The physician's vademecum, or, A manual of the principles and practice of physic : containing the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of diseases; accompanied by a select collection of formulae, with a table of the doses of all medicines now in use / by Robert Hooper.

  • Hooper, Robert, 1773-1835.
Date:
1833
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Credit: The physician's vademecum, or, A manual of the principles and practice of physic : containing the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of diseases; accompanied by a select collection of formulae, with a table of the doses of all medicines now in use / by Robert Hooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    Stokes, Dr. Townsend, and Dr. Hope; and also the signs furnished by percussion, succussion, and mensuration. The indications deduced from the cerebro-spinal system, including the intellectual faculties; from the digestive system, the secre- tory system, the locomotive system, and the genito-urinary or genital system will, it is supposed, supply much valuable in- formation to those commencing the study and practice of medicine. The succeeding section on general therapeutics, and espe- cially on the actions of medicines upon the living body, has been compiled from the best works on the subject, espe- cially those of M. Barbier, Dr. SpiUan, and Dr. A. T. Thomson, and will be perused with advantage by the junior members of the profession. The articles on Synochus, In- tefmittent Fevers, Typhus, and the Exanthematous Diseases, have been modified according to the most recent opinions; while that on Phrenitis, or Cerebritis, has been almost re- modelled ; and those on Meningitis, Arachnitis, Diseases of the Heart, Carditis, Pericarditis, Peritonitis, Pathology of Apoplexy and Paralysis, Vaccina, Cholera Epidemica, and Pleurodynia, are editorial productions. The pathology of numerous diseases is also appended. All new medicines of undoubted value have been intro- duced; among these are the chlorides of soda and lime, I^ugol's preparations of iodine; ilicina, salacina, piperina, strychnina, and quinina, with appropriate formulte for their exhibition. A Table, showing the doses of the most efficient medi- cines in the British and foreign Pharmacopceife, has been sub- stituted for one which exhibited the modern and ancient names of drugs ; as this will be extremely convenient to those engaged in practice. The editorial additions through- out the work, with the exception of the first page, which was