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LIST OF BOOKS

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HENRY RENSHAW, 356, STRAND.

M. ANDRAL.

THE CLINIQUE MÉDICALE; or Reports of Medical Cases by G. Andral. Translated, with copious Notes. By D. SPILLAN, M.D., Fellow of the College of Physicians in Ireland. In one vol. 8vo. price 25s. cloth.

"We earnestly recommend our young friends to lose no time in adding this translation to their stock of medical authorities."-Forbes's Review.

DR. GREGORY.

THE ELEMENTS of the THEORY and PRACTICE of MEDICINE. BY GEORGE GREGORY, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. The fifth Edition, considerably enlarged. 8vo. cloth, price 16s.

"We can recommend it in its present improved form as the best elementary treatise on Medicine which the student or young practitioner can consult; it contains practical descriptions of disease, which leave little to be desired for accuracy or faithfulness."-Lancet.

DR. EVANSON and DR. MAUNSELL,

PRACTICAL TREATISE on the MANAGEMENT and DISEASES of CHILDREN. By RICHARD T. EVANSON, M.D., and H. MAUNSELL, M.D. Fourth Edition. 8vo. cloth, lettered, price 12s. 6d.

"The second chapter embraces the management and physical education of children. This chapter ought to be printed in gold letters, and hung up in the nursery of every family: it would save many lives, and prevent much suffering."-Med. Chir. Rev.

"Their book bears intrinsic evidence of the fruits of careful observation; it is judiciously and carefully drawn up, and exhibits the joint production of the fellow-labourers in a very attractive light."Medical Gazette.

HERBERT MAYO, Esq.

OUTLINES of HUMAN PATHOLOGY; containing the Morbid Affections of the Bones, Joints, Muscles, Nerves, Spinal Cord, Brain, Integuments, Digestive Organs, Blood Vessels, Heart, Lungs, and Urino-genital System. By HERBERT MAYO, F.R.S. 8vo. cloth, price 18s.

"In barely more than a page we find nearly all that is certainly known of the pathology of dropsy." "We cannot afford space for noticing the diseases of the joints, the discussion of which, as of other subjects of surgical pathology, the author displays more than usual ability."-Forbes's Review.

SIR CHARLES BELL.

THE NERVOUS SYSTEM of the HUMAN BODY; as explained in a series of papers read before the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, with an Appendix of Cases and Consultations on Nervous Diseases. By SIR CHARLES BELL, F.R.S.S. L. and E. Third Edition, with sixteen highly finished Steel Engravings, and three additional papers on the Nerves of the Encephalon. 8vo. cloth, price 10s. 6d.

WILLIAM ACTON, Esq.

A COMPLETE PRACTICAL TREATISE on VENEREAL DISEASES, and their IMMEDIATE and REMOTE CONSEQUENCES; including Observations on certain Affections of the Uterus attended with Discharges. By WILLIAM ACTON, late Externe of the Female Venereal Hospital, Paris. 8vo. illustrated by eight large Coloured Plates and numerous Wood Engravings, cloth, price 17. 18.

"The work abounds with practical views, which are novel to the English reader; and the various subjects are treated in a very methodical and complete manner."-Provincial Medical Journal. "We recommend this work to the attention of our readers, as worthy their perusal."-Lancet.

DR. FORBES.

A TREATISE on DISEASES of the CHEST, and on MEDIATE AUSCULTATION. By R. T. H. LAENNEC, M.D. Translated from the latest French Edition, with Notes, and a Sketch of the Author's Life, by JOHN FORBES, M.D. The fourth Edition, illustrated by Plates, 8vo. boards, price 188.

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INTRODUCTION.

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DEFINITION OF SURGERY.-ITS RELATION TO THE HEALING ART IN GENERAL.-DIVISION OF SURGICAL DISEASES.

ALL diseases to which the animal organism is exposed, are the object of the science of healing, the purpose of which is their prevention, cure, or alleviation. The means we employ to these ends are either dietetic or pharmaceutic, or they consist in the application of suitable mechanism, which we call surgical means, and the doctrine of their proper employment, which is called surgery.

Every mechanical influence employed with skill upon the diseased organism is called a surgical operation. This influence consists either in a direct interference with the form and natural connexion of the part (Bloody operations, Akiurgie (a), Germ.); or only in a momentary or continued application of mechanism fitted to the surface of our bodies; to which belong bandages and machines, simple manipulations for restoring the natural position of parts, and the employment of suitable mechanism for repairing parts which have been destroyed (Kosmetik (b), Germ.)

There are diseases which specially require the employment of one or other class of the means just mentioned: the purpose, however, of the healing art is in most cases but imperfectly attained, if the medical man be not possessed of the requisite knowledge for deciding upon the necessary connexion of these means, so as properly to conduct their operation by a sufficient acquaintance with the laws of our organism, whence it necessarily follows that there cannot be established any true separation between the so-called medical and surgical treatment.

The employment of surgical means calls for peculiar dexterity and aptness which natural talents and disposition and long practice can alone confer. "Esse autem chirurgus debet," says CELSUS (c)," adolescens, aut certè adolescentiæ propior, manu strenuâ, stabili nec unquam intremiscente, eâque non minus sinistra quam dextrâ promptus, acie oculorum acri clarâque; animo intrepidus, immisericors, sic, ut sanari velit eum, quem accepit, non ut clamore ejus motus, vel magis, quam res desiderat, properet, vel minus, quam necesse est, secet; sed perinde faciat omnia, ac si nullus ex vagitibus alterius affectus oriretur." Only in reference therefore to the physical and psychical characters of the medical man, can there be any division in the practice of medicine and surgery: in their attainment they cannot be separated, and, by the union of medical and surgical study alone, can the foundation be destroyed upon which so much bungling, and so many practices unworthy of the spirit of high art, have hitherto been supported.

(a) 'Axn, the edge of a knife; gyoy, an opera

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Korusw, to set in order.
(c) De Medicinâ, præf. ad lib. vii.

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