The principles and methods of therapeutics / by Adolphe Gubler ; tr. from the French.

  • Gubler, A. (Adolphe), 1821-1879.
Date:
1881
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Credit: The principles and methods of therapeutics / by Adolphe Gubler ; tr. from the French. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE- PEEPATOEY NOTE.... 3 BIOGEAPHICAL SKETCH OF PEOFESSOE GUBLEE 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS 11 CHAPTEE L—GENEEAL THEEAPEUTICS 17 General Therapeutics : Therapeutics first commenced by empiri- cism—Difference between a remedy and a medicament. Eemedies : Moral — Love, victory, music, reading, travels, amulets, homoeo- pathy; Ponderable—Mechanical apparatus, percussion; Biological —Globules of the blood, virus, hybridity, ethnics. Medicaments : Attempts at classification ■»— Dangers attending all classifications. Physiological Properties : Mechanical Action—Mercury, oil of sweet almonds, mucilages, charcoal, tannin, ammonia, iodine, and bromide of potassium ; Chemical Action—Old theory, effect through presence, alkalinity, acescence ; Histological Combination—Its laws ; Dynamic Action—Applications of the theory of the correlation of forces. CHAPTEE IT.—GENEEAL THEEAPEUTICS—[Continued]......... 30 Specifics in Therapeutics: The doctrine of signs; Dynamizing Action—Alkaloids, glucosides, tea, coffee, coca, maté. Criticism of the Expression Tissue-saving medicaments, or agents lim- iting waste. Theory of Organic Forces : Examples ; Adynam- izing Actions—Tonics, stimulants, radical forces, and acting forces. Effects of Medicaments: Physical, chemical and organic— Preponderance of the organism in the effects of medicaments— Positive and negative—direct and indirect, transitory and durable effects, (alteratives)—Arsenic. CHAPTEE TIL—GENEEAL THEEAPEUTICS—[Continued] 42 Correlation of Organic Forces—The organism makes use only of the natural forces—Application to the action of electricity—All medi- cinal action reduces itself to an exchange of matter or of force—