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were allowable, we could go on much f urtber, and we doubt not the matter 
which we should abstract would prove equally interesting and not less true 
to nature. 
PORTRAITS OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION." 
T HE attempt to produce a series of photographs, accompanied by bio- 
graphical sketches of the men who are eminent in the medical 
profession, has been attempted at various times of late years, but unfortu- 
nately with very little success ; so little indeed, that the work, no matter 
how well it has been done, has seldom outlived the first year of its existence. 
In the present issue we have the first volume of a work on this plan, viz., 
portraits of distinguished men, with short shetches of their lives, and we 
think it clearly merits the success which its authors, if we may so call the 
photographers who have executed the portraits, hope it to attain. It 
contains twenty-four pictures of the cabinet size, of different medical men, 
some of whom have reached the highest steps of the professional ladder ; 
some who have since its publication deceased, and a few who have hardly 
merited so much distinction as is awarded to them. Following each por- 
trait is a page sketch of the life of the sitter, and in this we think the 
artists have done well in confining themselves simply to facts. Thus we are 
told when the person portrayed was born, when he entered the profession, 
where he studied, where he graduated or obtained his license, to what 
hospitals or institutions he belongs, and what he has written, and in some 
instances to whom he has been married, and what children he possesses. 
It will thus be seen that it is a fuller biography than that in the 11 Medical 
Directory ” — in which, by the way, a very excellent though brief account is 
contained — whilst it possesses the character of that book in strictly confining 
itself to facts. On the whole, we may express our approval of all the 
photographs in the present volume ; but there are some which merit especial 
approval, as being eminently life-like portraits. Of these we may mention 
those of Sir T. Watson, Dr. L. Beale, Sir James Paget, Sir H. Thompson, 
Sir H. Holland, and Mr. Spencer Smith, the last being an admirable por- 
trait. Some, again, are not so life-like ; as, for example, Sir W. Fergusson. 
Still they all form a very excellent volume, which we trust will meet 
commercially with so much success that we may soon look forward to this 
year’s volume coming out. We should advise the publishers to issue an index 
in the next volume, and to have the biographies paged, as thereby much 
confusion will be avoided in searching for any wished-for biography or 
portrait. 
* “ The Medical Profession in all Countries ; ” containing Photographic 
Portraits from Life. By Barraud & Jerrard. London: Barraud & jerrard, 
Gloucester Place, W. 
