Notes on materia medica : pharmacology and therapeutics for dental students and practitioners / by Douglas Gabell and Harold Austen.

  • Gabell, Douglas (Douglas Phillimore)
Date:
1902
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    PREFACE. These “ Notes ” were originally designed for the use of students proceeding to the examination for the L.D.S. England. It is hoped, however, that they may also- prove of some service to the dental practitioner. It need hardly be said that this volume does not claim to be a complete treatise upon the so-callcd Dental Materia Medica, nor, indeed, anything more than an attempt to set down as briefly and in as practical a manner as possible, tliose properties, actions, and appli- cations of drugs which are of utility or interest to tlie dental surgeon. For this reason any description of tlie noncraJ therapeutic action of drugs has been omitted, except in cases where it has been considered that such thera- peutic action approaches nearly to the border-line which,, for the sake of convenience, divides dental from general medical practice. Of many drugs, which find a place in larger works on the subject, all description has been left- out, either from their doubtful utility or from a desire to avoid confusion, which would be caused by multiplying descriptions of those having an identical action. Others,, again, have been inserted with a view either of completing the classification of pharmacological groups, or their