A manual of organic materia medica : being a guide to materia medica of the vegetable and animal kingdoms for the use of students, druggists, pharmacists, and physicians / by John M. Maisch.

  • John Michael Maisch
Date:
1882
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Credit: A manual of organic materia medica : being a guide to materia medica of the vegetable and animal kingdoms for the use of students, druggists, pharmacists, and physicians / by John M. Maisch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    concerned, is due to the close chemical and physio- logical relations of the different parts of the same species, and in many instances of the different plants belonging to the same natural order. 4. But the primary object of Pharmacognosy or Materia Medica, as more especially adapted to the needs of the Pharmacist and the Druggist, is to enable us to recognize drugs, to determine their quality, to detect their adulteration, and to distin- guish the characteristic elements of those which are closely allied. Organic drugs which resemble one another in physical and structural properties are thus naturally brought together; and the special proper- ties of each are made the more prominent by com- parison. Classifications based on these considerations have been elaborated by Berg, Schleiden, Fluckiger, Wigand, and others, and for more than a quarter of a century such a system has formed the basis of instruction in Materia Medica in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. We have found it useful and instructive, and, with such modifications as we have thought desirable, we have adopted it in this work. The medical properties and doses of the various drugs are briefly presented simply as matters of im- portant information ; but it is not the design of this treatise to give instruction in their therapeutical application.