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LECTURES

ON THE

DISEASES OF WOMEN.

LECTURES ON THE

DISEASES OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD.

FOURTH AMERICAN FROM THE FIFTH AND REVISED LONDON EDITION.

In one neat octavo volume of 656 large pages, extra cloth, $4.50; leather, $5.50.

This work may now fairly claim the position of a standard authority and medical classic. Five editions in England, four in America, four in Germany, and translations in French, Danish, Dutch, and Russian, show how fully it has met the wants of the profession by the soundness of its views and the clearness with which they are presented. Few practitioners, indeed, have had the opportunities of observation and experience enjoyed by the author. In his Preface he remarks: "The present edition embodies the results of 1200 recorded cases and of nearly 400 post-mortem examinations, collected from between 30,000 and 40,000 children, who, during the past twenty-six years, have come under my care, either in public or in private practice." The universal favor with which the work has been received shows that the author has made good use of these unusual advantages.

Of all the English writers on the diseases of children, there is no one so entirely satisfactory to us as Dr. West. For years we have held his opinions as judicial, and have regarded him as one of the highest living authorities in the difficult department of medical science in which he is most widely known. His writings are characterized by a sound, practical, common sense, at the same time that they bear the marks of the most laborious study and investigation. We commend it to all as a most reliable adviser on many occasions when many treatises on the same subjects will utterly fail to help us. It is supplied with a very copious general index, and a special index to the formule scattered throughout the work.-Boston Med. and Surg. Journal, April 26, 1866.

Dr. West's volume is, in our opinion, incomparably the best authority upon the maladies of children that the practitioner can consult. Withal, too-a minor matter, truly, but still not one that should be neglected-Dr. West's composition possesses a peculiar charm, beauty, and clearness of expression, thus affording the reader much pleasure, even independent of that which arises from the acquisition of valuable truths. Cincinnati Journal of Medicine, March,

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LECTURES

ON THE

DISEASES OF WOMEN.

LANE LÉBRARY

CHARLES WEST, M. D.,

Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; Examiner in Midwifery at the University
of London; Physician to the Hospital for Sick Children; and formerly
Physician-Accoucheur to St. Bartholomew's and
the Middlesex Hospitals.

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