A practical treatise on the diseases of the respiratory organs : including diseases of the larynx, trachea, lungs and pleura / by Charles J.B. Williams . With numerous additions and notes by Meredith Clymer.

  • Williams, Charles J. B. (Charles James Blasius), 1805-1889.
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1845, ©1844
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Credit: A practical treatise on the diseases of the respiratory organs : including diseases of the larynx, trachea, lungs and pleura / by Charles J.B. Williams . With numerous additions and notes by Meredith Clymer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 LIBRARY OF SURGERY. CHELIUS’S SYSTEM OF SURGERY, A SYSTEM OE SURGERY. By J. M. CHELIUS, Doctor in Medicine and Surgery, Public Professor of General and Ophthalmic Surgery, etc. etc. in the University of Heidelberg. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN, AND ACCOMPANIED WITH ADDITIONAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS, By JOHN F. SOUTH, SURGEON TO ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL. EDITED, WITH REFERENCE TO AMERICAN AUTHORITIES, By GEORGE W. NORRIS, M.D. PuTblisliing in Numbers, at Fifty Cents each. Mae Numbers are now ready: and the whole is expected to be complete by September next, forming Three Large Octavo Volumes. That this work should have passed to six editions in Germany, and have been translated into no less than seven languages, is sufficient proof of its value. It contains what is, perhaps, embraced to an equal extent by no other work on the subject now before the public—a complete System of Surgery, both in its principles and practice. The additions of the translator, Mr. South, are very numerous, bringing the work up to the very day of publication, and embodying whatever may have been omitted by the author respecting English Sur¬ gery; while Dr. Norris will take equal care in representing the state of the Science in America. “Judging from a single number only of this work, we have no hesitation in saying that, if the remaining por¬ tions correspond at all with the first, it will be by far the most complete and scientific System of Surgery in the English language. We have, indeed, seen no work which so nearly comes up to our idea of what such a pro¬ duction should be, both as a practical guide and as a work of reference, as this; and the fact that it has passed through six editions in Germany, and been translated into seven languages, is sufficiently convincing proof of its value. It is methodical and concise, clear and accurate; omitting all minor details and fruitless speculations, it gives us all the information we want in the shortest and simplest form ”—The New York Journal of Medicine. “The scope of Professor Chelius’s Manual is indicated by its title: it professes to treat, systematically, of the science and art of Surgery, but within such compass as to render the work an appropriate introduction and ©ompanion to his lectures. The care, however, which has been bestowed upon its construction, and the labor yyhich its research evinces, would be ill repaid were it confined to this sphere; and we may conscientiously say, that we know of no Manual of Surgery, on the whole, more deserving of public confidence, or more valu¬ able as a guide and refresher to the young practitioner. It is not our intention at present critically to analyze Mr. South’s labors; but we should be guilty of an injustice to him and to our readers if we did not cordially recommend his work as having fair promise of forming, what it is the translator’s ambition it should be, a sound and comprehensive system of Practical Surgery. The notes and text are so intermingled as to render it con¬ tinuously readable, without presenting those abrupt transitions which are so disagreeable in many works simi¬ larly arranged. The faults of omission, &c., at which we have hinted in our comments on the first chapter of our author’s work, (viz. that on ‘Inflammation’) have been amply compensated by the copious and excellent digest of his translator and annotator, who is justly proud of availing himself of the labors of our own coun¬ trymen in this department of pathology, while he gives their due meed of notice and respect to the contributions of our continental brethren. The references which are given to original works have evidently been carefully ©ollated, and will be found of great value to the student and practitioner who may wish for more copious in¬ formation on any particular branch of Surgery; and the practical remarks and illustrations with which the work abounds, are a good guarantee of the translator’s ability to do justice to his task, at the same time that they prove that Mr. South has not failed to avail himself industriously of the large opportunities which his Hos¬ pital appointment has afforded him.”—The British and Foreign Medical Review. “ We will, therefore, content ourselves for the present with directing the attention of the profession to it, as being the most complete'system of Surgery in any language, and one that is of equal utility as a practical guide and as a work of reference. The fact of its having reached six editions in Germany, and its having been trans¬ lated into seven languages,jare more convincing proofs of its value than anything that we can say'. Mr. South has performed his task with much judgment, and has certainly made a most useful addition to the medical lite¬ rature of this country by rendering Chelius’s work into English.”—The Lancet. “This work has long been the chief text-book on Surgery in the principal schools of Germany, and the pub¬ lication of five editions of it in the original and of translations into no less than eight foreign languages, show the high estimation in which it is held. As a systematic work oil Surgery it has merits of a high order. It is methodical and concise—and on the whole clear and accurate. The most necessary information is conveyed in the shortest and simplest form. Minor details and fruitless speculations are avoided. It is, in fact, essen¬ tially a practical book. This work was first published nearly twenty years ago, and its solid and permanent reputation has no doubt led Mr. South to undertake the present translation of the latest edition of it, which, we are informed, is still passing through the press in Germany. We should have felt at a loss to select any one better qualified for the task than the translaior of Otto’s Compendium of Human and Comparative Pathological Anatomy—a surgeon to a large hospital, whose industry and opportunities have enabled him to keep pace with the improvements of his time.”—The Medico-Chirurgical Review. “Although Great Britain can boast of some of the most skilful surgeons, both among her past and Her present professors of that branch of medical science, no work professing to be a complete system of Surgery has been published in the British dominions since that of Benjamin Bell, now more than half a century old. “This omission in English medical literature is fully and saiisfactorily supplied by the translation of Professor Chelius’s System of Surgery by a gentleman excellently fitted for the task, both by his extensive reading, and the opportunities of practical experience which he has enjoyed for years as surgeon to one of our largest me¬ tropolitan hospitals. The fact of Professor Chelius’s work having been translated into seven languages is suf¬ ficient proof of the estimation in which it is held by our continental brethren, and the English edition, now in ©ourse of publication, loses none of the value of the original from the treatment received at the hands of its translator. The notes and additions of Professor South are numerous, and contain the opinions resulting from his vast experience, and from that of his colleague. “We are free to confess, prejudiced though perhaps we are, in favor of the English practice of surgery, that this work is one of great value, and one which everyr practitioner and advanced student should possess.’?-— The Medical Times.