The rules of aseptic and antiseptic surgery : a practical treatise for the use of students and the general practitioner / by Arpad G. Gerster.

  • Gerster, Arpad G. (Arpad Geyza), 1848-1923.
Date:
1892
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Credit: The rules of aseptic and antiseptic surgery : a practical treatise for the use of students and the general practitioner / by Arpad G. Gerster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Specimen of Illustration. STRUMPELL. A Text-Book of Medicine. For Students and Prac- titioners. By Adolph Ste&mpell, formerly Professor and Director of the Medical Polyclinic at the University of Leipsic. Translated, by per- mission, from the second and third German editions by Herman F. Vickery, A. B., M. D., Assistant in Clinical Medicine, Harvard Medical School, etc., and Philip Coombs Knapp, Physician to Out-patients with Diseases of the Nervous System, Boston City Hospital, etc. With Editorial Notes by Frederick C. Shattuck, A. M., M. D., Instructor in the Theory and Practice of Physic, Harvard Medical School, etc. With 111 Illustrations. 8vo. 981 pages. Cloth, $6.00 ; sheep, $7.00. The above work, which is new to most of our readers, has achieved great success in Germany, having reached the third edition in a very short time. It has been introduced as the text-book on medicine in the Harvard Medical School. The work is especially commendable in its treatment of nervous diseases, which are dealt with fully, concisely, and clearly. The pathology of disease, as might be expected from so eminent a teacher, has received due and careful attention, and this is another strong feature of the work. The author gives in this work the results of the experience and observation of more than six years' active work in the medical clinic in Leipsic.' We heartily commend the work to the attention of our readers. —Canada Lancet. In spite of the fact that within the last year or two so many excellent works on general medi- cine have appeared, we think there will be found a place for the volume before us. The best part of the hook is the section devoted to nervous diseases. The various affections of the nervous system are discussed in a very concise way, together with the most recent discoveries in neuro-pathology. The translators have done their work well, and the edi- tor has made a number of important additions. Altogether the book is a very valuable contribution and compilation, and will be useful both to teacher and practitioner.—Mart/land Medical Journal. The work before us is one that is peculiarly attractive to the student of medicine, not only on account of the well-delineated German plans of treatment, but especially for the clear and accurate pathology given by the author in almost all dis- eases. Or. Shattuck states that he is acquainted with no work which treats of the diseases of the nervous system, in which our knowledge has ad- vanced so rapidly of late years, so fully, concisely, and clearly. The style is clear for a German work, which as a rule do' not make models in this par- ticular. The translators have overcome the diffi- culties of the original so successfully that they have made it a decidedly agreeable text-book. The hook is extremely popular in Germany, bav- ins reached the third edition in a comparatively short time, and we do not doubt but that its popu- larity in America will soon be assured.—Missis- sippi Valley Medical Monthly. I like it so well that I have commended it tn my class and have called special attention to its three hundred paaes devoted to the nervous sys- tem, bringing to date all the knowledge which the last ten years, more than many centuries past, have brought to the use of the profession.— H. D. Didama, M. D., Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine and Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Syracuse University. I consider it the best text-book of medicine with which I am acquainted. The part on nervous 4 diseases is so excellent that I shall recommend the whole book to my class as a text-book on diseases of the nervous system.—Hejhy Hun, M. D., LL. D., Dean of the Faculty and Emeritus Pro- fessor of the Institutes of Medicine, Albany Medi- cal College. Of the German text-books of practice that have been translated into English, Prof. Strum- pell's will probably take the highest rank. Be- tween its covers will be found a very complete and systematic description of all the diseases which are classed under the head of internal medicine. Unlike most of the larger works on practice, we do not find the preliminary discourse on general pathological subjects, an omission which is very much to be commended, because there are at the present day so many special treatises upon patho- logical subjects that there is no longer a necessity for such a section in a work of this kind. While it is impossible to refer to all these particularly, we may call attention to the chapter on Typhoid Fever as being especially valuable, not only on ac- count of the advanced views in regard to the pa- thology of that disease, but also because of the care- ful description of its clinical history and of its treatment. Taken altogether, it is one of the most valuable works on practice that we have, and one which every studious practitioner should have upon his shelves.—New York Medical Journal.