A System of Medicine by Many Writers

Abstract

PROF. CLIFFORD ALLBUTT is to be congratulated upon having completed what must have been a Herculean task. In a science which changes with the velocity of medicine, the time consumed in the appearance of a work is a very important factor. It is quite conceivable that during the period that must necessarily elapse between the first and the last volume of so monumental a work some discovery in medicine, or the cognate sciences of transcen dental importance, might occur. Such a discovery might affect equally profoundly both the written and unwritten volumes. A system thus astride an epoch-making advance in the subject-matter of its theme might bring the editor into serious embarrassment. In this respect the lot of the present system has fallen in pleasant places. It has been launched into the tide of medical literature without any such contretemps, and the first volume may be considered, from the practical standpoint, as much up-to-date as the last.

A System of Medicine by Many Writers.

Edited by Thomas Clifford Allbutt Vol. v. Pp. xiv + 1056. 71 illustrations; 7 charts; 3 plates. Vol. vi. Pp. xi + 944. 44 illustrations; 3 plates; 2 tables. Vol. vii. Pp. xii + 937. 34 illustrations; 3 plates. Vol. viii. Pp. xii + 998. 16 illustrations; 3 plates. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1898–1899.)