The science and art of prescribing / by E. H. Colbeck and Arnold Chaplin.

  • Colbeck, Edmund Henry, 1865-
Date:
1906
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The science and art of prescribing / by E. H. Colbeck and Arnold Chaplin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BA Rule]; Methods of Prescribing. CAR OLY EIR Oa keed& THE PRESCRIPTION. Definition— Decadence of prescription writing—Causes of—Principles and objects of medicinal combina- tion—kules for prescription writing—Analysis of prescription. F Rom a medical point of view the term prescrip- tion is used to denote the form or formula in which drugs are employed, either singly or collectively, in the treatment of disease. Although there is probably an increasing ten- dency at the present time to prescribe drugs singly, there can nevertheless be no doubt of the manifold advantages that are afforded by a scientific and judicious combination of drugs. It is regrettable that the medical education of the present day offers the student so little opportunity of cultivating the art of prescription writing, in- asmuch as it is the mastery of this art that con- stitutes one of the essential and indispensable acquirements of the accomplished physician. It can scarcely be questioned, too, that the art of prescribing has languished under the influence of the pernicious habit of using ready-made \
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