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Show country, hitherto not yet received the high appreciation which it deserves, at the hands of our PROSPECTUS. fraternity, 1101' does it as yet occupy the foremost seat in our medical schools. to which it is 'l‘nr: great favor with which my former work, The Atlas of Ilmnmi Anatomy. was received in the medical ranks, encourages me to place before them the present work on justly entitled. For, until recently, a thorough training in morbid anatomy and histology was not essential, to considered the student or one-sided, and pretending that all to the practitioner. pathology is to be And yet, without being learned on the cadaver only. any one at all acquainted with the history of medicine of our century must acknowledge. that positive knowledge of pill/IoIIq/iml facts and I‘HIl/y ilscf'u/ uu-I/uu/s' of diagnosis, were only discovered and devoloped by the men constituting the great schools of pathological anatomy PATHOLOGTCAL ANATOMY, and histology, from Mathew Baillie and Yetter, Lacncc, (,‘orvisart, etc., etc., to llokilanski and Virchow ot' our day. PATHOLOGY AND PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS. In compiling the subjects ot' pathological anatomy for this work, I was careful to select only such as were capable of representing typical forms of diseases. and used only those that 1T Is INTENDED THAT IT SHOULD coxsTITUTE were drawn from nature, under the immediate supervision of the reporter of the case. A Collection of Iconographic and Descriptive Clinical Object Lessons, systematically arranged, and comprising all the lesions of the human body, in which the changes taken place, during the processes reliability and fitness for instruction is thus vouched for. 'l‘hcir In giving the history of each ease. I followed verbatim the author's own description, but in explaining the general and special pathology, 1 followed the most modern medical teachings. and doctrines recognized by the profession as of standard authority: carefully avoiding all subjects still under controversy. and of disease, have left their trace behind them after deatl . not considered as yet established. The same rules I observed. and the same methods I followed. in the treatment of physical diagnosis. This branch of practical medicine has. fortunately. moved far in advance of nearly e\ery other. in our profession. The use of every one of our By reporting authentic cases and their histories, which are on record in hospital journals senses in recognizing diseased conditions of the body. has been attended with so much more and in current medical literature. the Rise, Progress and 'l‘crmination of diseases will he success and usefulness. the more the laws of sound. of light, of electricity and molecular .ustralv-d 'l‘hose histories will relate the various phases of the march of the diseases. the dynamics like chemistry. have become better understood, symptoms my presented at different intervals, and will state the peculiar circumstances l have endeavored to set forth all the improved methods. and indicated the use of appliances which inevitaoéy led to a fatal termination of those cases. now in use in physical diagnosis. In the t-mortem reports, there will be carefully noted, all the peculiarities of the The mechanical finish of the work. the publishers have promised to be of thc very best. morbidly changed tissues and organs, observed innnediately after death. before they had Excellent paper, line and new type. and artistic pcrliirmances ofthc best lithograpbers and lost 'iilir proper color, and their form and texture were changed by Preservatives. The printers in this country. will make it worthy of any library, private or public. drawing aml coloring of the morbid specimens are most exactly executed by skillful draughts.I. A. .Il‘l.\N(3‘()N. )l. l). men and colorists. and readily They will thus perfectly represent the actual state of the diseased parts, indicate the intimate relation, existing between the symptoms 111anifestcd in diseases, and the anatomical and functional changes producing them. That a work of this kind is needed in this country is unquestionable. "'e have, it is true. a great many valuable works on general and special pathology by native authors. and excellent translations from the loreign; but we have as yet not one single The whole work will consist of one hundred colored and black full page illustrations. in ltoyal Folio, and one hundred pages text of the same size. illustrations embodied in the text. Besides very numerous lesser For the convenience of purchasers, and to make it accessible to everybody, it has been divided into twenty-live parts. Each part containing four plates. illustrations, and four pages of text, at $1.00. work on morbid anatomy. so arranged, and the pathological facts so clearly set forth. as to give the medical student. or even the medical practitioner, who has had few or no opportunities to witness the actual changes of the bodily structures, by disease. a clear conception and a PROGRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY, ROOM T, PIKE's OPERA BUILDING, correct notion of the history of development of diseases; especially of the exact relation of CINCINN'ATI, Oil] 0. cause and effect existing in diseases to symptoms. In fact, pathological anatomy has, in our |
