Encyclopædia Medica
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hundred pages, are a continuation of those formerly reviewed {vide vols. xvii. and xviii.). Some thirty to forty principal articles are to be found in each volume, and these, written by authorities on the respective subjects, are important monographs. In a comprehensive work like this there must of necessity be some inequality, but for the most part the editor has successfully avoided this difficulty. Other encyclopaedias devoted to medicine, surgery, and gynaecology respectively contain fuller details; but, for their size, the present volumes contain more information than other works of a similar class.
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