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Part I.—Physiology, Pathology, and Therapeutics. By Dr. Ryan. Part I1.—Practice of Medicine

1. Fevers, Continued—Typhus, Intermittent, Remittent, Eruptive, Scarjatina, Small Pox, &e. Dr Hooper and Dr. Ryan.

2. Diseases of the Skin, Hair, and Nails. Dr. Ryan.

3. Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Marrow. Dr. Ryan.

4. Diseases of the Heart and large Blood-vessels. Dr. Ryan.

5. Diseases of the Respiratory Organs, Air Tubes, and Lungs. Dr. Hooper and Dr. Ryan.

6. Diseases of the Digestive Organs, Stomach, Intestines, Liver, Spleen, &c. Dr. Hooper and Dr. Ryan.

7. Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs, Kidneys, Bladder, Urethra, Vagina, Uterus, and Ovaries. Dr. Ryan.

8. Diseases of the Senses—of the Eye, Tongue. Ear, and Nose. ie

9. Diseases of the Cellular, Mucous, Serous, Synovial, Muscular, Tendinous, Osseous, and Glandular Tissues. Dr. Ryan.

«*Tt is a service rendered to physicians, to prepare for them a compen-~ dium of what is most essential in practice; but such a work cannot be done but by an experienced and clever physician. The Vademecum to which we allude has these advantages.

‘* The foundation of the work belongs to the late Dr. Hooper, but the improvements, and the discriminate and talented selection of the most positive progress of the healing heart, are due to Dr. Ryan. Indeed, we feel happy to have this opportunity of giving our opinion on the incessant and valuable contributions, with which this gentleman has enriched the medical literature of his own country. The Vademecum of Dr. Ryan con-

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tains, in the most lucid and yet condensed manner, all that it is necessary to know in the practice of the present day—the etiology, symptomatology, and—semeiotic have been considerably enlarged; the article on auscultation contains the latest improvements—that on diseases of the skin, of the heart, of the respiratory, digestive, and genito-urinary organs, contains such valuable aud progressive additions, that this Vademecum is stamped more with the talented judgment of Dr. Ryan, than with the original plan of Dr. Hooper, who necessarily would be a little behind in time. We are of opinion this Vademecum reflects great credit on Dr. Ryan, and we think a translation of it would be well received on the Continent.”—The Continental and British Medical Review, August 1838.— Edited by Dr. Bureaud Riofrey. The sale of this work since its publication has been almost unprecedented. It is a text book in every medical school in the kingdom, and is in the possession of a large portion of medical students and practitioners.

II,

A MANUAL OF MIDWIFERY ; or Compendium of Gynecology and Pedonosology ; comprising an Account of the Symptoms and Treatment of the most important Diseases of Women and Children, with the Management of the various forms of Parturition. Third edition —Plates.

“ A work replete with useful information.”—Good’s Study of Medicine, by Professor S. Cooper, 1830.—Coope?’s Surgical Dictionary, 1830, art. Ceesarean Section.

** The work of Dr. Ryan evinces considerable research, discrimination, acuteness of observation and talent.”— Medico-Chirurgical Review.

** Dr. Ryan’s work will contribute, in a high degree, to maintain the respectability and importance of Midwifery. It contains, according to its size, more useful information on the subject than any work with which we are acquainted. Instead of spreading out the subject into an extensive systematic treatise, the author has drawn together all the facts both in ancient and modern writing, and has condensed them into 353 duodecimo pages. (The present edition extends to 737 pages). Every page of it is full of information, highly interesting to the practitioner; and we feel satisfied that it will be appreciated by every scientific member of the profession.”—London Medical and Surgical Journal.—Late Editors.

** Your Manual appears te me to contain a great deal of most useful information, in a very concentrated form. I have no doubt that it must prove useful to the profession, more especially to the younger part, who, from its size, can carry it along with them and consuit it when they wish to refresh their memory on any point on which they may have doubt.”— Extract of a Letter from Professor Burns, of Glasgow, Author of the Elements of Midwifery to the Author.

