Nothnagel's Encyclopedia 



OF 



PRACTICAL MEDICINE. 



AMERICAN EDITION. 

 Edited by ALFRED STENQEL, M.D., 



Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania; Visiting 

 Physician to the Pennsylvania Hospital. 



IT is universally acknowledged that the Germans lead the world in Internal Medicine; 

 and of all the German works on this subject, Nothnagel's " Specielle Patholog-ie und 

 Therapie" is conceded by scholars to be without question the best System of Medicine 

 in existence. So necessary is this book in the study of Internal Medicine that it comes 

 largely to this country in the original German. In view of these facts, Messrs. W. B. 

 Saunders & Company have arranged with the publishers to issue at once an authorized 

 American edition of this great encyclopedia of medicine. 



For the present a set of ten volumes, representing the most practical part of this 

 excellent encyclopedia, and selected with especial thought of the needs of the practical 

 physician, will be published. These volumes will contain the real essence of the entire 

 work, and the purchaser will therefore obtain at less than half the cost the cream of the origi- 

 nal. Later the special and more strictly scientific volumes will be offered from time to time. 



The work will be translated by men possessing thorough knowledge of both English and 

 German, and each volume will be edited by a prominent specialist on the subject to 

 which it is devoted. It will thus be brought thoroughly up to date, and the American edition 

 will be more than a mere translation of the German; for. In addition to the matter contained 

 in the original, it will represent the very latest views of the leading American and 

 English specialists in the various departments of Internal Medicine. The whole System 

 will be under the editorial supervision of Dr. Alfred Stengel, who will select the subject; 

 for the American edition, and will choose the editors of the different volumes. 



Unlike most encyclopedias, the publication of this work will not be extended over a 

 number of years, but five or six volumes will be issued during the coming year, and the 

 remainder of the series at the same rate. Moreover, each volume will be revised to the 

 date of its publication by the eminent editor. This will obviate the objection that has 

 heretofore existed to systems published in a number of volumes, since the subscriber will 

 receive the completed work while the earlier volumes are still fresh. 



The usual method of publishers, when issuing a work of this kind, has been to compel 

 physicians to take the entire System. This seems to us in many cases to be undesirable. 

 Therefore, in purchasing this encyclopedia, physicians will be given the opportunity of 

 subscribing for the entire System at one time; but any single volume or any number of 

 volumes may be obtained by those who do not desire the complete series. This latter 

 method, while not so profitable to the publishers, offers to the purchaser many advan- 

 tages which will be appreciated by those who do not care to subscribe for the entire work 

 at one time. 



This American edition of Nothnagel's Encyclopedia will, without question, form the 

 greatest System of Medicine ever produced, and the publishers are confident that it 

 will meet with general favor in the medical profession. 



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