"Professor Lusk's book presents the art of midwifery with all that modern science or earlier learning has contributed to it."-Medical Record, New York.

"This book bears evidence on every page of being the result of patient and laborious research and great personal experience, united and harmonized by the true critical or scientific spirit, and we are convinced that the book will raise the general standard of obstetric knowledge both in his own country and in this. Whether for the student obliged to learn the theoretical part of midwifery, or for the busy practitioner seeking aid in the face of practical difficulties, it is, in our opinion, the best modern work on midwifery in the English language."-Dublin Journal of Medical Science.

"Dr. Lusk's style is clear, generally concise, and he has succeeded in putting in less than seven hundred pages the best exposition in the English language of obstetric science and art. The book will prove invaluable alike to the student and the practitioner.”—American Practitioner.

"Dr. Lusk's work is so comprehensive in design and so elaborate in execution that it must be recognized as having a status peculiarly its own among the textbooks of midwifery in the English language."-New York Medical Journal.

"The work is, perhaps, better adapted to the wants of the student as a text-book, and to the practitioner as a work of reference, than any other one publication on

the subject. It contains about all that is known of the ars obstetrica, and must add greatly to both the fame and fortune of the distinguished author."-Medical Herald, Louisville.

"Dr. Lusk's book is eminently viable. It can not fail to live and obtain the honor of a second, a third, and nobody can foretell how many editions. It is the mature product of great industry and acute observation. It is by far the most learned and most complete exposition of the science and art of obstetrics written in the English language. It is a book so rich in scientific and practical information, that nobody practicing obstetrics ought to deprive himself of the advantage he is sure to gain from a frequent recourse to its pages."American Journal of Obstetrics.

"It is a pleasure to read such a book as that which Dr. Lusk has prepared; everything pertaining to the important subject of obstetrics is discussed in a masterly and captivating manner. We recommend the book as an excellent one, and feel confident that those who read it will be amply repaid."-Obstetric Gazette, Cincinnati.

"To consider the work in detail would merely involve us in a reiteration of the high opinion we have already expressed of it. What Spiegelberg has done for Germany, Lusk, imitating him but not copying him, has done for English readers, and we feel sure that in this country, as in America, the work will meet with a very extensive approval."-Edinburgh Medical Journal.

rics is gone over in a most systematic "The whole range of modern obstetmanner, without indulging in the discussion of useless theories or controversies. The style is clear, concise, compact, and pleasing. The illustrations are abundant, excellently executed, remarkably accurate in outline and detail, and, to most of our American readers, entirely fresh."-Cincinnati Lancet and Clinic.

"The reviewer too often finds it a difficult task to discover points to praise, in order that his criticisms may not seem one-sided and unjust. These lectures, however, place him upon the other horn of the dilemma, viz., to find somewhat to criticise severely enough to clear himself of the charge of indiscriminating laudation. Of course, the author upholds some views which conflict with other authorities, but be substantiates them by the most powerful of arguments, viz., a large experience, the results of which are enunciated by one who elsewhere shows that he can appreciate, and accord the due value to, the work

and experience of others."-Archives of

Medicine.

"The present is a new volume rather than a new edition. Both its size and material are vastly beyond its predcessor. The same scholarly method, the same calm, convincing statement, the same wise, carefully matured counsel, pervade every paragraph. The discomfort and dangers of the diseases of the rectum call for greater consideration than they usually receive at the hands of the profession." Detroit Lancet.

"These lectures are twelve in number, and may be taken as an excellent epitome of our present knowledge of the diseases of the parts in question. The work is full of practical matter, but it owes not a little of its value to the original thought, labor, and suggestions as to the treatment of disease, which always characterize the productions of the pen of Dr. Van Buren."Philadelphia Medical Times.

"Taken as a whole, the book is one of the most complete and reliable ones extant. It is certainly the best of any similar work from an American author. It is handsomely bound and illustrated, and should be in the hands of every practitioner and student of medicine."-Louisville Medical Herald.

"The most attractive feature of the work is the plain, common-sense manner in which each subject is treated. The auther has laid down instructions for the treatment, medicinal and operative, of rectal diseases in so clear and lucid style as that any practitioner is enabled to follow it. The large and successful experience of the distinguished author in this class of diseases is sufficient of itself to warrant the high character of the book."-Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery.

We have thus briefly tried to give the reader an idea of the scope of this work and the work is a good oneas good as either Allingham's or Curling's, with which it will inevitably be compared. Indeed, we should have been greatly surprised if any work from the pen of Dr. Van Buren had not been a good one; and we have to thank him that for the first time we have an American text-book on this subject which equals those that have so long been standards."-New York Medical Journal.

"Mere praise of a book like this would be superfluous-almost impertinent. The author is well known to the profession as one of our most accomplished surgeons and ablest scientific men. Much is expected of him in a book like the one before us, and those who read it will not be disappointed. It will, indeed, be widely read, and, in a short time, take its place as the standard American authority."-St. Louis Courier of Medicine.

"The work is enriched with twentyseven illustrations and a complete index. It is perhaps no exaggeration to say that no single work on the same subject has yet appeared in this or any foreign country, which is superior to it. Dr. Van Buren's great reputation alone is a guarantee of its excellence; and it is evident that he has spared no pains in revising and enlarging the present edition."