D. APPLETON 6- CO.'S MEDICAL WORKS. 



A TEXT-BOOK OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE. With 



Particular Reference to Physiology and Pathological Anatomy. By the 

 late Dr. FELIX VON NIEMEYER, Professor of Pathology and Therapeutics ; 

 Director of the Medical Clinic of the University of Tubingen. Translated 

 from the eighth German edition, by special permission of the author, by 

 GEORGE H. HUMPHREYS, M. D., one of the Physicians to Trinity Infirmary, 

 Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, etc., and CHARLES E. 

 HACKLEY, M. D., one of the Physicians to the New York Hospital and 

 Trinity Infirmary, etc. 



Revised edition of 1880. 2 vols., 8vo, 1,628 pages. Cloth, $9; sheep, $11. 



The author undertakes, first, to give a picture of disease which shall be as life-like and faithful 

 to nature as possible, instead of being a mere theoretical scheme ; secondly, so to utilize the more 

 recent advances of pathological anatomy, physiology, and physiological chemistry, as to furnish a 

 clearer insight into the various processes of disease. 



The work has met with the most nattering reception and deserved success ; has been adopted 

 as a text-book in many of the medical colleges both in this country and in Europe ; and has re- 

 ceived the very highest encomiums from the medical and secular press. 



"This new American edition of Niemeyer fully 

 sustains the reputation of previous ones, and may 

 be considered, as to style and matter, superior to 

 any translation that could have been made from the 

 latest German edition. It will be recollected that 

 since the death of Professor Niemeyer, in 1871, his 

 work has been edited by Dr. Eugene Seitz. Although 

 the latter gentleman has made many additions and 

 changes, he has destroyed somewhat the individual- 

 ity of the original. The American editors have 

 wisely resolved to preserve the style of the author, 

 and adhere, as closely as possible, to his individual 

 views and his particular style. Extra articles have 

 been inserted on chronic alcoholism, morphia-poi- 

 soning, paralysis agitans, scleroderma, elephantiasis, 

 progressive pernicious anaemia, and a chapter on 

 yellow fever. The work is well printed as usual." 

 Medical Record. 



"The first inquiry in this country regarding a 

 German book generally is, ' Is it a work of practi- 

 cal value ? ' Without stopping to consider the just- 

 ness of the American idea of the ' practical," we can 



unhesitatingly answer, ' It is ! ' " New York Medi- 

 cal Journal. 



" It is comprehensive and concise, and is char- 

 acterized by clearness and originality." Dublin 

 Quarterly Journal of Medicine. 



1 ' Its author is learned in medical literature ; he 

 has arranged his materials with care and judgment, 

 and has thought over them." The Lancet. 



"While, of course, -we can not undertake a re- 

 view of this immense work of about 1,600 pages in 

 a journal of the size of ours, we may say that we 

 have examined the volumes very carefully, as to 

 whether to recommend them to practitioners or not ; 

 and we are glad to say, after a careful review, ' Buy 

 the book.' The chapters are succinctly written. 

 Terse terms and, in the main, brief sentences are 

 used. Personal experience is recorded, with a proj>- 

 er statement of facts and observations by other au- 

 thors who are to be trusted. A very excellent index 

 is added to the second volume, which helps very 

 much for ready reference." Virginia Medical 

 Monthly. 



ESSAYS ON THE FLOATING MATTER OF THE 



AIR, in Relation to Putrefaction and Infection. By Professor JOHN TYN- 

 DALL, F. R. S. 



I2mo. Cloth, $1.50. 



CONTENTS. I. On Dust and Disease; II. Optical Deportment of the Atmosphere in Re- 

 lation to Putrefaction and Infection; III. Further Researches on the Deportment and Vitality of 

 Putrefactive Organisms ; IV. Fermentation, and its Bearings on Surgery and Medicine ; V. Spon- 

 taneous Generation ; Appendix. 



" Professor Tyndall's book is a calm, patient, 

 clear, and thorough treatment of all the questions 

 and conditions of nature and society involved in 

 this theme. The work is lucid and convincing, yet 

 not prolix or pedantic, but popular and really en- 

 joyable. It is worthy of patient and renewed 

 study." Philadelphia Times. 



" The matter contained in this work is not only 

 presented in a very interesting way, but is of great 

 value." Boston Journal of Commerce. 



" The germ theory of disease is most intelli- 

 gently presented, and indeed the whole work is 

 instinct with a high intellect." Boston Common- 

 wealth, 



" In the book before us we have the minute de- 

 tails of hundreds of observations on infusions ex- 

 posed to optically pure air ; infusions of mutton, 

 beef, haddock, hay, turnip, liver, hare, rabbit, 

 grouse, pheasant, salmon, cod, etc. ; infusions 

 heated by boiling water and by boiling oil, some- 

 times for a few moments and sometimes for several 

 hours, and, however varied the mode of procedure, 

 the result was invariably the same, with not even a 

 shade of uncertainty. The fallacy of spontaneous 

 generation and the probability of the germ theory 

 of disease seem to us the inference, and the only 

 inference, that can be drawn from the results of 

 nearly ten thousand experiments performed by Pro- 

 fessor Tyndall within the last two years." Pitts- 

 burg Telegraph. 



