Principles of surgery

Of the first part of the first edition of this work an account is given in the thirty-seventh volume of this Journal. From the notice there given, which embraces the contents of the first fourteen chapters, some idea may be formed of the nature of the work, and of the manner in which the different subjects are treated. Several circumstances, and especially the numerous claims from other publications, prevented us from completing the account then given by a notice of the contents of the second part of the work of Mr Syme. We willingly, therefore, embrace the present opportunity, afforded by the appearance of a new edition, to inform the practitioners and students of surgery of the general merits of this treatise, and its claims on their atten-