Modern Materia Medica Nad Therapeutics

Excerpt from Modern Materia Medica and Therapeutics Since the appearance of the last edition of this book such rapid advances have been made in materia medica and thera peutics that the author has felt it imperative to rewrite the work entirely. Instead of considering the drugs in alphabetic order, as in previous editions, he has thought it best in the present revision to classify them according to their pharma cologie action. Although in the present unsettled state of pharmacology such a classification must necessarily be a very imperfect one, it has seemed to the author to possess, notwith standing its imperfections, certain advantages in that it aids the student to correlate established facts and to apply them more readily to the treatment of disease. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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