**M. Ryan vient de faire en Angleterre pour les aceouchemens, ce que M. Le Professeur Duges et M. Tarvenier avaient fait en France, pour la méme branche de art et pour la chirurgie.

*“*M. Ryan a resemble, dans un manuel fort bien résumée ce qu’on possede de mieux sur la tocologie.”—Trait Compiet de ? Art des Accouchemens, &e. Fe. Par Alf. Velpeau, Professeur de Clinique Chirurgicale, sc. §«. Troisieme edition, 1835.

‘© Though we have an utter abhorence at all ‘ royal roads’ to practical Midwifery and its relations, as explained in the title-page of this work, we are, nevertheless, bound to eonfess, that the author has redeemed his promise with more success than has been done in any work we have yet seen, which purported to be a ‘ Manual.’ The author appears to have been laborious in research; and to possess the happy art of condensing the sense of his authorities, without destroying the spirit of their meaning. He appears truly (as he declares it was his intention) ‘ to compress, in a small compass, all the valuable matter connected with the anatomy, pathology, and therapeutics of the organs peculiar to females, and to have furnished his readers with the opinions of many authors that cannot be consulted in this country. This culling is acceptable to all readers; and is particularly valuable to those who may be desirous of consulting the literature upon the various subjects of which he treats. He rarely fails to instruct by his erudition, and as seldom misleads by his practical precepts, or his therapeutical views; he appears to be well qualified to choose, from the many sources to which he has resorted, as he manifests a tact for selecting, which can only be derived from both experience and correct reasoning. Ina word, it is a work that we can confidentally recommend, not only as safe to follow, so far as his directions go, but as one from which the experienced and well-instructed practitioner may find considerable information, and under these impressions we do most cordially reeommend its perusal to the American public.”—American Journal of the Medical Sciences.

** Dr. Ryan has done great credit to his own talents and learning, and a service to mankind by his industry.”—North American Medical and Surgical Journal.

“* This work contains three times more matter, according to its size, than any one we have seen.”—Medical Gazette, 1832.

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A MANUAL OF MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE ; compiled from the latest Medical and Legal works ; intended for the use of Barristers, Solicitors, Coroners, Magistrates, Jurors, and Medical Practitioners.

** This work, which is an elementary compilation from the best authors, interspersed with many original and acute observations, we can only notice briefly, since it is as incapable of being analysed asa dictionary. Ifthe author only laid claim to the merit of industry, that merit would be not a little laudable; but he is, in fact, possessed of great talent as a learned writer, a judicious compiler, and an instructive lecturer. The ability and diligence with which he conducts our contemporary, the Medical and Surgical Journal, have made him quickly and very favourably known throughout the profession; apd the versatility of his talents as an author and a teacher is exceedingly creditable in so yourg a man. :

«© Dr. Ryan’s object, in this cheap and well-constructed volume, is to give a concise, yet comprehensive view of the received principles of Medical Jurisprudence, and to collect in a small compass, the scattered and isolated facts from the standard works of legal and medical writers. In many portions of the work, however, Dr. R, is nota mere compiler; for, in both the ethical and legal chapters, he has interwoven a great deal of original— and, what is of more consequence, of enlightened, liberal, and independant remarks, which cannot fail, if duly appreciated to be of great use to all classes of the profession, but more especially to the junior members The laws relating to the different orders of the faculty, in these kingdoms, are

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more clearly enunciated, and more succinctly compiled, than in any other publication in the English or any other language. In the selections on medical evidence and the adulteration of alimentary matters, much original and important information is concentrated in a small space. We have, indeed, been astonished that Dr. Ryan has been able to dedicate so much time to the laborious research which this volume displays, considering his other avocations as an editor, a lecturer, and a practitioner. After this declaration it is hardly necessary to say, that we recommend the work.”— Medico-Chirurgical Review. Edited by Dr. James Johnson.

