The Peninsular Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences (Volume 1) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854. Excerpt: ... A. B. Wood, of Ann Arbor, has, we believe, by far the most extensive assortment of Medical Books in the State. He attends to orders from abroad promptly, and will procure, at the shortest notice, from New York, Boston or Philadelphia, any rare or new work which may be ordered, if it is not already on his shelvos. Maynards', of Ann Arbor, and Higby & Dickinson, of Detroit, have arrangements to furnish Surgical Instruments of any kind or description to order. New Truss. So many Trusses have been invented that new ones meet with but little favor, but we somotimes meet those which combine, in a marked manner, various excellences. Wo have seen one lately composed of an elastic band and a spriug pad, which, simple as its construction appears, has been worn with signal relief by several patients in this place. It was invented by Mr. Silas Pratt, who has patented it, and intends to bring it effectually before the public. We think it will work its way to favor, and we make these remarks because we beliovo that men possessing mechanical tact and ingenuity should always be enoouraged to exert their skill in producing instruments to answer the demands of the Surgeon. NOTICES OF WORKS RECEIVED..1 Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children. By Francis Condie, M.D., Sect. Coll. Physicians. Phil: To call the attention of the medical fraternity to a new edition of this American medical classic seems almost a work of superrogation. The name of Dr. Condie is too well known and his influence too generally felt and acknowledged in the department of Pathology to which the present work refers to require other than a very brief notice of this new edition. Preserving in the arrrangement and classification of subjects the same order as in former editions, he has embodied in th...