Obstetrics. 
Parvin’s Obstetrics—Second Edition. 
The Science and Art of Obstetrics. By THEroPrHiLus 
PARVIN, M. D., LL. D., Professor of Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women 
and Children in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Second edition. 
In one handsome 8vo. volume of 701 pages, with 239 engravings and a 
colored plate. Cloth, $4.25 ; leather, $5.25. 
The second edition of this work is fully | text-book of the first merit. The treatment 
up to the preseat state of advancement of | of the subject gives a real value to the work 
the obstetric art. Rarely in the range of ob- | —the individualities of a practical teacher, 
stetric literacure can be found a work which | a skilful obstetrician, a close thinker and a 
is so comprehensive and yet compact and | ripe scholar.—Medical Record, Jan. 17, 1891. 
practical, In such respect it is essentially a 
Playfair’s Midwifery—Seventh Edition. 
A Treatise on the Science and Practice of Mid- 
wifery. By W.S. PLayrair, M. D., F. R. C. P., Professor of Obstetric 
Medicine in King’s College, London, etc. Fifth American, from the 
seventh English edition. Edited, with additions, by Ropert P. HaRRIs, 
M. D. In one handsome octavo volume of 664 pages, with 207 engravings 
and 5 plates. Cloth, $4.00 ; leather, 
Truly a wonderful book; an epitome of all 
obstetrical knowledge, full, clear and con- 
cise. In thirteen years it has reached seven 
editions, It is perhaps the most popular 
work of its kind ever presented to the pro- 
fession. Beginning with the anatomy and 
physiology of the organs concerned, nothing 
is leftun written that the practical accoucheur 
should know. It seems that every conceiv- 
able physiological or pathological condition 
King’s Obstetrics—New 
A Manual of Obstetrics. 
$5.00. 
from the moment of conception to the time 
of complete involution has had the author’s 
patient attention. The plates and illustra- 
tions, carefully studied, will teach the sci- 
ence of midwifery. The reader of this book 
will have before him the very latest and best 
of obstetric practice; and also of all the 
coincident troubles connected therewith,— 
Southern Practitioner, December, 1889. 
Edition. Just Ready. 
By A. F. A. Kine, M. D., Pro- 
fessor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women in the Medical Department of 
the Columbian University, Washington, D. C., and in the University of 
Vermont, etc. New (Fifth) edition. 
with 150 illustrations. Cloth, $2.50. 
So comprehensive a treatis. could not be 
brought within the limits of a book of this 
_size, were not two things especially true. 
First, Dr. King is a teacher of many years’ 
experience, and knows just how to present 
his subjects in a manner for them to be best. 
received; and,secondly, he can put his ideas 
in aclearand concise form. In other words, 
he knows how to use the English language. 
He gives us the plain truth, free from un- 
In one 12mo. volume of 450 pages, 
necessary ornamentation. Therefore wesay 
there are nine hundred pages of matter bee _ 
tween the covers of this manual of four 
hundred and fifty pages. We cannot imag- 
ine a better manual for the hard-worked 
student; while its clean and practical teach- 
ings make it invaluable to the busy practi- 
tioner. The illustrations add much to the 
subject matt: National Medical Revi 
October, 1892. 
