Handbook of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics : including the physiological action of drugs, the special therapeutics of disease, official and practical pharmacy, and minute directions for prescription writing / by Sam'l O.L. Potter.

  • Samuel Otway Lewis Potter
Date:
1897
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Credit: Handbook of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics : including the physiological action of drugs, the special therapeutics of disease, official and practical pharmacy, and minute directions for prescription writing / by Sam'l O.L. Potter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    NOTICES OF THE PRESS OF PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF DR. POTTER’S HANDBOOK. From the Af?terican Journal of the Medical Sciences : r very skilfully steered his course between the pessimism that marks a system of therapeutics based solely on the results given by experiments and observations in the chemical and physiological laboratories, and the optimism of hasty empirical general- izations upon meagre clinical data, and upon this we consider that the greatest claim can be made, that this book is a safe one for the junior practitioner. . . . The author then, has fully attained the purpose which he set before him at the commencement.” From the Medical Record : “ Tins is an old and valued friend which needs no commendation, much less an introduction. It ought to be in the library of every physician and student. It is the most convenient and most concise work on therapeutics and materia medica in the English language, and is at the same time thoroughly reliable. Though necessarily largely a compilation, nevertheless there is much that is original, the author being one of the most prominent of American therapeutists.’’ Fro7n the Australasian Medical Gazette : “We have pleasure in commending the fourth edition of this excellent work to our readers. It is a monument of persistent industry. There is no better book in the English language for the student and practitioner. . . . Dr. Potter’s book is thor- oughly practical, and Part III contains an enormous amount of information, for which the student ought to be grateful. . . . The chapter on prescriptions is especially well done, in fact the best we have seen. ” From the Journal of the American Medical Association : “ Dr. Potter has embodied many original ideas in the preparation of this work, some, if not all of which will prove of very great value to the reader.” From the Medical Bulletin : “The author’s statements are concise, exact, compact, and his diction faultless; no one, perhaps, in this country at least, excels him in the perspicuity of his condensations and the completeness of his work in respect to the many details involved in authorship.” From the New York Medical Journal: “ Dr. Potter’s Handbook will find a place, and a very important one, in our colleges and the libraries of our practitioners. It contains almost everything that can be found in the larger works in a more concise form and brought up to a rather more recent date. . . . Under the head of prescription writing considerable attention is paid to the subject of in- compatibilities, and the student will here find many valuable hints for his guidance in this difficult subject. Besides this, there are, under the head of special therapeutics, very many formulas for the treatment of particular diseases and abnormal conditions, arranged alphabetically for easy reference. This will be especially valuable to young practitioners, and will frequently save the trouble of looking through large works and monographs for suitable formulas in the treatment of special cases. This department is fuller in this book than in any with which we are acquainted.” From the Therapeutic Gazette : “ The author has aimed to embrace in a single volume the essentials of practical materia medica and therapeutics, and has produced a book small enough for easy carriage and easy reference, large enough to contain a carefully-digested, but full, clear, and well- arranged mass of information. No new remedy of any acknowledged value is omitted from this list. Under each the section on physiological action and therapeutics has been written with care. ... In the enumeration of drugs suited to different disorders a very successful effort at discrimination has been made, both in the stage of disease and in the cases peculiarly suited to the remedy. It is no mere list of diseases followed by a catalogue of drugs, but is a digest of modern therapeutics, and as such will prove of immense use to its possessor.” ***The price of this book is j|4.5o, net, in cloth binding, or ^5.50, net, in full leather; for which it will be delivered free to any address. Thumb Index in each copy.
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