Experimental pharmacology : a hand-book of methods for studying the physiological actions of drugs / by L. Hermann ; translated, with the author’s permission, with notes and additions, by Robert Meade Smith.

  • Smith Robert Meade.
Date:
1883
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Credit: Experimental pharmacology : a hand-book of methods for studying the physiological actions of drugs / by L. Hermann ; translated, with the author’s permission, with notes and additions, by Robert Meade Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    vance in our knowledge of the normal organism, and can hence be regarded as a step in the development of the science of physiology. Physiologists, therefore, rightly regard pharmacological investigation as one of the most important modes of advancing their science. Occasion- ally, also, pharmacology furnishes an instrument of experimentation of the most delicate character ; as an illustration of this we have only to mention curare, whose employment in pure physiology has been most fruitful of valuable results.1 1 [In this connection see Bernard’s valuable paper on “ Les poisons corame methode de vivisection,” in the Revue Scientifique, 1875.]