The physiological and therapeutical action of the bromide of potassium and bromide of ammonium / by Edward H. Clarke and Robert Amory.

  • Edward Hammond Clarke
Date:
1872
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Credit: The physiological and therapeutical action of the bromide of potassium and bromide of ammonium / by Edward H. Clarke and Robert Amory. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Even at the present day, our Materia Medica is in a state of chaotic confusion ; and its history is merely a summary of the fruitless efforts of thousands of gifted men, searching as it were in the dark for the curative power of drugs. —James Rogers, M.D., The Present State of Therapeutics, p. 2. Our knowledge [of remedies], though augmented of late years by the wonderful advance of Organic Chemistry and Physiology, can scarcely yet be said to have passed the threshold of inquiry. We must avow that this whole department of medical knowl- edge, so important in all its bearings, is the one where most remains to be done to raise it to the character of a science. . . . Despite these difficulties, the scope and prospect of future attainment are ample and certain. — Sir Henry Holland, Medical Notes %7id Refections, pp. 21, 22.