A new systematic table of the materia medica : with a preliminary dissertation, historical, critical, and explanatory, on the operation of medicines / [Andrew Ure].

  • Andrew Ure
Date:
1813
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Credit: A new systematic table of the materia medica : with a preliminary dissertation, historical, critical, and explanatory, on the operation of medicines / [Andrew Ure]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    $ I curred to me, in the progress of writing, that a methodical distribution on just principles, with a commentary prefixed, might be a con- venient manual to the practitioner; enabling him by a rapid inspection, to call to mind, and compare the various succedanea to any medi- cine, which had disappointed expectation. The grounds on which the Table was framed, are briefly stated in the preliminary essay. If they be well founded, and unconnected, as I believe they are, with any Pathological hypothesis, the classification ought to exhibit at one view, all the principal medicines really each groupe, in the order of their efficacy. On the justness of this progression, I antici- pate a variety of opinion. With regard to the number of the articles, it has been my wish to steer a middle course—to avoid credulity and scepticism—neither extending the list with frivolous substances, nor omitting others, which, though not greatly confided in, may be occasionally resorted to with some advan- tage. I beg, finally, to present this work to your
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