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D. APPLE TON <S- CO. 'S MEDICAL WORKS. 



SPECIMEN OF ILLUSTRATION. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO REPARATIVE SURGERY, show- 



ing its Application to the Treatment of Deformities, produced by Destruc- 

 tive Disease or Injury ; Congenital Defects from Arrest or Excess of Devel- 

 opment ; and Cicatricial Contractions following Burns. Illustrated by Thirty 

 Cases and fine Engravings. By GURDON BUCK, M. D. 

 i vol., 8vo, 237 pp. Cloth, $3. 



" There is no department of surgery where the ingenuity 

 and skill of the surgeon are more severely taxed than when 

 required to repair the damage sustained by the loss of parts, 

 or to remove the disfigurement produced by destructive dis- 

 ease or violence, or to remedy the deformities of congenital 

 malformation. The results obtained in such cases within 

 the last half-century are among the most satisfactory achieve- 

 ments of modern surgery. The term ' Reparative Surgery ' 

 chosen as the title of this volume, though it may, in a com- 

 prehensive sense, be applied to the treatment of a great 

 variety of lesions to which the body is liable, is, however, 

 restricted in this work exclusively to what has fallen under 

 the author's own observation, and has been subjected to the 

 test of experience in his own practice. It largely embraces 

 the treatment of lesions of the face, a region in which plastic 

 surgery finds its most frequent and important applications. 

 Another and no less important class of lesions will also be 

 found to have occupied a large share of the author's atten- 

 tion, viz., cicatricial contractions following burns. While 

 these cases have a very strong claim upon our commisera- 

 tion, and should stimulate us, as surgeons, to the greatest 

 efforts for their relief, they have too often in the past been 

 dismissed as hopelessly incurable. The satisfactory results 

 obtained in the cases reported in this volume will encour- 

 age other surgeons, we trust, to resort with greater hope- 

 fulness in the future to operative interference. Accuracy 

 of description and clearness of statement have been aimed 

 at in the following pages ; and if, in his endeavor to attain 

 this important end, the author has incurred the reproach of 

 tediousness, the difficulty of the task must be his apology." 

 Extract from Preface. 



THE CHEMISTRY OF COMMON LIFE. Illustrated 

 with numerous Wood Engravings. By the late JAMES F. W. JOHNSON, 

 F. R. S., Professor of Chemistry in the University of Durham. A new 

 edition, revised and brought down to the Present Time. By Arthur Her- 

 bert Church, M. A., Oxon. 

 Illustrated with Maps and numerous Engravings on Wood. In one vol., I2mo, 592 pp. $2. 



SUMMARY OF CONTENTS. The Air we Breathe; the Water we Drink; the Soil we 

 Cultivate ; the Plant we Rear ; the Bread we Eat ; the Beef we Cook ; the Beverages we Infuse ; 

 the Sweets we Extract ; the Liquors we Ferment ; the Narcotics we Indulge in ; the Poisons we 

 Select; the Odors we Enjoy; the Smells we Dislike; the Colors we Admire; What we Breathe 

 and Breathe for ; What, How, and Why we Digest ; the Body we Cherish ; the Circulation of 

 Matter. 



THE TONIC TREATMENT OF SYPHILIS. By E. L. 



KEYES, A. M., M. D., Adjunct Professor of Surgery and Professor of Der- 

 matology in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, etc. 

 i vol., 8vo, 83 pp. Cloth, $i. 



" My studies in syphilitic blood have yielded results at once so gratifying to me, and so con- 

 vincing as to the tonic influence of minute doses of mercury, that I feel impelled to lay this brief 

 treatise before the medical public in support of a continuous treatment of syphilis by small (tonic) 

 doses of mercury. I believe that a general trial of the method will, in the long run, vindicate its 

 excellence." Extract from Preface. 



