : Pathological, Diagnostic, Therapeutic, and Opera- 

 tive. Illustrated by NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SIX ENGRAVINGS. In two large and beautifully 

 printed octavo volumes, of nearly twenty-four hundred pages; strongly bound in leather, With 

 raised bands. Price $12. 



FROM THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE. 



" The object of this work is to furnish a systematic and comprehensive treatise on the science and 

 practice of surgery, considered in the broadest sense; one that shall serve the practitioner as a 

 faithful and available guide in his daily routine of duty. It has been too much the custom of mod- 

 ern writers on this department of the healing art to omit certain topics altogether, and to speak of 

 others at undue length, evidently assuming that their readers could readily supply the deficiencies 

 from other sources, or that what has been thus slighted is of no particular practical value. My aim 

 has been to embrace the whole domain of surgery, and to allot to every subject its legitimate claim 

 to notice in the great family of external diseases and accident*. How far this object has been accom- 

 plished, it is not for me to determine. It may safely be affirmed, however, that there is no topic, 

 properly appertaining to surgery, that will not be found to be discussed, lo a greater or less extent. 

 in these volumes. If a larger space than is customary has been devoted to the consideration of 

 inflammation and its results, or the great principles of surgery, it is because of the conviction, 

 grounded upon long and close observation, that there are no subjects so little understood by the 

 general practitioner. Special attention has also been bestowed upon the discrimination of diseases ; 

 and an elaborate chapter has been introduced on general diagnosis." 



That these intentions have been carried out in the fullest and most elaborate manner is sufficiently 

 shown by the great extent of the work, and the length of time during which the author has beta 

 concentrating on the task his studies and his experience, guided by the knowledge which twenty 

 years of lecturing on surgical topics have given him of the wants of students. 



In view of the magnitude and importance of the work, the publishers have spared neither labor 

 nor expense to carry out fully the designs of the author, and to render its external appearance in 

 every respect unexceptionable. The series of illustrations is fuller and more complete than ha* 

 hitherto been attempted in any work of the kind, and while wood-cuts have been un:-paringly se- 

 lected from every authoritative and accessible source, a very large number of original drawings 

 have been prepared, where the material already existing was unsatisfactory or insufficient. Printed 

 in the handsomest manner, with new and clear type, on fine paper, these volumes are therefore 

 offered to the profession with the hope that they "will fully meet the views of the most exacting and 

 fastidious; and that no practitioner, however well supplied his library may be, will consider it com- 

 plete without them ; while the student may feel, in procuring them, that he does riot merely possess 

 a guide for his preliminary studies, but a copious book of reference, to be preserved for consultation 

 during his whole professional career. 



BY THE SAME AUTHOR. 



ELEMENTS OF PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY. Third edition, thoroughly 



revised and greatly improved. In one large and very handsome octavo volume, with about three 

 hundred and fifty 'beautiful illustrations, of which a large number are from original drawings. 

 Price in extra cloth, $4 75; leather, raised bands, $5 25. (Lately Published.) 

 The very rapid advances in the Science of Pathological Anatomy during the last few years have 

 rendered essential a thorough modification of this work, with a view of making it a correct expo- 

 nent of the present state of the subject. The very careful manner in which this task has been 

 executed, and the amount of alteration which it has undergone, have enabled the author to say that 

 " with the many changes and improvements now introduced, the work may be regarded almost as 

 a new treatise," while the efforts of the author have been seconded as regards the mechanical 

 execution of the volume, rendering it one of the handsomest productions of the American press. 



We most sincerely congratulate the author on the 

 successful manner in .which he has accomplished his 

 proposed object. His book is most admirably cal- 

 culated to fill up a blank which has long been felt to 

 exist in this department of medical literature, and 

 as such must become very widely circulated amongst 

 all classes of the profession. Dublin Quarterly 

 Journ. of Med. Science, Nov. 1857. 



We have been favorably impressed with the gene- 

 ral manner in which Dr. Gross has executed his task 

 of affording a comprehensive digest of the present 

 state of the literature of Pathological Anatomy, and 

 have much pleasure in recommending his work to 

 our readers, as we believe one well deserving 1 of 

 diligent perusal and careful study. Montreal Mtd. 

 Chron., Sept. 1857. 



BY THE SAME AUTHOR. 



A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE DISEASES, INJURIES, AND 



MALFORMATIONS OF THE URINARY BLADDER, THE PROSTATE GLAND, AND 

 THE URETHRA. Second Edition, revised and much enlarged, with one hundred and eighty- 

 four illustrations. In one large and very handsome octavo volume, of over nine hundred pages. 

 In leather, raised bands, $5 25 ; extra cloth, $4 75. 



Philosophical in its design, methodical in its ar- 

 rangement, ample and sound in its practical details, 

 it may in truth be said to leave scarcely anything to 

 be desired on so important a subject. Boston Med. 

 and Surg. Journal. 



Whoever will peruse the vast amount of valuable 

 practical information it contains, will, we think, 



BY THE SAME AUTHOR. 



A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON FOREIGN BODIES IN THE AIR-PAS- 

 SAGES. In one handsome octavo volume, extra cloth, with illustrations, pp. 468. $2 75. 



agree with us, that there is no work in the English 

 language which can make any just pretensions to 

 be its equal. N. Y. Journal of Medicine. 



A volume replete with truths and principles of the 

 almost value in the investigation of these diseases. 

 American Medical Journal . 



