Veterinary therapeutics : a guide to the treatment of disease in the domestic animals / by E. Wallis Hoare.

  • Edward Wallis Hoare
Date:
1916
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Credit: Veterinary therapeutics : a guide to the treatment of disease in the domestic animals / by E. Wallis Hoare. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VETERINARY THERAPEUTICS PART I CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY Veterinary therapeutics is the subject which relates to the treatment of disease in the domesticated animals. Taken in its wide sense it embraces not only the application of medicinal agents, vaccines, and sera, for this purpose, but also includes such auxiliaries as hygiene, dietetics, the care, management, and nursing, of sick animals, etc. The term ‘ surgical therapeutics ’ is applied to the employment of agents for surgical conditions, and more properly belongs to the domain of surgery; hence, in the present work it can only receive brief consideration. Pharmacology deals with the action of drugs on the body, without special reference to their application in the treat¬ ment of disease. Our knowledge of the action of drugs is obtained from experiments on animals, but the clinician has to demonstrate the practical application of medicinal agents, and decide as to their value. In this book the subject of pharmacology will only be discussed so far as it bears on the treatment of disease ; in other words, we shall only deal with ‘applied’ pharmacology. Full information on the action of drugs and the methods by which this knowledge has been obtained will be found in works on pharmacology, such as those written by A. R. Cushny and W. E. Dixon. Therapeutics can only be properly studied clinically, prior
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