30 BLANCHARD & LEA'S MEDICAL 



New and much enlarged edition (Now Ready.) 

 WATSON (THOMAS), M.D., &c. 



Late Physician to the Middlesex Hospital, &c. 



LECTURES ON THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF PHYSIC. 



Delivered at King's College, London. A new American, from the last revised and enlarged 

 English edition, with Additions, by D. FRANCIS CONDIE, M. D., author of "A Practical Treatise 

 on the Diseases of Children," &c. With one hundred and eighty. five illustrations on wood, lu 

 one very large and handsome volume, imperial octavo, of over ]200 closely printed pages in 

 small type ; the whole strongly bound in leather, with raised bands. Price $4 25. 

 The publishers feel that they are rendering a service to the American profession in presenting at 

 so very moderate a price this vast body of sound practical information. Whether as a guide for 

 the student entering on a course of instruction, or as a book of reference for daily consultation by 

 the practitioner, " Watson's Practice" has long been regarded as second to none; the soundness 

 and fulness of its teachings, the breadth and liberality of its views, and the easy and flowing style 

 in which it is written having won for it the position of a general favorite. That this high reputa- 

 tion might be fully maintained, the author has subjected it to a thorough revision ; every portion 

 has been examined with the aid of the most recent researches in pathology, and the results of 

 modern investigations in both theoretical and practical subjects have been carefully weighed and 

 embodied throughout its pages. The watchful scrutiny of the editor has likewise introduced 

 whatever possesses immediate importance to the American physician in relation to diseases inci- 

 dent to our climate which are little known in England, as well as those points in which experience 

 here has led to different modes of practice ; and he has also added largely to the series of illustra- 

 tions, believing that in this manner valuable assistance may be conveyed to the student in elucidat- 

 ing the text. The work will, therefore, be found thoroughly on a level with the most advanced 

 stale of medical science on both sides of the Atlantic. 



The additions which the work has received are shown by the fact that notwithstanding an en- 

 largement in the size of the page, more than two hundred additional pages have been necessary 

 to accommodate the two large volumes of the London edition (which sells at ten dollars), within 

 the compass of a single volume, and in its present form it contains the matter of at least three 

 ordinary octavos. Believing it to be a work which should lie on the table of every physician, and 

 be in the hands of every student, the publishers have put it at a price within the reach of all, making 

 it one of the cheapest books as yet presented to the American profession, while at the same time 

 the beauty of its mechanical execution renders it an exceedingly attractive volume. 



It would appear almost superfluous to adduce commendatory notices of a work which has so 

 long been established in the position of a standard authority as "Watson's Practice." A few ex- 

 tracts are, however, subjoined from reviews of the new and improved edition. 



The fourth edition now appears, so carefully re- | The lecturer's skill, his wisdom, his learning, are 

 vised, as to add considerably to the value of a book [ equalled by the ease of his graceful diction, his elo- 

 already acknowledged, wherever the English Ian- ! quence, aud the far higher qualities of candor, of 

 guage is read, to be beyond all comparison the best | courtesy, of modesty, and of generous appreciation 

 systematic work on the Principles and Practice of j of merit in others. May he long remain to instruct 

 Physic in the whole range of medical literature, j us, and to enjoy, in the glorious sunset of his de- 

 Every lecture contains proof of the extreme anxiety | dining years, the honors, the confidence and love 

 of the author to keep pace with ihe advancing know- : gained during his useful life. N. A. Med.-Chvr. 

 ledge of the day, and to bring the results of the | Review, July, 1858. 

 labors, not only of physicians, but of chemists and 



histologists, before his readers, wherever they can 

 be turned to useful account. And this is done with 

 such a cordial appreciation of the merit due to the 

 industrious observer, such a generous desire to en- 

 courage younger and rising men, and such a candid 

 acknowledgment of his own obligations to them, 

 that one scarcely knows whether to admire most the 

 pure, simple, forcible English the vast amount of 

 useful practical information condensed into the 

 Lectures or the manly, kind-hearted, unassuming 

 character of the lecturer shining through his work. 

 London Med. Times and Gazette, Oct. 31, 1857. 



Thus these admirable volumes come before the 

 profession in their fourth edition, abounding in those 

 distinguished attributes of moderation, judgment, 

 erudite cultivation, clearness, and eloquence, with 

 which they were from the first invested, but yet 

 richer than before in the results of more prolonged 

 observation, and in the able appreciation of the 

 latest advances in pathology and medicine by one 

 of the most profound medical thinkers of the day. 

 London Lancet, Nov. 14, 1837. 



Watson's unrivalled, perhaps unapproachable 

 work on Practice the copious additions made to 

 which (the fourth edition) have given it all the no- 

 velty and much of the interest of a new book. 

 Charleston Med. Journal, July, 1858. 



Lecturers, practitioners, and students of medicine 

 will equally hail the reappearance of the work of 

 Dr. Watson in the form of a new a fourth edition. 

 We merely do justice to our own feelings, and, we 

 are sure, of the whole profession, if we thank him 

 for having, in the trouble and turmoil of a large 

 practice, made leisure to supply the hiatus caused 



iply the 

 )lisher's 



by the exhaustion of the publisher's stock of the 

 third edition, which has been severely felt for the 

 last three years. For Dr. Watson has not merely 

 caused the lectures to be reprinted, but scattered 

 through the whole work we find additions or altera- 

 tions which prove that the author has in every way 

 sought to bring up his teaching to the level of che 

 most recent acquisitions in science. Brit, and For. 

 Medico-Ckir. Review, Jan. 1858. 



WILDE (W. FU, 

 Surgeon to St. Mark's Ophthalmic and Aural Hospital, Dublin. 



AURAL SURGERY, AND THE NATURE AND TREATMENT OF DIS- 

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from the second and revised Londou edition. In one very handsome volume, royal 12mo., extra 



cloth. $1 00. 



To the observer who prefers accuracy to blunders I One of the finest aids to a young practitioner wt 

 and precision to carelessness, this little book is :n- have ever seen. Peninsular Journal of Medicine. 

 valuable. N. H. Journal o/Medicint. 



