Modern dental materia medica, pharmacology and therapeutics : including the practical application of drugs and remedies in the treatment of disease / by J.P. Buckley.

  • Buckley, J. P. (John Peter), 1873-1942
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[1911], ©1911
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    familiar with drugs. Therefore, it is better, in the author’s opinion, to avoid even the suggestion of questions pertaining to prescriptions at this time. By thus deferring the study of Prescription Writing to about the close of the Junior year, an excellent opportunity is afforded for practice work throughout the entire Senior year when Practical Therapeutics is taught. By this means only can students become good prescription writers—a faculty not developed by the average dentist. The second part of the book is devoted to Practical Dental Thera- peutics. In writing it the author was actuated by the belief that Dental Therapeutics is of sufficient importance to occupy a place in dentistry by itself. It is to be hoped that this subject may ulti- mately be divorced from Operative Dentistry, to which it has long been subordinated. No attempt has been made to describe all of the many methods of treatment, nor to give the endless formulas suggested in the vari- ous text-books and journals, for the pathologic conditions mentioned herein. ‘To do so would lead to confusion, as well as make the book unnecessarily voluminous, in which case the word “‘practical”’ in connection with “‘therapeutics,”’ as used here, would be a misnomer. Therefore, in most instances, only the methods by which the condi- tions are treated in the author’s own practice are detailed. These methods, of course, are not wholly original. They have been gleaned from clinical experience, from extensive reading, and from observa- tion and association with other practitioners; and in both private and infirmary practice they have given good results. The prescriptions for remedies, for the most part, are original with the author, and have been worked out along the lines of practi- cal pharmacy and therapeutics. Where the formulas are not original, due credit, so far as is known, has been given. It is unnecessary to profusely illustrate a book of thiskind. Only such illustrations as will tend to better explain the subject matter of the text are given. These, with few exceptions, were taken from actual cases in the author’s practice, or from private patients referred to him for treatment. , | The author desires to express his grateful appreciation to Dr. E. W. Elliot for valuable suggestions, to Dr. Lee K. Stewart for furnish- ing models to illustrate a practical retaining appliance, and to other professional friends for the encouragement given in undertaking the work. He further records his appreciation of the publisher’s unfail- ing courtesy. J.cP BUCKIEY: CHICAGO. )