Part 19

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NIGHTS-AT-MESS.

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LIFE OF A SOLDIER BY A FIELD-OFFICER.

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IN PREPARATION,

THE GIFT; A CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S PRESENT, FOR 1836.

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LIST OF THE PLATES.

A Portrait of Miss Kemble, engraved by _Cheney_. Smuggler's Repose, " _Tucker_. The Orphans, " _Welch_. Soliciting a Note, " _Ellis_. John Anderson, my Jo! " _Lawson_. Prawn Fishers, " _Graham_. Death of the Stag, " _Tucker_. Mirkwood Mere, " _Graham_. A Portrait, " _Illman_.

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TRAITS AND STORIES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY.

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MAKANNA; OR, THE LAND OF THE SAVAGE.

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WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

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A SUBALTERN IN AMERICA;

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SELECT SPEECHES OF JOHN SERGEANT, OF PENNSYLVANIA.

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THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK.

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FIVE NIGHTS OF ST. ALBANS.

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TWO HUNDRED RECEIPTS IN DOMESTIC FRENCH COOKERY.

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SELECT MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL TRANSACTIONS.

A collection of the most valuable Memoirs read to the Medico-Chirurgical Societies of London and Edinburgh; the Association of Fellows and Licentiates of the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland; the Royal Academy of Medicine of Paris; the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh; the Royal Academy of Turin; the Medical and Anatomical Societies of Paris, &c. &c. &c.

Edited by ISAAC HAYS, M. D.

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A PRACTICAL COMPENDIUM OF MIDWIFERY:

Being the course of Lectures on Midwifery, and on the Diseases of Women and Infants, delivered at St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

By the late ROBERT GOOCH, M. D.

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AN ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DISEASES PECULIAR TO WOMEN;

BY ROBERT GOOCH, M. D.

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TATE ON HYSTERIA. A TREATISE ON "HYSTERIA."

BY GEORGE TATE, M. D.

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_Extract of a Letter from_ EDWARD H. COURTENAY, _Professor of Mathematics_ in _the University of Pennsylvania_.

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_BOLMAR'S LEVIZAC._

A THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL GRAMMAR OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE;

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BY M. DE LEVIZAC.

With numerous corrections and improvements, and with the addition of a complete treatise on the _Genders of French Nouns_; as also with the addition of all the French Verbs, both regular and irregular, conjugated affirmatively, negatively, and interrogatively.

BY A. BOLMAR, Author of "KEY TO TELEMAQUE," "PHRASES," &c. &c.

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_TEALE ON NEURALGIC DISEASES._

A TREATISE ON NEURALGIC DISEASES,

DEPENDENT UPON IRRITATION OF THE SPINAL MARROW AND GANGLIA OF THE SYMPATHETIC NERVE.

BY THOMAS PRIDGIN TEALE,

_Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburg, Senior Surgeon to the Leeds Public Dispensary._

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FORMULARY FOR THE PREPARATION AND EMPLOYMENT OF SEVERAL NEW REMEDIES.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF M. MAGENDIE.

With an Appendix containing the experience of the British Practitioners, with many of the new remedies.

BY JOSEPH HOULTON, M.D.

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A TREATISE ON LESSER SURGERY; OR THE MINOR SURGICAL OPERATIONS.

BY BOURGERY, D. M. P. Author of "A Complete Treatise on Human Anatomy, comprising Operative Medicine." Translated from the French, with notes and an Appendix; by WILLIAM C. ROBERTS AND JAS. B. KISSAM.

Copy of a letter from WILLIAM GIBSON, M. D. Professor of Surgery in the University of Pennsylvania.

_Philadelphia, Nov. 5th_, 1833.

It gives me pleasure to say that the elementary work on Surgery, by M. Bourgery, and now under translation by Drs. Roberts and Kissam of New York, appears to me _well calculated for the use of students_. So far as I can judge from examination of a small portion of the English text, justice has been done by the translators to the author of the work.

W. GIBSON, M. D. _Professor of Surgery in the University of Pennsylvania_.

Copy of a letter from GEORGE M'CLELLEN, M. D. Professor of Surgery in the Jefferson Medical College.

_Philadelphia, Nov 6th, 1833._

Dear Sirs,

I have examined Bourgery's manual, or work on Lesser Surgery, and am of opinion that it is an _excellent compend_, which contains a great deal of matter that will be useful to students. The translation which you are about to make, will deserve a large edition, and I have no doubt will meet with a ready sale.

Yours truly, GEO. M'CLELLAN. DRS. ROBERTS AND KISSAM.

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

1. Passages in italics are surrounded by _underscores_.

2. Obvious errors in punctuation have been silently corrected.

3. The original text includes Greek characters. For this text version these letters have been replaced with transliterations.

4. Certain words use oe ligature in the original.

5. Other than the corrections listed above, printer's inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, hyphenation, and ligature usage have been retained.