The specific action of drugs on the healthy system : an index to their therapeutic value, as deduced from experiments on man and animals / by Alexander G. Burness and F. J. Mavor.

  • Burness, Alexander George.
Date:
1874
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Credit: The specific action of drugs on the healthy system : an index to their therapeutic value, as deduced from experiments on man and animals / by Alexander G. Burness and F. J. Mavor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    INTEODUCTION. The purport of this work maybe briefly summarised thus— To point out that the full therapeutic value of each substance (i.e., its value in the treatment of disease) is only to be deter- mined by ascertaining the symptoms produced, and the parts influenced by each substance when introduced into the healthy animal economy; and that this is to be done by careful observation of cases where a substance has been in- troduced either by accident or intention, the quantity taken in each case, as well as the form and mode in which intro- duced, being also noted. In the First Chapter, a few examples are adduced to show that each disease is characterized by certain primary symptoms peculiar to itself, due in most cases to some, as yet, unknown cause, specifically influencing some special parts or tracts; and in the same chapter various examples are brought forward, showing that there are various known
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