The essentials of materia medica and therapeutics / by Alfred Baring Garrod.

  • Garrod, Alfred Baring, 1819-1907.
Date:
[1870?]
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Credit: The essentials of materia medica and therapeutics / by Alfred Baring Garrod. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PEEFACE. The former Editions of this Work have been so well received both by practitioners and students of medicine, that the Author has endeavoured, in an- other Edition, to render it more worthy of their approval. The changes made in the present Edition are:— 1. The chemistrv of each article has been com- pletely revised; and while both nomenclatures have been adopted at the heading of each article, in harmony with the present edition of the British Pharmacopoeia, in the discussion of the chemistry of the subject the new nomenclature, which is readily recognisable by different character of type, has been invariably employed. 2. The therapeutics of each important medicinal agent has been much enlarged, and in many cases almost re-written. A special chapter, devoted to the arrangement of medicines in therapeutic groups, to- gether with a brief notice of the mode of action of