BRIGHT'S FAMILY PRACTICE. A PLAIN SYSTEM OP MEDICAL PRACTICE, FOR THE USE OF FAMILIES. By J. W. BRIGHT, M. D. THIS work embraces all the diseases of MEN, WOMEN, and CHILDREN, and plain system of MIDWIFERY; and contains the experience of the Author, in more than thirty years extensive practice of Medicine, and is the only work now before the public which contains all the New and Approved Remedies, found in the standard works and medical periodicals in Europe and America, together with the experience and approved practice of the best anthors, upon which the successful treatment of the present forms of disease so much depends. It is the only work now before the public, containing a full description of the new, as well as the old diseases of the United States. The Symptoms of each disease, in all its stages, are so minutely described, and the directions for giving and working off the medicines are so plain, that no one can fail to follow them; the remedies all being put down in plain English, in their appropriate places. It also contains a Family Materia Medica, with Receipts for preparing all the Family Medicines in common use, with directions how to use them, and about thirty plates, mostly of medicinal plants, with their description, medical properties, and uses. Recipes for preparing Tooth Powders, Cologne Waters, and Medicines for Cleansing and Beautifying the Skin, and many other recipes, useful to Farmers and Mechanics: recipes for preparing and using the remedies for the cure of the Poisons of Arsenic, Copper, Lead. Mercury, Opium, Morphine, Gallic and Prussic Acids; also, directions for preparing a variety of Diet for the Sick. The work is got up in the most fashionable style, with marble edges, and bound in fine leather, with spring back, especially for the use of families. The whole is contained in 941 royal octavo pages, and will be delivered to subscribers at Five Dollars per copy. Recommendations from the Medical Faculty of the University of Louisville. LOUISVILLE. August, 1847. Dear Sir-Having bestowed on an attentive examination of your "FAMILY PRAC TICE" all the leisure I can command, I am of the opinion that, with the addition of the word WELL, which I shall take the liberty of making, I cannot better characterize it than you yourself have done, in your very modest an 1 r.ppropriate title-page, "A Plain System of Medical Practice, WELL adapted to the use of Families." The work appears to me to be thus adapted, for the following reasons: 1. The matter it contains is sound and judicions, and sufficiently full and diversified for all the cases of disease in which families thr seives should attempt to employ it. When more is needed, recourse should be had to professional aid. 2. The descriptions of a'seases are generally correct, and their changes and stages well marked; and the style of the work is to simple and perspicuous, that no one at all acquainted with the English conposion can misapprehend its meaning. 3. The compass of the work eabracing as it does every form of disease which an American Physician, in full practice, can expect to encounter in a lifetime, is cuficiently ample. Wishing it, therefore, the reception and circulation, to which it appears to me to be entitled, I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, CH. CALDWELL, M. D., Prefessor of the Institutes of Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence. P.S Were it not that comparisons are apt to be held exceptionable, I would not hesitate to say, that I consider your "FAMILY PRACTICE" the most valuable work of the sort of which I have any knowledge. C. C. 1 have examined for Bright FAMILY PRACTICE." and fee) assured that it is, on the whore, well adapted to the purpose for which it is written * ettently useful. August. 1847 I think the work is calentinted I concur in the estimate expressed above by Dr Groan. 11 MILLER, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children 1 have examined “BRIGHT'S FAMILY PRACTICE" with some care, and find that it I believe the work is cxiculed to 1 plainly written, and contains much that is valuable J. COBB M D.. Professor of Anatomy. do much good I have examined Dr Bright's "FAMILY PRACTICE. and find it what it purports to be a plain system of Medical Practice-which I can conscientiously recommend to f L P. YANDELL, M D, Professor of Physiology families From Practising Physicians in Louisville. I have examined with care Dr Bright' FAMILY PRACTICE." and find it a valuable It is plain and comprehenave, and work well suited to the use of Planters and Families JC. GUNN, M. D the treatment conformable to the latest and most approved practics, and it affords me much pleasure to