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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    ginal than others, although not perhaps for that reason more valuable. For this purpose may be mentioned the considera- tion of the second and third propositions; the distinction which I have drawn between the two divisions of Blood-medi- cines ; the account given of Tonics in one of these divisions, and of Anti-arthritics in the other ; the treatment of the sec- tion on Narcotics ; the theory of the action of Eliminative medicines ; the experiments made on the action of some re- medies in particular (Chap. IV.;) etc.