Elements of pharmacy, materia medica, and therapeutics / by William Whitla.

  • Whitla, William, 1851-1933.
Date:
1885
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Credit: Elements of pharmacy, materia medica, and therapeutics / by William Whitla. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The aim of this little work is to give to the student of medicine such information in a concise form as he generally has to sift out of two or more of the larger manuals. So many valuable volumes have been written on Materia Medica and Therapeutics as to leave little necessity for another: but it is not the inten- tion of the writer to presume that this work will take the place of any of them, the question of space necessitating the know- ledge being given to the reader often in a very fragmentary condition. The arrangement of the sul\jcct. which has been sanctioned })j custom, has been departed from, the work being divided into distinct and separate sections, and the drugs arranged alphabetically. The writer found that most students in grap- pling with Materia Medica generally read the Therapeutics of each remedy once or twice over, while its preparations had to 1)6 committed to memory. Thus, a process of confused selec- tion always distracted and prevented that clear view of each detail so ncccsfary to ensure a thorough grasp of every hraneli of the subject. Many students, too, have already mastered the cliemistry of each dru'j,- in Ihe laboratory, atid hence in such, an arrangement like the one adopted will probably be liene- liciai ; whilst to those who have not, the condensed bird's-eye view of the subject may bo appreciated. 'I'lie writer is satisfied that this plan is open to serious olijcctions, as is the moM generally followed one, but he hopes that it may assist llir ;drcaily over-laxed student, who often fails tn gel any idea nl