A practical treatise on materia medica and therapeutics : with especial reference to the clinical application of drugs / by John V. Shoemaker.

  • John Veitch Shoemaker
Date:
1896
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Credit: A practical treatise on materia medica and therapeutics : with especial reference to the clinical application of drugs / by John V. Shoemaker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In preparing a third edition of this work the author has taken the opportunity of combining into one the two volumes which had been separately^published, believing that the value of the book will be thus enhanced. The skill of chemists and the zeal of clinicians have, during the past two years, introduced many new preparations to the profession. New applications of the older remedies have also, in many instances, been discovered. Since the pub- lication of the second edition the field of usefulness of many medicinal substances has been greatly enlarged. Based upon increasing experience much additional matter has required insertion in the descriptions of acetanilid, antipyrin, creosote and its derivatives, hydrogen dioxide, salophen, trional, dermatol, new naphthol and phenol compounds, etc. Among the most recent compounds upon which new articles or sections have been written are tolysal, tolypyrin, salocoll, salacetol, chlorphenol, bromphenol, ethylendiamine silver phosphate, tropacocaine, formaldehyde and formalin, dulcin, tannigen, etc. The subject of treatment by means of animal extracts, secre- tions or juices, and immunized serum or antitoxines has been rewritten, and the endeavor has been made to give a fair pres- entation of the present state of knowledge concerning the value of these agencies in combating disease. The enumeration of preparations has been made to accord with the United States Pharmacopoeia of 1890, and the indexes have been thoroughly revised. The natural forces and physiological agencies discussed in this volume are of immense importance in therapeutics, and are often of more avail in the treatment of disease than medicinal substances and drugs. Philadelphia, 1519 Walnut Street, October 1, 1895. 0)