‘© The main object of Dr. Ryan has been to afford the greatest quantum of information in the smallest compass, and in the most familiar manner ; or, in:fact, to simplify the subject as much as possible, so as to render it intelligible to every class of medical practitioners, as well as to gentlemen of the bar, jurymen, and even general readers. This task the author has executed in a satisfactory manner; and although we do not agree with him im some points, we are acquainted with no work on Medica! Jurisprudence that presents so much valuable information, in so condensed and yet so clear aform. Dr. Ryan has freely availed himself of the labours of his predecessors in this department of knowledge; and it is one peculiar merit of his, that he frankly acknowledges his obligations to his fellow labourers im science, and that he never avails himself of the observations of others without giving them due credit; this is so rare in the present book-making age, that we are happy in holding up our author’s scrupulous attention in ‘rendering unto Cesar the things that are Cesay’s,’ as an example by which we might all profit.

‘* An American edition of it, with such additions and alterations as may be required to adapt it to the jurisprudence of this country, would we think, be a valuable addition to our medical and legal libraries; not as a substitute for the more extended work of Dr. Beck, but as a catalogue raisonné of the various questions in which jurisprudence calls on her sister science for elucidation.”—American Journal of the Medieal Sciences, Nov. i, 1831.*

** This work is calculated to attract the attention of prefessional men, and, indeed of the general reader, by the variety of its matter and perspicuity of style.”—Herald, Courier.

**}t is replete with interesting and valuable information ”—Literary Gazette, Sun, Globe.

“It is invaluable to medical practitioners, and may be consulted safely by the legal profession.”— Weekly Dispateh.

IV.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE, in its Social, Moral, and Physical Relations, and on the Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs, which impair or destroy their functions, with the Physiology of Generation in the vegetable and animal kingdoms, being part of a course of Lectures on Obstetric Medicine, annually delivered in London. Fourth edition in the press.

*© In the whole ‘range of bibliography there is not a more taking title. The work will have a prodigious sale, and does not contain a word which ought not to be known to medical practitioners.”—-Dr. Johnson’s Medico- Chirurgical Review, July, 1838.

One thousand five hundred copies of this work have been disposed of in one year, and another edition of three thousand is about to go to press. The work has met with the approbation of many medical philanthropists, and other distinguished personages, including clergymen of every denomination. The author has a voluminous correspondence to this effect.

* An American edition was published by Professor Griffith.

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V.

Third Edition in two years—In the Press, greatly enlarged and improved.

THE UNIVERSAL PHARMACOPIA OF HOS- PITALS, of England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Russia, and America: or, a Conspectus of Prescriptions of the most eminent Physicians and Surgeons, in Medicine, Surgery, and Obstetricy—of MM. Magendie, Lugol, Dupuytren, Alibert, &c. ; with the doses and modes of administration of all new and ordinary Medicines, action of Medicines on the Animal Economy, and rules for prescribing. and compounding Medicines. Translated from the new French edition of MM. Milne Edwards and P. Vavasseur, and considerably augmented by Michael Ryan, M.D. &c.

** One of the most valuable VYademeeums we have ever seen.”—Medico- Chirurgical Review, Oct. 1835.

** Upon the whole, we can very properly recommend this work, not only to our readers in general, but to those medical men in particular who, amid the wear and tear of practice, sink into a hurtful sterility of prescription, and take up the convenient doctrine that there are only half a dozen good medicines in the world.”—British and Foreign Medical Review, July, 1836.

«* A sort of Polyglot Pharmacopeeia.”—-Medical Gazette.

VI.

THE MEDICO -CHIRDRGICAL PHARMACO- PCEZIA ; or, a Conspectus of the best Prescriptions: containing an account of all new medicines, doses, &c.— Magendie’s and Lugol’s Formularies—the Improvements in the London Pharmacopcia—New Nomenclature—the Treatment of Poisoning— Dislocations, Fractures, and natural and difficult Parturition.

** A vast mass of information is in this little work, all useful at the bedside of sickness, or in the short hour of leisure from professional toils and anxieties.”—D7. Johnson’s Review, July, 1838.