recommend it to the public I have examined “ BRIGHT'S FAMILY PRACTICE" The work is not only the result WC GALT. M D of long experience, but a very judicious selection of the latest and most approved Medicul authors, and will, no doubt, be of great service to familira. C PIRTLE, M. D. I have examined “BRIGHT'S FAMILY PRACTICE," and do most unhesitatingly recommend it as a plain, practical work-useful to families. I have examined "BRIGHT'S FAMILY PRACTICE,' and take recommending it as a valuable work, suitable to the use of Families Medicine fifteen years in Mississippi and Louisiana. I view this work as the diseases of that region than any work of the kind I have ever seen. Having practised great piessure in better adapted to RICHARD ANGEL. M. D. We have examined Dr. Bright's "FAMILY PRACTICE." and feel no hesitation in recommending it to the public, as a book containing a variety of useful and valuable information It is entirely practical in its designs all technicalities are avoided, so MA to render the author's meaning clear and plain to the unprofessional reader, for whom it is more particularly intended thau for the profession, though the latter, and particularly the medical student. might increase his store of practical knowledge by a careful perusa! of its pages. Dr Bright's instruments for the application of caustic to the mouth of the U. E EWING, M. D u erus are ingenious, and no doubt will save the practitioner much trouble, said the patient a great deal of unnecessary pain. W. T. H WINLOCK, M D Louisville, June, 1847. I have examined “ BRIGHT'S FAMILY PRACTICE." and find in it plain and imporant practical principles in medicine, well adap ed to the use of families. WM. A. McDOWELL. M D. I have examined “BRIGHT'S FAMILY PRACTICE.” and take pleasure in recommenéJ. W. KNIGHT, M. D. ing it to all persons as a valuable work-in particular to families in the country. Louisville, June, 1847. We have examined the medical work written by JW Bright, and take pleasure lu recommending it to the public, as a work well calculated for the use of families Louisville, June 18, 1847 JOHN M TALBOT. M. D. DR. BRIGHT: Dear Sir-I have looked into your work at such momenta na my argent labors for the season would afford me. It appears to be a work of great research, and in It is my wish that the reading public may be most thoB DUDLÉT. M. D, doubtless one of high merit roughly satisfied of the high appreciation put upon it. Prof of Surgery in Transylvania University From Physicans in Memphis. After a careful examination of Dr Bright's FAMILY PRACTICE," I have no hesitation iù sazing, that the prac ical precep - recommended by the Author are better adapted to the treatment of disease, as it prevails at the Southwes, than any other work of a sim har character, with which I am acquainted GEO. R GRANT. MD. Professor of Tueory and Practice of Medicine in the Memphis Medical College. From the cursory examination which have been enabled to make of Dr. Bright's work on the Practice of Pltvsic, I have no hesi'ation in saying, that it is the best production of its kind now published. E. F. WATKINS, M. D. Memphis, Sep. 1. 1847. We have examined Dr. Bright's “PLAIN SYSTEM OF MEDICAL PRACTICE." and are sa isted that i is better uculated for a safe guide to Families-especially these remore ( from a seien iñc physician-than any o her work on Domestic Practice We can therefore cheerfull, recommend it as a plain and valuable work; in the main, well adapted to the purposes designed LEWIS SULANKS, M. D JNO R. FRAYSER, M D. Mempais, Sept. 1, 1947. From Physicians in Illinois Having been requested to examine · BRIGHT'S FAMILY PRACTICE.“ I have satisfied myself that it is superior to any work of the kind which has me my novice, both in its descrip ion of diseases and principles of "ea uent. HENRY WING, M D.. March 6. 1848. Prof. of Mat. Med., in Jacksonville Med-Coll., Ill TO THE PUBLIC.--Having examined Dr. Bright ́s · FAMILY PRACTICE OF MEDICINE" a ten ively, I have no hesitation in sa ing, that i is the best work of the kind new extant, in the English language, and is a fmirably adapted to the wants of western people. Lexing on. Morgan Co., I., Maren 8, 1548. CIL KNIGHT, MI D. BRIGHT'S PRACTICE EVERY IS EMPHATICALLY THE BOOK FOR AGENTS WANTED in every county of each State Very larg profits are allowed, and energetic me a have made from $500 to $2.0°) per anno . by selling BRIGHTS PRACTICE A Cash Capital of Eighty or One Hundred Dollars is requisite. is the Publishers sell exclusively for cash, to avoid charging an extra profit on Those who pay, to make up for losses from those who do not pay Consequently in no case wil books be forwarded WITHOUT THE MONEY IN HAND. Persons wishing to have an agency, wil address the Publishers. CF ANY person remitting Fire Dollars to the subscribers shall receive copy by mail, postage paid, to any part of the United States. MORTON & GRISWOLD. Publishers. LOUISVILLE, KY EDITION OF GOODRICH'S SCHOOL READER. Lhe following are supposed to be some of the peculiar excellencies of this Series, as a whole: 1. Completeness, embracing all that is required by the pupil from the Alphabet to the highest degree of accomplishment in the art of reading. 