Dental materia medica, pharmacology and therapeutics / by Charles W. Glassington.

  • Glassington, Charles W.
Date:
1896
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    ture of the oesopliagais, ulcer of the stomach, &c., where the patient either cannot swallow, or vomiting- is excited by the entrance of food into the stomach. The articles generally used are beef-tea, eggs, milk, brandy, &c., and these are often mixed with Pepsin or Pancreatin to aid their digestion. In addition there are anthelmintic enemata which expel worms, antipyretic enemata to reduce tempera- ture, and styptic enemata to arrest haemorrhage. Where the different forms of injections cannot be retained, suppositories may be used instead. PHARMACOLOGY THE ACTION OF MEDICINES PHARMACOLOGY is the science of the action of remedies, and deals with the modifications produced in healthy conditions by the operation of substances capable of producing modifications. It means the same as the expression the physiological action of drugs (Murrell). Medicines, when taken into the system, undergo various changes, which in a great measure depend upon, and are modified by, what we eat and drink, by the temperature of the body, the state of the system, and by their tendency to combine with other substances and form fresh compounds. Some drugs will be considerably altered by the action of other substances; for instance, in a case of poisoning by