Two editions of this litthe work, one thousand each, were required during the last year, 1838.

VII.

Obstetric Aphorisms on the management of natural and difficult Parturitions, Puerperal Diseases, and the Physical management of Infants.

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VII.

Prostitution in London, with a comparative View of that of Paris and New York, as illustrative of the capitals and large towns of all countries; and proving moral depravation to be the most fertile source of crime, and of personal and social misery, with an account of the Nature and Treatment of the Various Diseases caused by the abuses of the Reproductive Function. Illustrated by numerous plates.

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A complete Atlas of Midwifery, containing thirty-four plates, and one hundred and twelve figures, illustrative of the Science and Practice of Obstetricy ; with descriptive and practical remarks; being a companion to all elementary and systematic works on the subject, and the first perfect delineation of this branch of surgery hitherto published in this country. The work will appear in ten monthly numbers, each containing sixteen pages 8vo. of letter-press, with three highly finished plates, averaging three figures on each.

X.

A complete Manual of Auscultation and Percussion, applied to the Diagnosis of Diseases of the Heart, Lungs, Abdominal and Pelvic Viscera ; with an account of the Treatment of Phthisis, Asthma, &c.

The author has condensed the conclusions of all modern celebrated authors, and added the results of his own personal experience. ‘The substance of this work appeared in the London Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. IX., 1836, edited by him, and afterwards in the Physicians’ Vademecum. He felt much interest in this. class of diseases, as two of his relatives and namesakes had written on Asthma and Pulmonary Consumption, and he was determined to describe these diseases, as wel] as those of the Heart, in strict accordance with the present state of science. He has published several most interesting and distressing diseases of the heart, which were relieved by a new mode of treatment.

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PROSTITUTION IN LONDON.

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DE LA PROSTITUTION DANS LA VILLE DE PARIS, considérée sous le rapport de hygiene publique, de la morale et de Yadministration ; ouvrage appuyé de documens statistiques, puisés dans les archives de la préfecture de police, avec cartes et tableaux, par A. J. B. Parent-DucuaTELet, Membre du Conseil de Salubrité de la Ville de Paris ; deuwieme édition, revue et augmentée, ornée du portrait de l’auteur. Paris 1837. 2 forts vols. in 8vo. 16s.

“« Pour composer ce livre,’ dit l’auteur, “‘j’ai eu recours aux documens renfermes dans les archives de la préfecture de police. J! existe dans cette administration une division connue sous le nom de bureau des meurs ; la se trouvent des registres et des papiers d’une haute importance. J’ai puise largement a cette source précieuse, et je puis dire que © est dans ce bureau que j’ai composé mon livre; j’en suis redevable a la bienveillance de MM. les préfets de police Delaveau, Bebelagme Mangin, Girod (de l’ Ain), Raude, Vivien, Gisquet,

Sale on fallu plusieurs années pour achever dans le bureau des meurs le relevé, non seulement des écritures qu’on y tient et des registres qu’on y conserve, mais, encore des dossiers individuels, tenus sur toutes ces femmes, qui se trouvent a la téte des maisons de prostitution, et sur chacune des filles publiques gue l’administration a pu soumettre a sa surveillance.”

WITH A

COMPARATIVE VIEW

PARIS AND NEW YORK,

AS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE CAPITALS AND LARGE TOWNS OF ALL COUNTRIES; AND PROVING MORAL DEPRAVATION TO BE THE MOST FERTILE SOURCE OF CRIME,

AND OF PERSONAL AND SOCIAL MISERY ;

Wi1TH

AN ACCOUNT OF THE NATURE AND TREATMENT OF THE VARIOUS DISEASES, CAUSED BY THE ABUSES OF THE REPRODUCTIVE FUNCTION.

ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS PLATES.

By MICHAEL RYAN, M.D.,

MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGES OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS IN LONDON, SENIOR PHYSICIAN TO THE METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL, LECTURER ON THR PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, ETC.

