A treatise on therapeutics : comprising materia medica and toxicology with especial reference to the application of the physiological action of drugs to clinical medicine / by H. C. Wood.

  • Wood, H. C., Jr. (Horatio C.), 1841-1920.
Date:
1880
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Credit: A treatise on therapeutics : comprising materia medica and toxicology with especial reference to the application of the physiological action of drugs to clinical medicine / by H. C. Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In offering a second edition of this work to the profession, I desire to express my warmest thanks for the very kind manner in which the first was received, both by reviewers and by the reading medical public. The sale of a large edition, almost within the year, has been not only a source of great personal gratification, but also a strong incentive to render the book as worthy, as lies in my power, of continued favor. Some portions have been re-written; in a very few cases some alterations of conclusions have been arrived at; but the chief changes consist in the additions. A more extensive review of the literature has been made, so that nearly three hun- dred references have been added to the old articles, and a number of neW articles have been introduced. Among the more important of the subjects thus first discussed may be mentioned Coffee and Tea, Tobacco, Arnica, Eucalyptus, Picric Acid, Lithium, Oxalate of Cerium, Gelsemium, Jabo- randi, Salicylic Acid, Cold and Heat, Electricity, etc. Great care has been given to the condensation of the text, and to the saving of space in the mechanical execution, so that it is confidently believed that, whilst seem- ingly only about one hundred pages have been added, yet in reality the book has been increased by nearly one hundred and fifty pages. In con- clusion, I would especially express my indebtedness to Dr. Billings, of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, for aid of a character that could be furnished only by one having at his command such rare bibliographical knowledge and so magnificent a library. Philadelphia, August, 1875.