Swallow Barn, or A sojourn in the Old Dominion

“Mr. Bell has evidently endeavored to construct a work of reference for the
practitioner, and a text-book for the student, containing a `plain and practical
digest of the information at present possessed on the subject, and results of the
author's own investigations and experience.”' * * * “We must now take leave
of Mr. Bell, whose work we have no doubt will become a class-book on the important
subject of dental surgery.”

—Medico-Chirurgical Review.

“We have no hesitation in pronouncing it to be the best treatise in the English
language.”

—North American Medical and Surgical Journal, No. 19.

AMERICAN DISPENSATORY. Ninth Edition, improved
and greatly enlarged. By John Redman Coxe, M. D. Professor
of Materia Medica and Pharmacy in the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1 vol. 8vo.

* * * This new edition has been arranged with special reference to the
recent Pharmacopœias, published in Philadelphia and New-York.

ELLIS' MEDICAL FORMULARY. The Medical Formulary,
being a collection of prescriptions derived from the writings
and practice of many of the most eminent Physicians in America
and Europe. By Benjamin Ellis, M. D. 3d. edition.
With Additions.

“We would especially recommend it to our brethren in distant parts of the
country, whose insulated situations may prevent them from having access to the
many authorities which have been consulted in arranging the materials for this
work.”

—Phil. Med. and Phys. Journal.

MANUAL of MATERIA MEDICA and PHARMACY. By
H. M. Edwards, M. D. and P. Vavasseur, M. D. comprising
a concise Description of the Articles used in Medicine; their
Physical and Chemical Properties; the Botanical Characters of
the Medicinal Plants; the Formulæ for the Principal Officinal
Preparations of the American, Parisian, Dublin, &c. Pharmacopœias;
with Observations on the proper Mode of combining
and administering Remedies. Translated from the French,
with numerous Additions and Corrections, and adapted to the
Practice of Medicine and to the Art of Pharmacy in the United
States. By Joseph Togno, M. D. Member of the Philadelphia
Medical Society, and E. Durand, Member of the Philadelphia
College of Pharmacy.

“It contains all the pharmaceutical information that the physician can desire,
and in addition, a larger mass of information, in relation to the properties, &c.
of the different articles and preparations employed in medicine, than any of the
dispensatories, and we think will entirely supersede all these publications in the
library of the physician.”

—Am. Journ. of the Medical Sciences.

MEMOIR on the TREATMENT of VENEREAL DISEASES
without MERCURY, employed at the Military Hospital of
the Val-de-Grace. Translated from the French of H. M. J.
Desruelles, M. D. &c. To which are added, Observations by
G. J. Guthrie, Esq. and various documents, showing the results
of this Mode of Treatment, in Great Britain, France, Germany,
and America. 1 vol. 8vo.

University of Virginia Library

MEDICINE.