Some account of the last yellow fever epidemic of British Guiana / Ed. by John Davy.

  • Blair, Daniel.
Date:
1850
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    SOLLY (SAMUED.-THE HUMAN BRAIN : ITS STRUG- TURE, PHYSIOLOGY, and DISEASES; with a description of the Typical Forms of Brain in the Animal Kingdom. Bv Samuel Solly, F.R.S. Senior Assist.-Surgeou to St. Thomas's Hospital, and Lecturer on Clinical Surgery; Senior Surgeon to the Aldersgate Dispensary. New Edition, greatly enlarged. 8vo. with numerous Wood Engravings, 21s. cloth. This very beautiful volume might almost be considered as a new work rathS- than as a new edition of the treatise published by Mr. Solly under tlie same title eleven years since. Its size has been greatly aufrmented ; the whole of its matter has been remodelled ; and the lithographic plates of the original have been superseded by no fewer than 118 wood engravings, many of them of the most elaborate character, and all executed in the first style of art. The work altogether reflects the highest credit on the author, and ought to find a place in the library of every medical practitioner. 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