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Pharmacologia; comprehending the art of prescribing upon fixed and scientific principles; together with the history of medicinal substances / By J.A. Paris.

  • John Ayrton Paris
Date:
1833
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Credit: Pharmacologia; comprehending the art of prescribing upon fixed and scientific principles; together with the history of medicinal substances / By J.A. Paris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A Abortion, prevented by suppositories of Opium, page 282 Absolute and relative remedies, meaning attached to the terms, 98 Absorbent medicines, why they check diarrheea, 116, 117 Absorbent system, specifically stimulated by Mercury, 137 Acetate of Potass, decomposed in transitu, and its alkaline base developed, 134 Acetification of Milk by a thunder storm bears some analogy to the operation of depraved digestion, 82 (note) Acids, ingenious explanation of their modus operandi, as Refrigerants, 162 - vegetable, undergo decomposition in the digestive organs, and are elabo- rated into chyle, 134 ~, their effects in cases of Narcotic poisoning, 194 Acrid, or Rubefacient poisons, the classi- fication of, 183 Acridness, Galen’s notion respecting the origin of, 29 Adjuvans the, in a medicinal formula, 254 Advice to the ultra chemist, which it is hoped may not be lost, 82 Adulteration of medicines, how exten- sively it is practised, 90 —_— - constitutes a regular branch of trade, 90 Aérial poisons, nature of, 182 fXtius collected a multitude of nostrums, 25 Affinities, usual, of bodies, suspended, mo- dified, or subverted, by the powers of digestion, 81 Afzelius, Dr. describes a shrub of the natural family of Contort@ which affords a curious exception to botanical affi- nities, 6] Ague, the celebrated Dutch remedy for the, 236 Air, its state in relation to moisture an important consideration in the cure of asthma, 149; its power of conducting heat affected by moisture, 150 Alcohol, its poisonous effects upon a rabbit, 188 whether absorbed into the circu- lation or not, still remains a question, 109 large doses of, act directly seda- tive, 108 Ale, the supposed lithonthryptic pro- perties of, 172 (note) Alexander Trallianus, his prescription for a gout medicine, 47 — his just notions on the subject of medicinal combination, 92 Alexandrian library, the lamentable con- sequence of its destruction, 69 burnt by the Caliph Omar, the cotemporary and companion of Mahomet, 69 (note) Alexipharmics, Alexiterials, Counter- poisons, or Antidotes, true meaning of the terms, 179 Alkali, original signification of the term, — Volatile, discovered by Basil Va- lentine, 73 Alkalies, distinction between the veget- able and mineral first established by Avicenna, 71 - fixed, formerly supposed to vary according to the plants from which they were produced, 79 - their agency as diuretics con- sidered, 133 - the great utility of in calculus, often independent of their chemical agency, 175 Alkaline salts, how conveyed to the kid- neys, 99 Almond, the wild parent of the peach, 89 Aloes, the chemical and medicinal in- fluence of Alkalies upon, 246 - their insolubility determines their specific action upon the intestines, 245 Aloétic preparations well calculated to correct the consequences of Opium, 230 Alterative medicines lose their efficacy by acting violently as evacuants, 228-9 Alternation of similar remedies recom- mended by Dr, Chapman, 213