Therapeutics, or, the art of healing. To which is added, a glossary, to explain all the difficult words; recipes for several popular medicines now in use; and a dosological table, by which the proper dose of any medicine may be instantly seen. Accompanied with a sketch of the author's life, by Thomas Marryat, M.D.

  • Marryat, Thomas, 1730-1792.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Therapeutics, or, the art of healing. To which is added, a glossary, to explain all the difficult words; recipes for several popular medicines now in use; and a dosological table, by which the proper dose of any medicine may be instantly seen. Accompanied with a sketch of the author's life, by Thomas Marryat, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ORIGINAL PREFACE TO THE PUBLIC. BY THE AUTHOR. In prescribing medicines, the effects of due combi- nation are beyond measure astonishing ^ and we may assign sufficient reasons why two powers, separately inodorous, when combined, possess the acutest pun- gency 5 or when two liquids perfectly cold, as soon as united, take fire and burst into flame, even in the exhausted receiver of an air-pump; In the human body th^re are so many chemical processes carried on, and such a variety of operations of nature, that the utmost limits of our knowledge of the modus operandi seem to terminate in prohaUlity,—All we know is, that such and such a combination has produced such and such an alteration 5 and therefore it is highly pro^ hahle ihzi such a cause may again produce the same effect; as for instance, I have seen a great number of cases wherein the asafoetida has been given in large quantities, and for a considerable time to no purpose; when joined with a chalybeate, it had soon the desired effect.