A manual of hypodermatic medication : the treatment of diseases by the hypodermatic method. / by Roberts Bartholow.

Date:
1882
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    TO THE FOURTH EDITION. The rapid progress made in therapeutical science ren- ders'necessary frequent revision of any work devoted to its exposition. This is especially true of hypodermatic thera- peutics, which deals with the active principles,—the new- est products of chemical research, which may be made available for this method of administration. Hence, since the publication of the third edition of this manual, so much has been contributed to this subject, that many changes, and considerable addition of new material, has been found necessary. I have rewritten much of the work, and have added new matter to the extent of one hundred and four- teen pages of text. As heretofore, I have incorporated those new contributions to therapeutics which seem so well grounded as to be permanent additions to knowledge. In the substitution of the term hypodermatic for the familiar word hypodermic, my action may or may not be generally approved, but the change is urgently demanded in the interests of a correct nomenclature. To make the attempt at substitution successful it will be necessary to have the co-operation of medical authors. The unanimity