Elements of pharmacy, materia medica, and therapeutics / by William Whitla.

  • Whitla, William, 1851-1933.
Date:
1898
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Credit: Elements of pharmacy, materia medica, and therapeutics / by William Whitla. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BY THE SAME AUTHOR. CROWN OCTAVO, CLOTH, PP. I,000. THIRD EDITION. l6/-. 1896. London : HENRY RENSHAW, 356, Strand. 0 Dictioiiari] of Treatment OR THERAPEUTIC INDEX; INCLUDING MEDICAL & SURGICAL THERAPEUTICS. The aim of this work is to furnish to the busy practitioner, in one handy volume, a series of short but complete articles upon the treatment of every Medical and Surgical Disease, including Skin, Eye and Ear, and Gynaecological Therapeutics. It is arranged alphabetically, so that at a glance all the recognised methods of treating any affection can be seen. Its size is such as will permit of its being carried in the physician's instrument bag, or kept within convenient range for speedy reference. It is also designed to be a bed-side book for the hospital student, who will always find it impossible to read up the treatment of every case in the various standard text-books of specialists. Professor Whitla's Dictionary of Treatment is intended to be a sup- plement or companion to his well-known Manual of Pharmacy^ Materia Medica, and Therapeutics. The result is the production of a book of nearly a thousand pages in small type containing perhaps more actual information about treatment than any other English work on Medicine or Surgery. The plan of the book is indeed new. It is a dictionary of treatment. Coming next, to the actual substance of the work, we find that it consists, as we have already said, of an enormous mass of information. Indeed, we have to com- plain of a very embarras de richesses. The Dictionary of Treatment as it now appears is a remarkable monument of industrious reading, intelligent reflection, and extensive practical experience. The range of subjects through every province of disease and even of injury is astonishing in these days of specialism. Professor Whitla may be proud of this handsome embodiment of his knowledge of the use of medicines.—The Practitioner. [over.