A compendium of medical science, or, Fifty years' experience in the art of healing : being a plain and practical treatise on the prevention and cure of disease : designed to enlighten the popular mind in the true elementary principles of medicine, and protect the reading public from the mischiefs of quackery / by Samuel K. Jennings.

  • Jennings, Samuel K. (Samuel Kennedy), 1771-1854.
Date:
1847
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Credit: A compendium of medical science, or, Fifty years' experience in the art of healing : being a plain and practical treatise on the prevention and cure of disease : designed to enlighten the popular mind in the true elementary principles of medicine, and protect the reading public from the mischiefs of quackery / by Samuel K. Jennings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER VII. Treats of additional discretions in respect to the causes of dis- eases, their seats and degrees of intensity 212 PART III. CHAPTER I. Introductory to Materia Medica 227 CHAPTER II. The therapeutic power and value of medicaments 236 CHAPTER III. Of the surfaces to which medicaments may be applied, and through which impressions may be made by medical agents 241 CHAPTER IV. On Emetics 254 CHAPTER V. Emetics continued 268 CHAPTER VI. Cathartics 282 CHAPTER VII. Cathartics, continued 295 CHAPTER VIII. / Diaphoretics 308 CHAPTER IX. Diaphoretics, continued 322 CHAPTER X. Diaphoretics further continued with rules respecting their employment and method of application 334