The consumptive's guide to health, or, the invalid's five questions, and the doctor's five answers ; a comprehensive practical treatise on pulmonary consumption ... addressed in popular language to non-medical readers, and incidentally to physicians and students / by J. Hamilton Potter, M.D.

  • Potter, J. Hamilton.
Date:
1852
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Credit: The consumptive's guide to health, or, the invalid's five questions, and the doctor's five answers ; a comprehensive practical treatise on pulmonary consumption ... addressed in popular language to non-medical readers, and incidentally to physicians and students / by J. Hamilton Potter, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE: WITH NOTICES OF HIS LIFE AND GENIUS, BY J. R. LOWELL, N. P. WILLIS, AND R. W. GRISWOLD. In two Volumes, 12/no., with a Portrait of the Author. Price, Two Dollars and Fiftx Cents. NOTICES OK THE PRESS. The edition is published for the benefit of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Maria Clemm, for whose sake we may wish it the fullest success. It however, de- serves, and will undoubtedly obtain, a large circulation from the desire so many will feel to lay by a memorial of this singularly-gifted writer and unfortunate man.—Philadelphia North American. Poe's writings are distinguished for vigoious and minute analysis, and the skill with which he has employed the strange fascination of mystery and terror. There is an air of reality in all his narrations—a dwelling upon partic- ulars, and a faculty of interesting you in them such as is possessed by few writers except those who are giving their own individual experiences. The reader can scarcely divest his mind, even in reading the most fanciful of his stories, that the events of it have not actually occurred, and the characters had a real existence.—Philadelphia Ledger. **We need not say that these volumes will be found rich in intellectual excitements, and abounding in remarkable specimens of vigorous, beautiful, and highly suggestive composition; they are all that remains to us of a man whose uncommon genius it would be folly to deny.—N. Y. Ti'ibune. Mr. Poe's intellectual character—his genius—is stamped upon all his produc- tions, and we shall place these his works in the library among those books not to be parted with.—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. These works have a funereal cast as well in the melancholy portrait pre- fixed and the title, as in the three pallbearing editors who accompany them in public. They are the memorial of a singular man, possessed perhaps of as great mere literary ingenuity and mechanical dexterity of style and manage- ment as any the country has produced. Some of the tales in the collection are as complete and admirable as anything of their kind in the language.— Military Review. 11A complete collection of the works of one of the most talented and singu- lar men of the day. Mr. Poe was a genius, but an erratic one—he was a comet or a meteor, not a star or sun. His genius was that almost contradiction of terms, an analytic genius. Genius is nearly universally synthetic—but Poe was an exception to all rules. Ho would build up a poem as a bricklayer builds a wall; or rather, he would begin at the top and build downward to the base; and yet, into the poem so manufactured., he would manage to breathe the breath of life. And this fact proved that it was not all a manufacture—that the poem was also, to a certain degree, a growth, a real plant, taking root in the mind, and watered by the springs of the soul.—Saturday Post. We have just spent some delightful hours in looking over these two vol- umes, which contain one of the most pleasing additions to our literature with which we have met for a long time. They comprise the works of the late Edgar A. Poe—pieces which for years have been going ' the rounds of the press,' and are now first collected when their author is beyond the reach of numar. praise. We feel, however, that these productions will live. They bear t\ie stamp of true genius ; and if their reputation begins with a ' fit audi- ence 'Ji'jugh few,' the circle will be constantly widening, and they will retain a prominent place in our literature.—Rev, Dr. Kip