CATALOGUE OF MEDICAL WORKS. 
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exposition on insanity that has been issued in this 
country by an Amcricun alienist, and, furthermore, 
it is the most instructive and assimilabie that can 
be placed at present in the hands of the student 
uninitiated in psychiatry. The instruction con- 
tained within its pages is a food thoroughly pre- 
pared for mental digestion ; rich in the condiments 
that stimulate the appetite for learning, and sub- 
stantial in the more solid elements taat enlarvre 
and strengthen the intellect.”,-—Wew Orleans Medi- 
cal and Surgical Journal, 
“This is the first systematic attempt, we be- 
lieve, to describe all the various forms of medical 
insanity by their clinical features, and the work is 
destined to rank far above the few treatises that 
are already recognized as authorities on the sub- 
ject. In the consideration of insanity every author 
bas his own pet classification ; but Dr, Hammond’s, 
being based upon clinical manifestations, is more 
complete, more philosophical, and less complex 
than any that we remember to have seen. The 
least we can say is, that, although we differ from 
the author in some of his conclusions, we rarely 
have the privilege to read a book containing so 
much originality and giving so lasting a satistac- 
tion as this. So perfectly natural is the style of 
composition that one feels as if he were reading a 
tascinating novel instead of' a medical treatise, and 
the whole book will interest not only the non- 
medical reader, but also the alienist and general 
practitioner.”’—International Review of Medical 
and Surgical Technics. 
HAMMOND. A Treatise on the Diseases of the Nervous Sys- 
tem. By Wittiam A, Hammonn, M.D., Surgeon-General U. 8. Army 
(retired list); Professor of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System 
in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital ; Member 
of the American Neurological Association and of the New York Neu- 
rological Society ; of the New York County Medical Society, ete. 
Eighth edition, revised, corrected, and enlarged by the 
Addition of a New Section on Certain Obscure Nervous Diseases. 
Cloth, $5.00 ; sheep, $6.00. 
112 Illustrations. 
945 pages. 
With 
8vo. 
The work has received the honor of a French translation by Dr. Labadie-Lagrave, of Paris, and an 
Italian translation, by Professor Diodato Borrelli, of the Royal University, has gone through the press 
at Naples. 
“In the Buddhist faith the eight 
gates of purity are described as: 1. 
Correct ideas ; 2. Correct thoughts ; 
8. Correct words; 4. Correct works; 
5. Correct life; 6. Correct endeav- 
ors; 7. Correct judgment; and 8. 
Correct tranquillity. If Dr. Ham- 
mond has not attained the medical 
nirvana, and passed those eight 
gates of urit7, he has at least 
realized the Buddhist beatitude: 
‘Much in sight and education, 
self-control and eee speech ; 
and whatever word be well spoken, 
this is the greatest blessing.’ At 
least, the thoughts and utterances, 
of Dr. Hammond have been so ad- 
preciated by the medical profession 
of America and England that the 
work has already passed through 
eight editions since its first ap- 
earance in 1871. As now revised 
yy the author and published by 
the Appletons, it constitutes de- 
cidedly the best work in the Eng- 
lish langdage upon diseases of the 
nervous system.’? — Kansas City 
Medical Index. 
“ This excellent work has now 
been fifteen years before the pro- 
fession, its popularity being suffi- 
ciently evidenced by the fact that it 
has rapidly passed through eight 
editions.”’ — College and Clinceal 
Record. 
‘This volume has been received by the profes- 
sion ‘to an extent beyond that ever given to any 
other work of like scope and objects published in 
any part of the world.’ ‘The present edition con- 
SPECIMEN OF ILLUSTRATION. 
tains a section on ‘ Certain Obscure Diseases of the 
Nervous System,’ is thoroughly revised through- 
out, and several changes made, thereby increasing 
greatly its usefulness.”—Buff. Med. and Sur. Jour. 