LONDON:

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PHILANTHROPISTS AND PUBLIC FUNCTIONARIES,

THE FACULTIES OF

LAW, MEDICINE, AND DIVINITY, LEGISLATORS, JUDGES, TO THE CONDUCTORS OF THE PUBLIC PRESS,

AND ALL ENLIGHTENED INDIVIDUALS 5

AND MORE ESPECIALLY TO THE FOUNDERS, PATRONS, AND GOVERNORS OF ALL PUBLIC HOSPITALS AND OTHER CHARITIES,

PARTICULARLY OF

FEMALE PENITENTIARIES, THE SOCIETIES FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF VICE, AND THE PREVENTION OF PROSTITUTION, THIS WORK IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

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Tux author of the following pages cannot fix upon a more proper patronage for a work of this kind, than that of all philanthropic and enlightened individuals, whose compassion for the misfortunes and miseries of all classes of society, and more especially of the female sex, has led them to establish public charities, for the alleviation of moral and physical suffering, and the improvement of public morals.

According to our contradictory, anomalous, and absurd laws, statute, common, ecclesiastical and civil—women are most shamefully and inhumanly exposed to seduction, prostitution, adultery and ruin ; they seem to be considered the lawful prey to the lust, treachery, cruelty, and artifices of licentious and profligate men, who may seduce and then abandon them at will, as is evinced by that infamous charter of libertinism, the Poor Law Bill ; by the irrational and unchristian Marriage Laws, which encourage adulterers, fornicators and seducers, while they severally punish helpless and degraded women.

It must be apparent to the very commonest observer, that a want of wise legislation in these respects, is the

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source of all the evils which the disinterested and humane endeavours of philanthropists, are intended to prevent and remedy.

It is also obvious, that a system of laws, which leaves the horrid crimes of seduction, adultery, and other sexual vices, not only out of the list of its capital punishments— but even exempts them, as public offences, from any animadversion whatsoever, in our ecclesiastical, criminal, and civil courts of judicature, must promote all those mischiefs, which arise from the encouragement that impunity affords to vice. According to our present laws, any man may seduce and abandon at his pleasure as many unfortunate, deluded objects of his brutal appetite as he pleases, and then consign them to infamy, disgrace, and to the horrible alternatives of suicide or infanticide, which are punishable with the penalties of transportation for life, or even an ignominious death.

The following pages will clearly show the alarming increase of moral depravation, seduction, bastardy, prostitution, adultery, and a multitude of other monstrous crimes, which philanthropists, legislators, clergy, and public functionaries endeavour to prevent or diminish. But whilst human laws are opposed to the divine and natural, such evils will continue, Every effort, therefore, should be made by the benevolent to influence the Legislature, and to procure laws based upon nature and religion, If the Legislature and Government will take nature and the Sacred Seripture for their guides, they will find the remedy in their own hands; if they will but consult medical advisers—individuals well acquainted with the subject—not the antiquated members of our medical corporations, whom chance and intrigue may have placed in office, they

PREFACE. Vii will legislate wisely ; but not under ordinary circumstances, which are influenced by ignorance and folly. To all desirous of this kind of legislation, this volume is most respectfully addressed.

It will be found in the following pages, that the author has had the kind co-operation of the Commissioners of Metropolitan Police, the Societies for the Suppression of Vice and the Prevention of Juvenile Prostitution; and more particularly, that he has obtained the most important information from Mr, J. B. Talbot, the humane founder of the truly excellent society last mentioned. He has acted in concert with these public functionaries, in the ardent hope and full expectation of obtaining better legislation for the protection of public morals, and the diminution of crime and punishment.

With respect to the second part of the work on Venereal and other Diseases, it was introduced in consequence of the suggestions of able reviewers of M. Duchatelet’s voluminous production, “ that the statistical should be followed by medical facts; thus connecting causes and effects.” This arrangement, though decidedly the best, has not been hitherto adopted. It renders the work complete, and is also calculated to diminish much personal and social misery. It will deter many from the commission of vices most injurious to health, and to the interests of society.