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STILLE (ALFRED), M.D. 

 THERAPEUTTCS AND MATERIA MEDICA; a Systematic Treatise on the 



Action and Uses of Medicinal Agenls, including Iheir Description and History. In two large 



and handsome octavo volumes, of 1789 pages. {Just Issued.) S8 00. 



This work is desif^ned especially for the student and practitioner of medicine, and treats the variouit 

 articles of the Materia Medica from the point of view of the bedside, and not ot the shop or of the 

 ieciure-room While ihns endeavoring to give all practical informalion likely to be useful with 

 respect lo the empl.tyment of special remedies in special affections, and the results to be anticipated 

 /rem their adiinni>trat'on, a copious Index of Diseases and their Remedies renders the work erai- 

 nenlly htled for reference by showing at a glance the different means which have been employed, 

 and enabluig the practitioner to extend his resources in difficult ca-es with all that the expeiieace 

 of the protession has suggested. 



Rarely, iiidr^nd, have we hud submitted to us a 



work on metficine sn ponderouu ia its dimensions 

 as that now before ue, and yet so fascinating in its 

 conten's. It is, thpfefore. with a peculiar gratifi- 

 cation that we rpcognize in Dr. Siill^ the posses- 

 sion of rniiny of those more (listuiguialied qualifica- 

 tions which entitle him to approbation, and which 

 justify him in coming before his medical brethren 

 H8 an instrHctor. a comprehensive knowledge, 

 tcKted by a s(mrnl and ppnetrating judgment, joined 

 l<» a love of progress -which a Uiscrirninating spirit 

 of inquiry has tempered so ns to accept nothing new 

 because it is new, and abandon nothing old because 

 it is olil, but whicli esr.imates either acoort ing to its 

 relations •<) a just logic and experience — manifests 

 icself eifprywhere, and irives to the guidance of the 

 author all he assurance of safety which the difFi 

 eultiea of I'is sub ect can allow. In conclusion, we 

 earncfitlv advise nur roadets to ascertain for thtm- 

 selves, by a btuf'v of Dr Salle's volumes, the great 

 value and iulertst of the stores of knowledge they 

 present. We have pleasure in referring rather to 

 the ample trensury of undoubted truths, the real and 

 assured conquest of medicine, accumulated by Dr. 

 Stille in his pages ; and cotnmend the sum uf his la- 

 bors tti the fittention of our readersj as alike honor- 

 able to our science, and creditable to the zeal, the 

 randOT, and the judgment of him who has garnered 

 the whole so carefully. — Edinburgh Med. Journal. 



Our expectitions of the value of this work were 

 based on the well-known reputation and character 

 of the author as a man of scholarly attainments, an 

 elegant writer, a candid inquirer after truth, and u 

 philosophical thinker; we knew that the task would 

 be conscientiously performed, and that few, if any, 

 amon? tne distinguished medical teachers in this 

 country are uetrer qualified than le to prepare a 

 Bysten.atic treatise on tlieiapeutics in accordnnce 

 with the present requirements of medical science. 

 Uur preliminary examination of the work has satis- 



fied us that we were not mistaken in our anticipi- 



tiona. — New Orleans medical News, March, 1360. 



The most recent authority is the one last men- 

 tioned, Salid. HiH great work on *' Materia Medi- 

 ca and Therapeutics," published last year, in two 

 octavo volumes, of some sixteen hundred pages, 

 while it embodies the results of the labor of others 

 up to tne time of publication, is enriched with a 

 great amount of original observation and research. 

 We would draw attention, by the way, to the very 

 convenient mode in which the Index is arranged in 

 this work. There is firstan '* Index of Remedies ;" 

 next an "Index of Diseases and their Remedies." 

 Such an arrangement of the Indices, in our opinion, 

 g ready enhances the practical value of books of this 

 kind. In tedious, obstinate cases of disease, where 

 we ha\re to try one remedy after another until our 

 stoclt is pretty nearly exhausted, and we are almost 

 driven to our wit's end, such an index as the second 

 of the two just raentit)ned, is precisely what we 

 want. — London Med. Tinfsand ffaze^e, April, 1861. 



We think this work will do much to obviate the 

 reluctance to a thorough investigation of this branch 

 of scientific study, for in the wide range of medical 

 literature treasured in the English tongue, we shall 

 hardly find a work written m a style more clear and 

 simple, conveying forcibly the fat-te taught, and yet 

 free from turgidity and redundancy. There is a (as- 

 eination in its pages that will insure to it a wide 

 popularity and attentive perusal, and a decree of 

 ussfulncbs not often attained through the influence 

 of a single work. Tlie author has much enhanced 

 ,the practical utility of his book by passing briefly 

 over the physical, botaniial, and commercial history 

 of medicines, and directing attention cliieiiy to their 

 physiological action, and their application for the 

 amelioration or cure of disease. Heign >re8 hypothe- 

 siB and theory which are so alluring to m;iny medical 

 writers, and so liable to lead lliem astray, and con- 

 fines himiclf to such facts as have been tried in the 

 crucible of experience. — Chicago Medical Journal. 



SMITH (HENRY H.), M. D. AND HORNEH (WILLIAM E.), M. D. 

 AN AJN ATOMIC AL ATLAS, illustrative of the Structure of the Human Body. 



In one volume, large imperial octavo, extra cloth, with about six hundred and fifty beautiful 

 figures. «3 00. 



These figures are well selected, and present a 

 aomplete and accunite representation of that won- 

 derful fabric, the human body. The plan of this 

 Atlas, which renders it so peculiarly convenient 

 fur the student, and its superb artistical execution, 

 have been already pointed out. We must congratu- 



late the student upon the com.pletion of this Atlas 

 as it is the most convenient work of the kind that 

 has yet appeared ; and we must add, the very beau- 

 tiful manner in which it is '* got up" is so creditabla 

 to the country as to be flattering to our national 

 pride. — American Medical Journal. 



SHARPEY (WILLIAM), M.D., JONES QUAIN, M.D., AND 

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HUMAN ANATOMY. Eevised, with Notes and Additions, by Joseph Leidi, 



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SIMPSON (J. Y. , M. D., 



Professor of Midwifery, &.C., in the University of Edinburgh, ice. 



CLINICAL LKCTUllES ON THE DISEASES OP FEMALES. 



rous illustrations. 



This valuable feries of practical Lectures is now appearing in the "Medicai. News and 

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 " Amukican Journal of the JVIkdicaj, Scibnces." See p. 2. 



With 



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