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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    this variability—Variable rapidity of elimination—Choice of elimination made by medicaments. CHAPTER XXVII.—ELIMINATION OF MEDICAMENTS—[Con- tinited] 341 Influence of different doses—Practical applications—Under what form substances are eliminated, intact or more or less transformed. CHAPTER XXVIII. — ELIMINATION OF MEDICAMENTS— [Continued]..... 355 Oxidations in the economy—Variations in the action of remedial agents —Rôle of medicaments—Rôle of the organism. CHAPTER XXIX.—ACCUMULATION OF REMEDIAL AGENTS, 369 Insignificance of small doses—Therapeutic minimum—Tolerance and intolerance—State of the organs of absorption—Individual condi- tions—State of the secretions. CHAPTER XXX.—PREVENTION OF ACCUMULATION 382 Means to avoid accumulation of doses—Administration in pill form condemned—Accumulation of action different from accumulation of doses—Causes and variations of accumulation of action. CHAPTER XXXI.—FORCE OF HABIT 395 Force of habit—Frequent repetition—Influence of organic predisposi- tion, or of local organic condition. CHAPTER XXXIL—INTOLERANCE 406 Intolerance—Adjuvants — Synergetic and antagonistic substances— Counter-poisons and antidotes. CHAPTER XXXIII.—ANTAGONISM BETWEEN MORPHINE AND ATROPINE 417 Therapeutic antagonism in general. CHAPTER XXXIV.—CONDITIONS AFFECTING MEDICINAL ACTION 426 Influence of the size of the body ; of sex ; of age ; of temperament ; of manner of living ; of race ; of climate. INDEX 437