Syllabus of materia medical for the use of teachers and students : based on a selection or definition of subjects in teaching and examining and also on an estimate of the relative values of articles and preparations in the British Pharmacopœia with doses affixed / by Alexander Harvey and Alexander Dyce Davidson.

  • Harvey, Alexander, 1811-1889.
Date:
1873
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Credit: Syllabus of materia medical for the use of teachers and students : based on a selection or definition of subjects in teaching and examining and also on an estimate of the relative values of articles and preparations in the British Pharmacopœia with doses affixed / by Alexander Harvey and Alexander Dyce Davidson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO EDMUND A. PAEKES, M.D., E.R.S., F.E.C.P., Professor of Hygiene in the Army Medical School, Netley, Ac. Ac. My Dear Dr. Parkes, I cannot forbear again connecting your name with this booh —tiny though it be. Its purpose, as set forth in the Intro¬ duction, you already know ; and you were pleased, on occasion of its first appearance (in private) to give your cordial sanction to the principle it is based on. i We are glad to find that the book has met with a very general approval at the hands of Teachers and Students of Materia \Medica throughout the Kingdom. But what we have more at heart than this,—or than the success of the book, is, the Authoritative application, by the General Medical Council, and other Bodies concerned, of the principle of Selection or IDeeinition to all the branches of Medical study. Some movement in that direction is, we think, urgently palled for. Our existing system entails great hardships on students, and, no less (unavoidably on their part), great waste of time, and misapplication of effort. Believe me, Dear Dr. Parkes, With sincere regard, Very truly, yours, ALEX. HAEVEY. The University, Aberdeen, April 15, 187S.