Dental materia medica and therapeutics : with special reference to the rational application of remedial measures to dental diseases a textbook for students and practitioners / by Hermann Prinz.

  • Hermann Prinz
Date:
1909
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Credit: Dental materia medica and therapeutics : with special reference to the rational application of remedial measures to dental diseases a textbook for students and practitioners / by Hermann Prinz. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. A y}stGiiicitic clcissificatioii of drugs which shall answer all pur-» poses has, never been, and probably never will be, successfully arranged. Such a classification will, according to the standpoint from which the subject is treated, evince individual trend of thought. The chemist, for example, prefers a classification according to the chemic relationship of the drugs, the pharma- cologist is principally interested in a classification according to the physiologic action of drugs, while the clinician groups the drugs according to their therapeutic effects. The author, guided l)y extensive class-room experience and clinical practice, has made an effort to point out how pharmacologic research and clinical observations may be advantageously combined in the rational use • of remedied agents for the purpose of favorably influencing dis- ease. The entire subject matter is, therefore, treated from the standpoint of the pharmaco-therapeutist. The practice of dentistry requires, in addition to specific phar- maceutic preparations, quite a large number of remedies Avhich are seldom employed by the medical practitioner, unless used by him for totally different purposes. These remedies are generically termed dental remedies, and consequently their importance de- mands special discussion. To draw a definite line of demarcation between dental and general remedies is not only impossible, hut is distinctly undesirable. Frequently conditions arise where a knowledge of general remedies is absolutely qecessary for the dental ])ractitioner—as, for example, the treatment of certain l)hases of ])ericementitis requires the administration of uric acid solvents, specific infection calls for cathartics, anti])yrefics, etc., and the mitigation of ])ain may necessitate general anodynes. The progress of dental pharmac()-fhera])eufics has not kept pace with the remarkable advances made in the tec'hnical branches of denti.stry. The unsatisfactory classification of dental remedial agents is largely due to a gross disregard of the i)rogress made iu general pharmacology and pathology. The princi])al part of
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