Commentaries on the Surgery of the War in Portugal, Spain, France, and the Netherlands / from the battle of Roliça, in 1808, to that of Waterloo, in 1815; with additions relating to those in the Crimea in 1854-55, showing the improvements made during and since that period in the great art and science of surgery on all the subjects to which they relate.

by G. J. Guthrie

Wood’s Therapeutics.

A Treatise on Therapeutics and Pharmacology, or Materia Medica. By Geo. B. Wood, M.D., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, Senior Physician of the Pennsylvania Hospital, one of the authors of the United States Dispensatory, author of a Treatise on the Practice of Medicine, etc. etc. Two vols. 8vo. $7.00.

In his preface Dr. Wood gives the following account of his opportunities for acquiring knowledge and forming just views on the subjects embraced in this treatise:—

“Almost from the commencement of his professional life the author has given peculiar attention to this branch of medical knowledge. For a period of about thirty years, before 1850, when he was transferred to the professorship which he now occupies, he was engaged in teaching materia medica, first as a private lecturer, and afterwards successively in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and the University of Pennsylvania. His position, therefore, rendered constant investigations into the properties, effects, and uses of remedies necessary in order at once to do justice to his pupils and avoid discredit to himself. Most of those whom he now addresses are probably aware that he is one of the authors of the United States Dispensatory. To provide the original materials for his portion of that work, and to gather from time to time the knowledge requisite for its maintenance upon a level with the progressive condition of medical science, unremitting diligence was essential in prosecuting inquiry and investigation in the whole field of pharmacology. In addition to the ordinary professional opportunities, he has for about twenty years held the office of one of the physicians of the Pennsylvania Hospital, which has given him facilities for testing the value of remedies greater than any amount of private practice could afford. Few persons have had greater advantages or stronger inducements than himself for acquiring the knowledge requisite for the production of a work of this kind.”