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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    PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION. This edition is one-eighth larger than its immediate predecessor, and is almost a new book, although retaining the general plan and the special features which have proved so acceptable in previous editions. The text has again been subjected to a thorough and critical revision, has been largely rewritten, and is greatly expanded by the introduction of new matter. Ninety-seven pages have been added, containing forty-six new articles and one hundred and seventy rewritten ones, besides many hundred sentences incorporated into the original text. In the section on Materia Medica, etc., there have been inserted thirty- three new articles, including those on Cactus, Carbonic Acid, Formalin, Oil of Myrtle and Oxygen ; also briefer notices of new preparations and remedies, such as Aseptol, Aseptolin, Borine, Bromelin, Dulcin, Ferratin, Kola, Lactophenin, Lycetol, Lysidin, Malakin, Migranin, Trikresol, Tannigen, Solanum, etc. Serum-therapy has achieved such importance during the past two years that it cannot be ignored in any work which professes to keep abreast of the progress in therapeutics. The author has deemed this subject worthy of full though concise treatment, under the new titles Toxins, Antitoxins and Animal Extracts, in the first part of the book, and has inserted brief cross-references thereto under the appro- priate disease-headings in the section on therapeutics. The list of rewritten articles in the first part includes those on Ace- tanilid. Antipyrin, Aurum, Bismuth, Boric Acid, Caffea, Calcium, Can- nabis, Chloral, Chloroform, Chlorine, Cinchona, Cod-liver Oil, Creosote, Duboisia, Grindelia, Hyoscyamus, Iodine, Magnesium, Nux Vomica, Opium, Paraldehyde, Phenacetin, Phosphorus, Physostigma, Pilocarpus, Pulsatilla, Sassafras, Sodium, Strontium and Tobacco. Besides these, the articles on Alcohol, Carbolic Acid and Digitalis were entirely re- written for the fifth edition and may be ranked equally as new matter. In the section on Therapeutics, new articles are inserted on Abasia, Acne Rosacea, Actinomycosis, Chyluria, Collapse, Tubercular Laryngitis, Tubercular Meningitis, Tubercular Peritonitis, Acute Tuberculosis, Tuber- culous Affections and Myxoedema. One hundred and nineteen-articles in this portion of the book have been rewritten, and the text of the sec- tion has been everywhere expanded by the incorporation of many hundred
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