D. APPLETON &* CO.'S MEDICAL WORKS. 



A HAND-BOOK OF THE DISEASES OF THE EYE, 



AND THEIR TREATMENT. By HENRY R. SWANZY, A. M., M. B., 

 F. R. C. S. I., Surgeon to the National Eye and Ear Infirmary ; Ophthalmic 

 Surgeon to the Adelaide Hospital, Dublin. 



Crown 8vo, 437 pages. With 122 Illustrations, and Holmgren's Tests for Color-Blindness. 



Cloth, $3.00. 



" Though, amid the numerous recent text-books 

 on eye-diseases, there would appear to be little 

 room or necessity for another, we must admit that 

 this one justifies its presence, by its admirable type, 

 illustrations, and dress, by its clear wording, and, 

 above all, by the vast amount of varied matter 

 which it embraces within the relatively small com- 

 pass of some four hundred pages. The author has 

 omitted and, in our opinion, with perfect wis- 

 dom the usual collection of indifferent, second- 

 hand ophthalmoscopic plates. So, also, he has not 

 included test-types, though he has appended, for 

 explanatory purposes, the fan which is often ussd 

 in astigmatism. Admirable samples of the colored 

 wools, used in Holmgren's tests, are sewn into the 

 cover, and, by aid of these, it will be perfectly within 



the power of any one, wherever residing, to make a 

 proper collection of colored wools and tests for the 

 qualitative estimation of congenital color -defects. 

 We have criticised the book at length, and drawn at- 

 tention freely to points on which the author's opin- 

 ion is at variance with the commonly received teach- 

 ing. This we have done because there is much 

 individuality in the work, which bears every mark 

 of having been well thought out and independently 

 written. In these respects it presents a marked su- 

 periority over the ordinary run of medical hand- 

 books ; and we have no hesitation in recommending 

 it to students and young practitioners as one of the 

 very best, if not actually the best, work to procure 

 on the subject of ophthalmology." British Medi- 

 cal Journal. 



DISEASES OF THE HEART AND THORACIC AOR- 

 TA. By BYROM BRAMWELL, M. D., F. R. C. P. E., Lecturer on the Prin- 

 ciples and Practice of Medicine and on Medical Diagnosis in the Extra- 

 Academical School of Medicine, Edinburgh ; Pathologist to the Royal 

 Infirmary, Edinburgh, etc. 



Illustrated with 226 Wood Engravings and 68 Lithograph Plates, showing 91 Figures in all, 

 317 Illustrations. 1 vol., 8vo, 783 pages. Cloth, $8.00 ; sheep, $9.00. 



" A careful perusal of this work will well repay 

 the student and refresh the memory of the busy 

 practitioner. It is the outcome of sound knowledge 

 and solid work, and thus devoid of all ' padding,' 

 which forms the bulk of many monographs on this 

 and other subjects. The material is treated with 

 due regard to its proportionate importance, and the 

 author has well and wisely carried out his apparent 

 intention of rather furnishing a groundwork of 

 knowledge on which the reader must build for him- 

 self by personal observation, than of making excur- 

 sions into the region of dogma and of fancy by 

 which his book might have secured a perhaps more 

 rapid but certainly a more evanescent success than 

 that which it will now undoubtedly and deservedly 

 attain." Medical Times and Gazette. 



" In this elegant and profusely illustrated vol- 

 ume Dr. Bramwell has entered a field which has 

 hitherto been so worthily occupied by British au- 

 thors Hope, Hayden, Walshe, and others ; and 



we can not but admire the industry and care which 

 he has bestowed upon the work. As it stands, it 

 may fairly be taken as representing the stand-point 

 at which we have arrived in cardiac physiology and 

 pathology ; for the book opens with an extended 

 account of physiological facts, and especially the 

 advances made of late years in the neuro-muscular 

 mechanism of the heart and blood-vessels. Al- 

 though in this respect physiological research has 

 outstripped clinical and pathological observation, 

 Dr. Bramwell has, we think, done wisely in so in- 

 troducing his treatise, and has thereby greatly add- 

 ed to its value. A chapter upon thoracic aneurism 

 terminates a work which, from the scientific man- 

 ner in which the subject is treated, from the care 

 and discrimination exhibited, and the copious elab- 

 orate illustrations with which it is adorned, is one 

 which will advance the author's reputation as a 

 most industrious and painstaking clinical observer." 

 Lancet. 



THE ESSENTIALS OF ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, 



AND HYGIENE. By ROGER S. TRACY, M. D., Sanitary Inspector of 

 the New York City Health Department. 



i2mo. Cloth, $1.25. 



This work has been prepared in response to the demand for a thoroughly scientific and yet 

 practical text-book for schools and academies, which shall afford an accurate knowledge of the 

 essential facts of Anatomy and Physiology, as furnishing a scientific basis for the study of 

 Hygiene and the Laws of Health. It also treats, in a rational manner, of the physiological effects 

 of alcohol and other narcotics, fulfilling all the requirements of recent legislative enactments upon 

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