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



LECTURES UPON DISEASES OF THE RECTUM 



AND THE SURGERY OF THE LOWER BOWEL. Delivered at 

 the Bellevue Hospital Medical College by W. H. VAN BUREN, M. D., late 

 Professor of the Principles and Practice of Surgery in the Bellevue Hospi- 

 tal Medical College, etc., etc. 



Second edition, revised and enlarged. I volume, 8vo, 412 pp., with 27 Illustrations and complete 



Index. Cloth, $3 ; sheep, $4. 



SPECIMEN OF ILLUSTRATION. " The reviewer too often finds it a difficult 



task to discover points to praise, in order that 

 his criticisms may not seem one-sided and un- 

 just. These lectures, however, place him upon 

 the other horn of the dilemma, viz., to find 

 somewhat to criticise severely enough to clear 

 himself of the charge of indiscriminating lau- 

 dation. Of course, the author upholds some 

 views which conflict with other authorities, but 

 he substantiates them by the most powerful of 

 arguments, viz., a large experience, the results 

 of which are enunciated by one who elsewhere 

 shows that he can appreciate, and accord the 

 due value to, the work and experience of 

 others." Archives of Medicine. 



" The present is a new volume rather than 

 a new edition. Both its size and material 

 are vastly beyond its predecessor. The same 

 scholarly method, the same calm, convincing 

 statement, the same wise, carefully matured 

 counsel, pervade every paragraph. The dis- 

 , comfort and dangers of the diseases of the 

 "' rectum call for greater consideration than 

 they usually receive at the hands of the pro- 

 ~E fession." Detroit Lancet. 



1 ' These lectures are twelve in number, and 

 may be taken as an excellent epitome of our 

 present knowledge of the diseases of the parts 

 in question. The work is full of practical 

 matter, but it owes not a little of its value to 

 the original thought, labor, and suggestions 

 as to the treatment of disease, which always 

 characterize the productions of the pen of Dr. 

 Van Buren." Philadelphia Medical Times. 



"The most attractive feature of the work 

 is the plain, common-sense manner in which 

 each subject is treated. The author has laid down instructions for the treatment, medicinal and opera- 

 tive, of rectal diseases in so clear and lucid style as that any practitioner is enabled to follow it. The 

 large and successful experience of the distinguished author in this class of diseases is sufficient of itself to 

 warrant the high character of the book." Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery. 



"... We have thus briefly tried to give the known to the profession as one of our most accom- 

 reader an idea of the scope of this work : and the plished surgeons and ablest scientific men. Much 

 work is a good one as good as either Allingham's is expected of him in a book like the one before us, 

 or Curling's, with which it will inevitably be com- and those who read it will not be disappointed. It 

 pared. Indeed, we should have been greatly sur- will, indeed, be widely read, and, in a short time, 

 prised if any work from the pen of Dr. Van Buren take its place as the standard American authority." 

 had not been a good one ; and we have to thank St. Louis Courier of Medicine. 

 him that for the first time we have an American Taken as a whole, the book is one of the most 



text-book on this subject which equals .those that complete and reliable ones extant. It is certainly 

 have so long been the standards." New York Med- the best of any s i m ilar work from an American au- 

 ical Journal. thor It is handsomely bound and illustrated, and 



" Mere praise of a book like this would be super- should be in the hands of every practitioner and 

 fluous almost impertinent. The author is well student of medicine." Louisville Medical Herald. 



REPORTS. Bellevue and Charity Hospital Reports for i8;o ; 

 containing valuable contributions from ISAAC E. TAYLOR, M. D., AUSTIN 

 FLINT, M. D., LEWIS A. SAYRE, M. D., WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, M. D., T. 

 GAILLARD THOMAS, M. D., FRANK H. HAMILTON, M. D., and others. 



I vol., 8vo, 415 pp. Cloth, $4. 



" These institutions are the most important, as connected with them are acknowledged to be among 

 regards accommodations for patients and variety of the first in their profession, and the volume is an 

 ases treated, of any on this continent, and are sur- important addition to the professional literature of 

 passed by but few in the world. The gentlemen this country." Psychological Journal. 



