The action of medicines in the system, or, On the mode in which therapeutic agents introduced into the stomache produce their peculiar effects on the animal economy : being the prize essay to which the Medical Society of London awarded the Fothergillian Gold Medal for MDCCCLII / by Frederick William Headland.

  • Headland, Frederick William.
Date:
1863
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Credit: The action of medicines in the system, or, On the mode in which therapeutic agents introduced into the stomache produce their peculiar effects on the animal economy : being the prize essay to which the Medical Society of London awarded the Fothergillian Gold Medal for MDCCCLII / by Frederick William Headland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE SECOND EDITION. The First Edition of this Essay having been for some time out of print, the Author has been encouraged to hope that a second issue may meet with a favourable reception. He has been at some pains to make such additions to the present volume *as seemed to be necessitated by the rapid advance of therapeutic science, at the same time that he has felt the necessity of not increasing its bulk to an inconvenient extent. The first and second chapters have been left unaltered, but some new articles will be found scattered through the third and fourth chapters, and some additional observations and experiments recorded in the same. The Author has derived much instruction from a perusal of the various reviews of his Essay, in English and American periodicals. He is especially indebted to Dr. Maclagan, of Edinburgh, for his able and interesting articles in the Monthly Journal of Medicine. And to Professor Albers, of Bonn, the author of a recent work on the Action of ‘Medicines, he is obliged for the impartial consideration accorded to certain views in which he is still at variance with some other German therapeutists. April, 1855.