LEA & BLANCHARD'S PUBLIC ATIONS.

A MEDICAL LIBRARY

FOR THE PRACTITIONER AND STUDENT.

A SYSTEM OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE, Comprised in a Series of OriginalDissertation^ arrangcd and edited by ALEXANDER tWEEDIE, M.D., F.R.S.,&c, &e. The whole revised, with Notes and Addition?, by W. W. GERHARD,M.D., Lectnrer on Clinical Medicine to the University of Pennsylvania. The secondAmerican Edition, now complete in Three large Volumes.

T!ie design of this work is to supply the want, ironerally admitted to exist in the Medical Iäteratureof Great ßritain.of a comprehensive System of Medicine, ombodying r a Condensed, yel ample view of thePtesent State of the Science. The desideratnn. is innre especiaj£y feit by the Medicai Student, and bytaany Menvbers of the Profession, who, from their avocations and othw circumstances, Uave not theopportunity of keeping pace \vith the more recent yaaprovemeBts in the rnosi interostinjr and usefulbranch of human knowled^;. To supply this ib'äiciency is the ohject of the LIBRARY OF MEDICINE;and the Editor expressed the hope, that with the assistance with which he has been favoured by contri-hutors, (tnany of great eminence, am! all rhvo«rahly kmiwn to the Public), he has been able to produce awork, which will form a Library of General Reference on Theoretical and Practical Medicine, as well asa Series of Text-Books for the Medical Student.

Ädvertisement of the American Puhlishers to their JSFew Edition in Three Volumes.The matter enabraced in the Three Volumes now presented, was published in London in Pive separatevohimes, and af intervals republished in thiscöuntry. The rapid sale of Sfrese volumes, embracing asthey do, a History of Practica! Medicine, is the best evidence of the favnut wirb which it hns been re-ceived by the Physicians of the United Siai.es. Embodying as it does the most recent Information onnearly every Disease, and written by men who have specially devot ed. themselves to the study of theDisgrders which lorin liie suhjeet of their Ärticifis, the work is the most valuable for Reference witbinthe reacb of a practitioner. The arrangötnent of the Libkary irrtoClas?es of Diseases, grouped aecord-ingto the caviticspf the bpdy, is mach more agreeable to the reader than the alphahetical order, andnearly as convenient tor reference.

DISEASES OF CHILDREN.

A TREATISE ON THE PHYSICAL AND MEDICAL TREATMENT OFCHILDREN, BY WILLIAM P. DEWEES, M.D., late Professor of Midwiferj in

the University of Pennsylvania, &c. &c. T3ie Eighth Edition, broujrht up to 1843,in 1 vol. 8vo,

TWs edition embodies the notes and additiorts prepared by Br. Dewees before bis deaih, and will befoimd inucli iinproved.

The objeets of Ibis work are, Ist. to teacb thöse who have the Charge of cbildren, either as parent or«.■iiardian, themoat approved methodsof securuig and iiMproving their pbysical powera, This is atteinptedby pointing oui the duties which the parent or the guatdian owes for tliis purpose, to this iuteresting buthelplesscjass of beings, and the manner by which their duties shall be fuliiited. And 3d, to rendoe avail-able a long experience to those objeets of our afiection when they become diseaseA. In aitempting this,the author h-as avoided as nmch as possible, " terhuicaüiy;" and baägiv&n, if he docs not Satter himselftoo inuch, to each disease of which he treuts, its appropriate and desjgnaü#g cnaraeters, wiili a udalitythat will prevent any two being cönfounded together, with the best mode of treating them. that eitherbis own fixporience or that of others has suggested. Physicians cannot too stvongiy recominend the useof this Book in all famüies.

A NEW WORK,—DUNGLISON'STHERAPEUTICS AND MATERIA MEDICA.

GENERAL THERAPEUTICS AND MATERIA MEDIOA, ADAPTED FORA MEDICAL TEXT-BUGE, BY EOBLEY DÜNGLLSON, M.D., Prolessor ofInstitutes of Medicine, &c, in 2 vols. 8vo.— Just ready.

A second edition of tlie ivnrk on Gourra! Tfterapeutics, being called for by the pnblishers, the authorhas deemed it advisshfd to incorporate with it ah aeconnt of the rhffitrent artictes of the Materia Medica.To tlu's he has beert led by the ciremnstance, that the (lepartments of Geäerai Tiierapeuties and MateriaMertlca are aWays associated in Hie Medical Schon!». Tlie attthor's great ubjeet has been to prepare aworlt which may axd the Metiical Sttttfent'ia acquiring the main results of modern Observation and reiiec-tion ; and. at the satue tiine, be to tiie Medical Praetitroner a trustworthy book of reference.

Throughout, Ue has adopted the Nometiciature of the last e.iition of the Phörmaoo}KBia of tlie UnitedStates, a work which ought to be in the hands of every i>r;ictitioner as a guide in the preparatioil ofmedteines; and he itas endeavoured to arranee the articies in each tüvisioti, as nearly as he coulil, in theorder of their eflxaey as Therapeutical agent?.

DEWEES' MIDWIFERY.

A COiMPENDlOUS SYSTEM OF MIDWIFERY, chiefly dppitrned to facilitatethe inquirics of those who may be pufouing this branch of study. Iilustrated by occa-sional cases, with miny plates. The tenth edition, with additiona and improvements,by W. P. DEWEES, M.D., late Profesfibl of Midwifeiy in the University of Penn-sylvania, in one volume 8vo.