2. Comprehensiveness,—including all the approved helps and facilities both for teacher and learner. 3. Progression, step by step in an easy path, without confusion, breaks, or other impediments. profusion, in order to interest and excite the young mind, and develop its perceptive faculties. 7. Mechanical Execution-the paper being white and thick, the type large and clear, and the binding neat and substantial. 8. Cheapness-being sold at lower prices than works of interior authors, and less merit. 9. Rhetorical Exercises-afford4. Simplicity and manliness of sentiment, which constitute the charining most copious practical lessons in of Mr. Goodrich's style, acknowledged enunciation, articulation, inflection, emwherever the English language is read.phasis, and accent. 5. Originality, not a line having been borrowed from any other series; while every other reader of late date has taken more or less, and generally without acknowledgment, from them or other compositions by the same author. 6. The Illustrations, of the most beautiful character, introduced with 10 Moral Tendency-inculcating by familiar precepts and pleasing illus trations, a sense of justice, a feeling of kindly charity, a reverence for religion, a regard for the rights, feelings, interests and characters of others, a love of the works of nature, and a reverent affection for their beneficent Author. Goodrich's First School Reader. 1. It has sixty-nine beautiful engrav ings of simple but very interesting subjects 2. It begins with very short words, in very short sentences, accompanying In this an appropriate engraving. respect the author has pursued the plain originally used by hiin many years since in "Peter Parley's Primer," and subquently limited and copied by other books. 3. It contains eighteen lessons in articalation, comprising all the vowel sounds, based on the principle of teaching one thing only at a time, and making the pupil perfect in that oue thing, by frequent repetition 4. Preceding each veading lesson is A spelling exercise, containing the more difficult words. reasons. 5. In the lessons, Polysyllables are neither accented nor divided, for several 1. Words cannot be divided without often misleading. 2. The papil should learn to read words as he will afterwards meet with them in other books. This last reason applies to the marks sometimes used to distinguish the various sounds of the vowels. 6. 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These may be multiplied by the judicious teacher. 7. A familiar explanation is given of punctuation, articulation, emphasis. &c. 8 Its lessons caunot be surpassed by any in the language, in point of adaptation to the wants of young learners. 9. The type is large and very clear, while by a compact arrangement, many new lessons have been inserted. GOODRICH'S THIRD SCHOOL READER, 218 pages, 18mo. 1. This work, originally published as the Second Reader, having been revised and enlarged, is now called the "Third Reader." 2. It contains a great variety of beautiful engravings. 3. The lessons are progressive, carrying the learner onward. step by step. 4. It contains lessons on articulation. arranged upon the principle of teaching one thing at a time, and of continual repetition. | 6. Following each lesson are ques tions to excite and interest the pupil. 7. 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An exercise in definitions precedes each lesson, explaining the meaning of the words as used in the context. 4. Rules for Reading are prefixed to the book. These rules are simple, intelligible, and practical, and their eth ciency ensured by a peculiar system of questions attached to the lessons. 5. It is abundantly illustrated with beautiful engravings. 6. Errors of pronunciation are pointed out, and questions asked in connexion with each lesson. 7 Appended to many of the lessons are remarks of an explanatory or critical character. 8. It contains exercises in Elocution of a most useful and practical kind. 9. For simplicity, interest, animation, pure moral tendency, and beauty of style and sentiment, a more delightful body of reading lessons was never before brought together, |