A DICTIONARY OF

PRACTICAL MEDICINE:

COMPRISING

General Pathology, the Nature and Treatment of Diseases, Morbid Structures, and the Disorders especially incidental to Climates, to the Sex, and to the different Epochs of Life, with numerous approved Formula of the Medicines recommended.

BY JAMES COPLAND, M.D.,

Consulting Physician to Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital; Senior Physician to the Royal Infirmary for Children; Member of the Royal College of Physicians, London; of the Medical and Chirurgical Societies of London and Berlin, &c.

THIS work is now in course of publication in Parts, of which six have appeared. It will contain, in an abstract and condensed, yet comprehensive, form, the opinions and practice of the most experienced writers, British and Foreign, so digested and wrought up with the results of the Author's practice, that the Student and Young Practitioner will not be bewildered in the diversity of the opinions and facts adduced for their instruction, but be guided in the difficult path on which they have entered, and enabled, with a due exercise of their powers of observation and discrimination, to arrive at just conclusions and successful practical results. To the experienced Practitioner, also, the Work will present a diversified range of opinions, methods of cure, and authorities, which his matured judgment will enable him to apply, in an appropriate manner, to particular cases. It will also comprise the complications and modified states of Disease, which are even more frequently met with in practice, than those specific forms too often described by Nosologists as constant and unvarying types, to which morbid actions, occurring under a great variety of circumstances, can never closely adhere. When discussing the methods of Cure, the Author has given Formulæ of the Medicines recommended, in the most efficient and approved forms of combination. He has likewise furnished numerous References to the best Works and Treatises on the topics discussed in each article.

In conclusion, the Work will contain the results of many years of laborious study and research, and of twenty years' extensive and diversified experience.

"We cannot allow this opportunity to pass without bearing testimony to the extraordinary merits of the publication, and recommending it, in the strongest terms, to the attention of our readers. Considered as the production of an individual, this work is one of the most extraordinary that has ever appeared, for its size, comprehensiveness, accuracy, and learning. It must remain an imperishable monument of his talents, learning, and industry."-BRITISh and Foreign MEDICAL REVIEW.

"A work displaying such extraordinary extent of reading, and such deep and comprehensive reflection, as to demand a place in the library of every medical man."-DR. ELLIOTSON.

"Though evincing learning of the highest kind, it is so perspicuous throughout, is so devoid of technicalities, and abounds so much in the most interesting matters, admirably arranged, that the well-informed reader and man of science will derive the soundest information from its pages-information both philosophical and practical, derived from the most approved sources in the most intellectual quarters of the globe, and from the author's own observations and reflections; and accumulated to an extent truly surprising."-LITERARY GAZETTE. "The immense quantity of matter which is here compressed into a small space, must render the work a very popular one, more especially for those practitioners who reside in the country or travel abroad, on account of the facility of reference, and the portability of the Dictionary. The labour is immense, and will stamp the author as a man of great research and sound judgment."-MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL REVIEW.

A DICTIONARY OF

SCIENCE, LITERATURE, & ART.

THIS work will contain explanations of most terms used in conversation and in scientific and literary discussions, with short abstracts of the principles of the most popular and important departments of Science and Art, and notices of their rise, progress, and present state. It is intended, in fact, that it should serve as a convenient Manual, or Reference Book, for all descriptions of persons. In pursuance of this object, the greatest pains have been taken to insure its accuracy, and to render it as complete and instructive as its limits will admit; and it is confidently expected that it will be found useful, not merely to general readers and gentlemen engaged in the ordinary business of life, but to those having access and leisure to refer to more extensive depositories of human knowledge.

PROFESSOR BRANDE

Is the Editor of this work, and undertakes the department of Chemistry, and all branches of Natural Philosophy connected with it. The following Gentlemen are also engaged in the work :

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T. GALLOWAY, Esq. in Astronomy, Mechanics, and all branches of Physics dependent on Mathematical Principles; - JOSEPH GWILT, Esq. in Architecture, Music, and the Fine Arts; - DR. LINDLEY, in Botany; -J. C. LOUDON, Esq. in Agriculture and Gardening ;-J. R. M'CULLOCH, Esq. in Political Economy; and the same gentleman and JOSEPH CAUVIN, Esq. in General Literature; - HERMAN MERIVALE, Esq. in Law;— RD. OWEN, Esq. in Comparative Anatomy and General Zoology.

AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF

ARCHITECTURE,

HISTORICAL, THEORETICAL, AND PRACTICAL.

Illustrated by several hundred Engravings on Wood, by Branston, from drawings of the most celebrated examples of Ancient and Modern Buildings, and Diagrams explanatory of the Theory and Practice of Modern Art. With an extensive Glossary of Terms.

BY JOSEPH GWILT, F.S.A.

THIS work is intended to form a classical and complete body of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, and Practical, presented in such a form as will be most useful to the Student, and most interesting to every class of readers.

AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF

CIVIL ENGINEERING,

HISTORICAL, THEORETICAL, AND PRACTICAL.

BY EDWARD CRESY, F.A.S. C.E.

Illustrated by several hundred Engravings on Wood, explanatory of the Principles, Machinery, and Constructions which come under the direction of the Civil Engineer.

**Several other Volumes are in active preparation.

WILSON AND OGILVY,

57, SKINNER STREET.

NEW CATALOGUE,

WITH

THREE HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS OF APPARATUS,

ILLUSTRATIVE OF

CHEMISTRY, PNEUMATICS, FRICTIONAL & VOLTAIC ELECTRICITY, ELECTRO MAGNETISM, OPTICS, &c. &c.

LABORATORIES FITTED UP ON A LARGE OR SMALL SCALE.

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1840.

Entered at Stationers' Hall.

E. PALMER, having at considerable expense and trouble completed a new Catalogue, with 300 engravings of Chemical, Philosophical, and Optical Instruments, begs to submit it to his Friends and the Public, trusting, that as the drawings have been made from the instruments themselves, it will be found of great assistance to those residing in the country, or abroad, who may favor him with their orders: at the same time he begs to return his grateful acknowledgments to those who have hitherto favored his establishment with their support; also to the Professors of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy, not only for their individual assistance, but for their kind recommendations; and he trusts, that by continuing to manufacture every article of the best workmanship, and on moderate terms, suitable for the Lecture Table or private investigations, to merit a continuance of their patronage.

The instruments being made upon the premises, enables him, in many instances to simplify their construction, in order to suit, not only the scientific, but likewise the mere tyro in science.

To Schoolmasters and those engaged in the education of youth he begs to submit his Catalogue, and to solicit a continuation of their favors.

Parents and guardians of youth, who feel desirous of promoting a taste for Chemistry and Natural Philosophy in the minds of the young, from seeing with what rapid strides those sciences are now advancing, and how necessary their acquaintance is to all, being so extensively employed in the arts and manufactures, will find nothing promote their wishes nor their children's pleasure more, than in selecting for their young friends an assortment of apparatus, whereby they may be able to follow up practically those experiments which they have seen at lectures, and read in the different introductory works to science.