6 LEA & BLANCHARD'S PUBLICATIONS. 



NOW COMPLETE. 



THE GREAT SURGICAL LIBRARY. 





OF SURGERY, 



BY J. M. CHELIUS, 



Doctor in Medicine and Surgery, Public Professor of General and Ophthalmic Surgery, etc. etc. in the Uni- 

 versity of Heidelberg:. 



TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN, 



AND ACCOMPANIED WITH ADDITIONAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS, 



BY JOHN F. SOUTH, 



*" Surgeon to St. Thomas' Hospital. 



EDITED, WITH REFERENCE TO AMERICAN AUTHORITIES, 



BY GEORGE W. NORRIS, M. D. 

 Now complete in three large octavo volumes of over six hundred pages each, or in 17 numbers, at fifty cents. 



This work has been delayed beyond the time originally promised for its completion, by the very extensive 

 additions of the translator. In answer to numerous inquiries, the publishers now have the pleasure to pre- 

 sent it in a perfect state to the profession, forming three unusually large volumes, bound in the best manner, 

 and sold at a very low price. 



• This excellent work was originally published in Germany, under the unpretending title of "Handbook to 

 the Authors Lectures. ,, In passing, however, through six successive editions, it has gradually increased 

 in exient and importance, until it now presents a complete view of European Surgery in general, but more 

 especially of English practice, and it is acknowledged to be well fitted to supply the admitted want of a com- - 

 plete and extended system of Surgery in all its branches, comprehending both the principles and the prac- 

 tice of this important branch of the healing art. Since Benjamin Bell's great work, first published in 1733, 

 and now almost obsolete, no thorough and extended work has appeared in the English language, occupying 

 the ground which this is so well calculated to cover. 



The fact of this work being earned to six editions in Germany, and translated into no less than eight lan- 

 guages, is a sufficient evidence of the ability with which the author has carried out his arduous design. 



This translation has been undertaken with the concurrence and sanction of Professor Chelius. The trans- 

 lator. Mr. John F. South, appears to have devoted himself to it with singular industry and ardor, and to have 

 brought it up almost to the very hour of publication His notes and additions are very numerous, embodying 

 the results and opinions of all the distinguished surgeons of the day, Continental, English and American. 

 Th uling opinions of John Hunter, on which Modern English Surgery has been raised, are set forth ; the 

 results of the recent microscopical discoveries, especially in reference to inflammation, will be found here, 

 together w^th many other practical observations, placing the work on a level with the present state of &ur- 



•gery, and rendering it peculiarly useful, both to the student and practitioner. . . , 



The labors of the English translator have been so numerous and important, that there is but little which 

 remains to.be supplied. by the American editor. Dr. G. W. Norris has consented, however, to superintend 

 the passage Of the workj through the press, and supply whatever may have been omitted in relation to the 

 Surgical Literature of this country. 



The Medical Press and profession, both in England and in this country, hare joined in 

 praise of this great work, as being more complete than any other, and as affording a complete 

 library of reference, equally suited to the practitioner and to the student. 



"We strongly recommend all surgical practitioners and students, who have not yet looked into this work, 

 to provide themselves with it without delay, and study its pages diligently and deliberately."— The Edin- 

 burgh Medical and Surgical Journal. . . 



• 4 Judging from a s:ng!e number only of this work, we have no hesitation in saying that, if the remaining 



portions correspond at all with the first, it will be by far the most complete and scientific System of burgery 



m the English language. We have, indeed, seen no work which so nearly comes up to our idea of wnax 



such a production should be, both as a practical guide and as a work of reference, as this; and the tact tnai 



lated into seven languages, is sufficientl>,con- 



r and accurate, omitting all m«nor d etailB ana 



,,,,-, „ ~ in the shortest and simplest iotm.»—TM**" 



York Journal of Medicine. , . 



" Nor do these parts, in any degree, fall short of their predecessors, in the copiousness and value of their 

 details. The work certainly forms an almost unique curiosity in medical literature, in the fact that mo 

 notes occupy a larger portion of the volume than the original matter, an arrangement which is con * ian I 

 appearing to render the text subsidiary to its illustrations. Stili this singularity of manner does not ai 

 detract from the value of the matter thus disposed."— The London Medical Gazette. , tha 



u This work has lon^been the chief text-book on Surgery in the principal schools of Germany, ana iii 

 publication of five editions of it in the original and of translations into no less than eight foreign £ n f ^l » 

 shows the high estimation in which it is held. As a systematic work on Surgery it has merits of a nign ow - 

 It is methodical and concise— and on the whole clear and accurate. The most necessary information _ 

 conveyed in the shortest and simplest form 

 fact, essentially a practical book. This 



permanent reputation has no doubt led Mr. South to undertake the present translation of tne iwj 51 

 of it, which, we are informed, is still passing through the press in Germany. We should have felt ai a - 

 to select any one better qualified for the task than the translator of Otto's Compendium of Human ana 

 parative Pathological Anatomy- a surgeon to a large hospital whose industry and opportunities u 

 enabled him to keep pace wiih the improvements of his time."— The Medico- Chirurgical Review. nre?en t 

 " Although Great Britain can boast of some of the most skillful surgeons, both among.her past and ne r pr ^ 

 professors of that branch of medical science, no work professing to be a complete system of surgery n 

 published in the British dominions since that of Benjamin Bell, now more than half a century old. ro / es . 



suffic nt proof of the estimation in which it is held bv our continental brethren, and the . En ? n *, h ;T ham i§ 

 now in course of publication, loses none of the value of the original from the treatment received at ■""> ' - t . 

 of its translator. The notes and additions of Professor South are numerous, and contain the opinions r* 

 ing trom his vast experience, and from that of his colleague."— The Medical Times. « v *tematic 



'•It ably maintains the character formerly given, of being- the 'most learned and com P l * te .*li Ae part- 

 treatise now extant The descriptions of surgical diseases, arid indeed the whole of the pathological u * 

 men t, are most Valuable."— The Edinburgh Medical and T Surgical Journal. . _ .. fy t 



dj" Persons wishing this work sent to them by mail, in parts, can remit Ten 1JoM * V.^ 

 which a set will be sent by fhe publishers, free of postage, together with a copy ol 

 Medical News and Library" for one year. 



