A text-book of pharmacology, therapeutics and materia medica / by T. Lauder Brunton ; adapted to the United States Pharmacopoeia by Francis H. Williams.

  • Brunton, T. Lauder (Thomas Lauder), 1844-1916.
Date:
1887
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    treatment of cough and on the pathology and treatment of asthma have been introduced. The researches of Adami on diuretics have been noticed, but they have not necessitated any essential change in the text, as the communication between the portal vein of the kidney and the renal artery had been already allowed for in describing Nussbaum's researches in the first edition. The views expressed in the first edition regarding the mode of action of caffeine have been confirmed and extended by the observations of Schroeder and Munk. The researches of Jendrassik on the diuretic action of calomel and the explanation advanced by Locke have been noticed. The arrangement of the Vegetable Materia Medica has been almost entirely remodelled on Hooker's plan, and a short intro- duction has been added to it, in which I have tried to show the use of botanical arrangement, as well as to protest against the abuse of it in the examination of students in Materia Medica. By the use of small type for matters which are of practically little interest to general students, and yet are occasionally wanted for reference, a certain amount of space has been gained, at the same time that the general student is enabled at a glance to distinguish the parts which are of little or no interest to him. Notwithstanding my efforts to condense it, the present edition contains about 120 pages more than the second, but by using thinner paper the bulk of the volume has been little, if at all, increased. The General Index has been carefully revised. The Index of Diseases and Remedies has been revised to a certain extent, but it stiU remains a mere skeleton of what it ought to be. It is little more than a list of drugs which have been recommended by somebody or other at some time or other in the treatment of certain diseases. In a few instances the conditions supposed to indicate the use of one drug in preference to another have been given, but I have not yet been able to sift the statements which have been made regarding the different drugs. The only use of the Index at present is simply to remind the practitioner who is treating a disease of the names of drugs which have been proposed as remedies for it. Thus, under the head of Hydrophobia 1 have mentioned a number of remedies which have been used or pro- posed, because those who may Ijave to treat a case of this disease may wish to try some remedy, although my own experience leads me to think that almost all well-marked cases will have a fatal issue whatever the drugs employed may be.