Manual of materia medica and pharmacy : specially designed for the use of practitioners and medical, pharmaceutical, dental, and veterinary students / by E. Stanton Muir.

  • Muir, E. Stanton (Edwin Stanton), 1863-
Date:
1904
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Credit: Manual of materia medica and pharmacy : specially designed for the use of practitioners and medical, pharmaceutical, dental, and veterinary students / by E. Stanton Muir. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PART I. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. Materia Medica is a compoand subject, consisting of four distinct divisions, as follows: Materia Medica proper. Pharmacy, Pharmacology, and Therapeutics. It is our purpose to consider the first two and dismiss pharmacology'’ and therapeutics with the consideration of some few definitions and features which are so closely interwoven with materia medica itself as to make their consideration necessary in an explanatory sense. Materia Medica proper is the science which treats of the crude drug and, if it is of vegetable origin, gives the natural order of plants to which it belongs, wdth the habitat; describes the plant as welTas the part which is official; names the prin- cipal constituents; and, if it is poisonous, considers this subject and the antidote therefor, together with the dosage of the crude drug and its preparations. It also gives the physical charac- teristics of organic, inorganic, and animal drugs, together with other considerations, including the toxicology and posology. Included in materia medica proper are four classes of drags, as follows:— 1. Organic.—The carbon compounds, which include the alcohols, ethers, chloroform, iodoform, and all preparations made synthetically or prepared artificially. 2. Inorganic.—All the metals and their salts. •3. Vegetable.—Those drugs which are of vegetable origin. 4. Animal.—Drugs derived from the animal kingdom. Pharmacy teaches us the mode of making preparations from the crude rlrug, and how to combine them for adminis- tration.