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New and much enlarged edition (Now Ready.) 



WILSON (ERASMUS), F. R. S., 

 A SYSTEM OF HUMAN ANATOMY, General and Special. A new and re- 



vised American, from the last and enlarged Engli.-h Edition. Edited by W. H. GOBRECHT, M. D., 



Professor of Anatomy in the Philadelphia Medical College, &c. Illustrated with three hundred 



and ninety-seven engravings on wood. In one large and exquisitely printed octavo volume, of 



over 600 large pages; leather. $325. 



The publishers trust that the well earned reputation so long enjoyed by this work will be more 

 than maintained by the present edition. Besides a very thorough revision by the author, it has been 

 most carefully examined by the editor, and the efforts of both have been directed to introducing 

 everything which increased experience in its use has suggested as desirable to render it a complete 

 text-book for those seeking to obtain or to renew an acquaintance with Human Anatomy. The 

 amount of additions which it has thus received may be estimated from the fact that the present 

 edition contains over one-fourth more matter than the last, rendering a smaller type and an enlarged 

 page requisite to keep the volume within a convenient size. The author has not only thus added 

 largely to the work, but he has also made alterations throughout, wherever there appeared the 

 opportunity of improving the arrangement or style, so as to present every fact in its most appro- 

 priate manner, and to render the whole as clear and intelligible as possible. The editor has 

 exercised the utmost caution to obtain entire accuracy in the text, and has largely increased the 

 number of illustrations, of which there are about one hundred and fifty more in this edition than 

 in the last, thus bringing distinctly before the eye of the student everything of interest or importance. 



The publishers have felt that neither care nor expense should be spared to render the external 

 finish of the volume worthy of the universal favor with which it has been received by the American 

 profession, and they have endeavored consequently to produce in its mechanical execution an im- 

 provement corresponding with that which the text has enjoyed. It will therefore be found one of 

 the handsomest specimens of typography as yet produced in "this country, and in all respects suited 

 to the office table of the practitioner, notwithstanding the exceedingly low price at which it has 

 been placed. 



A few notices of former editions are subjoined. 



This is probably the prettiest medical book ever 

 published, and we believe that its intrinsic merits 

 are in keeping with its exterior advantages, having 

 examined it sufficiently to satisfy us that it may be 

 recommended to the student as no less distinguished 

 by its accuracy and clearness of description than by 

 its typographical elegance. The wood-cuts are ex- 

 quisite. British and Foreign Medical Review. 



evident. Let students, by all means examine the 

 claims of this work on their notice, before they pur- 

 chase a text-book of the vitally important science 



which this volume so fully and easily unfolds. 



Lancet. 



In every respect, this work, as an anatomical 

 guide for the student who seeks to obtain know- 

 ledge which he has not yet acquired, and for the 



An elegant edition of one of the most useful and , pract itioner who wishes to keep up that which ht 

 ^curate systems of anatomical science which has fc nch graduaUy fading frora h , ^ merits ^ 

 :en issued from the press. The illustrations are warm I 8t and most decided praist. Med Gazette 

 ally beautiful. In its style the work is extremely 



accurat 

 been 

 really- 

 concise and intelligible. No one can possibly take 

 up this volume without being struck with the great 

 beauty of its mechanical execution, and the clear- 

 ness of the descriptions which it contains is equally 



We regard it as the best system now extant for 

 students. Western Lancet. 



It therefore receives our highest commendation. 



Southern Med. and Surg. Journal. 



BY THE SAME AUTHOR. (Just Issued.) 



ON DISEASES OF THE SKIN. Fourth and enlarged American, from the last 

 and improved London edition. In one large octavo volume, of 650 pages, extra cloth, $2 75. 



The writings of Wilson, upon diseases of the skin, 

 are by far the most scientific and practical that 

 have ever been presented to the medical world on 

 this subject. The present edition is a great improve- 

 ment on all its predecessors. To dwell upon all the 

 great merits and high claims of the work before us, 

 seriatim, would indeed be an agreeable service ; it 

 would be a mental homage which we could freely 

 offer, but we should thus occupy an undue amount 

 ot space in this Journal. We will, however, look 

 at some of the more salient points with which it 

 abounds, and which make it incompurauiy superior in 

 excellence to all other treatises on the subject of der- 

 matology. No mere speculative views are allowed 



a place in this volume, which, without a doubt, will 

 for a very long period, be acknowledged as the chief 

 standard work on dermatology. The principles of 

 an enlightened and rational therapeia are introduced 

 on every appropriate occasion. The general prac- 

 titioner and surgeon who, peradventure, may have 

 for years regarded cutaneous maladies as scarcely 

 worthy their attention, because, forsooth, they are 

 not fatal in their tendency; or who, if they have 

 attempted their cure, have followed the blind guid- 

 ance of empiricism, will almost assuredly be roused 

 to a new and becoming interest in this department 

 of practice, through the inspiring agency of this 

 book. Am. Jour. Med. Science, Oct. 1857. 



ALSO, NOW READY, 



A SERIES OF PLATES ILLUSTRATING WILSON ON DISEASES OF 



THE SKIN ; consisting of nineteen beautifully executed plates, of which twelve are exquisitely 

 colored, presenting the Normal Anatomy and Pathology of the Skin, and containing accurate re- 

 presentations of about one hundred varieties of disease, most of them the size of nature. 



in cloth $4 25. 



Price 



In beauty of drawing and accuracy and finish of coloring these plates will be found equal to 

 anything of the kind as yet issued in this country. 



We have already expressed our high appreciation 

 of Mr. Wilson's treatise on Diseases of the Skin. 

 The platea are comprised in a separate volume, 



One of the best specimens of colored lithographic 

 illustrations that have ever been published in this 

 country. The representations of diseases of the 

 skin, even to the most minute shade of coloring, are 

 remarkably accurate, giving the student or practi- 

 tioner a very correct idea of the disease he is study- 

 ing. We know of no work so well adapted to the 

 wants of the general practitioner as Wilson's, with 

 the accompanying plates. Med. and Surg. Re- 

 porter, May, ]858. 



which we counsel all those who possess the text to 

 purchase. It is a beautiful specimen of color print- 

 ing, and the repiesentations of the various forms of 

 skin disease are as faithful as is possible in plutes 

 of the size. Boston Med. and Surg. Journal, April 

 8, 1858. 



