A treatise on human physiology : designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine / by John C. Dalton.

John Call Dalton

Date:: 1871

Credit: A treatise on human physiology : designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine / by John C. Dalton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$^EREIRA [JONATHAN], M.D., F.R.S. and L.S. MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS; being an Abridg- ment of the late Dr. Pereira's Elements of Materia Medica, arranged in conformity with the British Pharmacopoeia, and adapted to the use of Medical Practitioners, Chemists and Druggists, Medical and Pharmaceutical Students, &q. By F. J. Farre, M.P , Senior Physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and London Editor of the British Pharmacopoeia; assisted by Robert Bentley, M.R.C.S., Professor of Materia Medica and Botany to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain; and by Robert Warington, F.R.S., Chemical Operator to the Society of Apothecaries. With numerous additions and references to the United States Pharmacopoeia, by Horatio C. Wood, M.D., Professor of Botany in the University of Pennsylvania. In one large and handsome octavo volume of 1040 closely printed pages, with 236 illustrations, extra cloth, $7 00; leather, raised bands, $8 00 poeia, noue will be more acceptable to the student and practitioner than the present. Pereira's Materia Medica had long ago asserted for itself the position of being the most complete work on the subject in the English language. But its very completeness stood in the way of its success. Except in the way of refer- ence, or to those who made a special study of Materia Medica, Dr. Pereira's work was too full, and its pe- rusal required an amount of time which few had at their disposal. Dr. Farre has very judiciously availed himself of the opportunity of the publication of the new Pharmacopoeia, bybringing out an abridged edi- tion of the great work. This edition of Pereira is by no means a mere abridged re-issue, but contains many improvements, both in the descriptive and thera- peutical departments. We can recommend it as a very excellent and reliable tex^t-'hoo^.—Edinburgh Med. Journal, February, 1866. The reader cannot fail to be impressed, at a glance, with the exceeding value of this work as a compeud of nearly all useful knowledge on the materia medica. We are greatly indebted to Professor Wood for his adaptation of it to our meridian. Without his emen- dations and additions it would lose much of its value to the American student. With them it is an Ameri- can \>oo\i. —Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal, December, 1866. The task of the American editor has evidently been no sinecure, for not only has he given to us all that Is contained in the abridgment useful for our pur- po.'ies, but by a careful and judicious embodiment of over a hundred new remedies has increased the size of the former work fully one-third, besides adding many new illustrations, some of which are original. We unhesitatingly say that by so doing he has pro- portionately increased the value, not only of the con- densed edition, bat has extended the applicability of the great original, and has placed his medical coun- trymen under lasting obligations to him. The Ame- rican physician now has all that is needed in the shape of a complete treatise on materia medica, and the medical student has a text-book which, for prac- tical utility and intrinsic worth, stands unparalleled. Although of considerable size, it is none too large for the purposes for which it has been intended, and every Biedical man should, in justice to himself, spare a place for it upon his book-shelf, resting assured that the more he consults it the better he will be satisfied of its exeellence.—iy^. Y. Me-d. Record, Nov. 15, 1866. It will All a place which no other work can occupy tu the library of the physician, student, and apothe- eary.—Boston Med. and Surg. Journal, Nov. 8, 1866. 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He has sedu- lously endeavored to introduce in it all new preparations and combinations deserving of confidence, besides adding two new classes, Antemetics and Disinfectants, with brief references to the inhalation of atomized fluids, the nasal douche of Thudichum, suggestions upon the method of hypodermic Injection, the administration of anaesthetics, &c. &c. To accommodate these numerous additions, he has omitted much which the advance of science has rendered obsolete or of minor importance, Qotwithstanding which the volume has been increased by more than thirty pages. A new feature will be found in a copious Index of Diseases and their remedies, which cannot but increase the value of the work a* a suggestive book of reference for the working practitioner. 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