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REVIEWS. 
large first edition been exhausted, and its successor presents 
us with an addition of 100 closely printed pages, and no less 
than 150 woodcuts, besides the original 250 . The publisher 
and his satellites, the compositor and engraver, cannot be 
denied the merit of having done their work. What about 
the author? 
Thus begins the Preface : “ In preparing a second edition 
of this work for the press, every page has been carefully re- 
vised. Some chapters have been almost completely re- 
written. The text has been considerably enlarged. . . . 
The additions are almost exclusively of a practical character; 
my wish being to make the work a guide to the practitioner, 
as well as a text-book to the student. Having this double 
object in view, I have entered with much minuteness into 
many practical details, which I trust will be found as useful 
to the student as they are important to the practitioner. 
My increasing experience as a teacher leading me to fear 
that there is no little risk of the cultivation of the art not 
keeping pace with the progress of the science of surgery.” 
Has not Mr. Erichsen been too complacent with the ad- 
vocates of th e practical? We have no faith in hands without 
brains, and as a rule which challenges exception, it may 
safely be laid down that the eulogists of simple handicraft, 
in medicine, are actuated in their satire on scientific men, by 
something like the same feeling with which it may reasona- 
bly be supposed the eunuchs of the East regard the perfect 
lords of the creation. It is not that science is in excess ; we 
think it falls short of the requirement; certainly much of it 
that passes current is, if not base metal, at least what electro- 
plate is to real silver. When, however, Mr. Erichsen ex- 
presses a fear lest art do not keep pace with science in sur- 
gery, we fully agree with him, and we extend our belief to 
the whole domain of medicine. A medical man cannot have 
too much of science , but he must not know too little of art . 
Now this is apt to be lost sight of, and the cause of progress 
suffers by men, teachers as well as pupils, seeming to believe 
that the aids of modern discovery can dispense with the 
essential of old common-place. The stethoscope, the micro- 
