CATALOGUE OF MEDICAL WORKS. 13 
regiments of militia of the various States, for which, and for the classes for instruction, the book is 
especially designed, it will be of inestimable value. The methods employed in the United States Army 
for the transportation of wounded men, the manner in which swords, bayonets, and guns can be used 
as splints or as means of transportation, are fully described and illustrated. 
The book is of a size convenient for the pont and embraces a greater range of subjects than is 
found in any work of the kind heretofore published; and its completeness and simplicity commend it 
to the general public as well as to that portion which forms the militia of the States ot the Union. 
DOWN. Health Primers. Edited by J. Lancpon Down, M. D., F. R. 
C.P.; Henry Power, M.B., F.R.C.8.; J. Morrmer-Granvitte, 
M.D.; Joun Tweepy, F.R.C.8. In square 16mo volume. Cloth, 40 
cénts each. 
Taeigh it is of the greatest importance that books upon health should be in the highest degree 
trustworthy, it is notorious that most of the cheap and. popular kind are mere crude compilations of in- 
competent persons, and are often misleading and injurious. Impressed by these considerations, several 
eminent medical and scientific men of London have combined to prepare a series of Heatta Primers 
of a character that shall be entitled to the fullest confidence. They are to be brief, simple, and ele- 
mentary in statement, filled with substantial and useful information suitable for the guidance of grown- 
up people. Each primer will be written by a gentleman specially competent to treat his subject, while 
the critical supervision of the books is in the hands of a committee who will act as editors. 
As these little books are produced by English authors, they are naturally based very much upon 
English experience, but it matters little whence illustrations upon such subjects are drawn, because the 
essential conditions of avoiding discase and preserving health are to a great degree everywhere the same. 
Volumes now ready. 
], Exerorsr anp TRarnine. V. Persona, APPEARANCE IN HEALTH AND Dis- 
Il. Axconot: 17s Use anp ABUSE. EASE. 
Ill. Prematore Dxata: rts PRoMoTION AND VI. Barus ann Baruine. 
PREVENTION. VII. Tae Siw anp its TROUBLES. 
IV. Taz House anp irs SurRounpines. VII. Tre Heart anv its Fenotions. 
IX. Tue Nervous System. 
ELLIOT. Obstetric Clinic. A Practical Contribution to the Study of 
Obstetrics, and the Diseases of Women and Children. By Grorce T. 
Exuiot, M. D., late Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and 
Children in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College ; Physician to Bellevue 
Hospital and to the New York Lying-in Asylum, etc. 8vo, 458 pages. 
Cloth, $4.50. 
This work is, in a measure, a réswmé of separate papers proviondly prepersd by the late Dr. Elliot ; 
and contains, besides, a record of nearly two hundred important and di t cases in midwitery, selecte 
from his own practice. The cases thus collected represent faithfully the difficulties, anxieties, and dis- 
appointments inseparable from the practice of obstetrics, as well as some of the successes for which the 
profession are entitled to hope in these arduous and responsible tasks. It has met with a hearty recep- 
tion, and has received the highest encomiums both in this country and in Europe. 
EVANS. Hand-Book of Historical and Geographical Phthisi- 
ology, with Special Reference to the Distribution of Consumption in the 
United States. Compiled and arranged by GrorcE A. Evans, M.D., 
Member of the Medical Society of the County of Kings, New York ; 
Member of the American Medical Association ; formerly Physician to the 
Atlantic Avenue, and Bushwick and East Brooklyn Dispensaries, ete. 
8vo, 294 pages. Cloth, $2.00. 
“This work of Dr, Evans’s presents a most The author has evidently exercised an unusual 
comprehensive view of the subject of phthisis. amount of painstaking care in the compilation of 
The historical sketch of the disease is complete and his statistics, with the result of affording the reader 
entertaining, the account of the geographical dis- an accurate picture of the climatic and geographical 
tribution, both in this country and abroad, very factors that bear such an important part in the dis- 
instructive, and the conclusions drawn are logical tribution of the disease. The book is one which 
and concise. Considerable space is given to the should meet with a large sale.”— Pittsburgh Medi- 
topography and meteorology of different parts of cal Review. 
the United States with reference to consumption. 
