A treatise on human physiology : designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine / by John C. Dalton, Jr.

  • John Call Dalton
Date:
1866
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    JJEREIRA [JONATHAN), M.D., F.R.S. and L.S. MATERIA MEDICA AIS^D THERAPEUTICS; being an AMdg- ment of the late Dr. Pereira's Elements of Materia Meclica, arranged in conformity with the British Pharmacoposia, and adnpted to the use of Medical Practitioners, Chemists and Druggists, Medical and Pharmaceutical Students, &c. By F. J. Farre, M.D., Senior Physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and London Editor of the British Pharmacopoeia; assisted by Robert Bentley, M.R.C.S., Professor of Materia Medica and Botany to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain; and by Robert Warington, P.R.S., Chemical Operator to the Society of Apothecaries. With numerous additions and references to the United States Pharmacopoeia, by Horatio C. Wood, M.D., Professor of Botany in the University of Pennsylvania. In one large and handsome octavo volume of over 1000 closely printed pages, V7ith 236 illustrations, extra cloth, $7 00 ; leather, raised bands, $8 00. {Now Ready.) The very large size attained by the great work of Dr. Pereira, in its successive revisions, has seemed to render desirable an abridgment of it in which should be omitted the commercial and physical details which possessed more interest for the druggist than for the practitioner. In the effort at condensation, however, the English editors have confined the work almost wholly to the articles embraced in the British Pharmacopoeia, thus omitting much that is of primary importance to the American practitioner. The aim of Professor Wood has been to restore from Pereira's original work whatever may seem necessary, and to add notices of such American remedies as claim a place in a volume designed alike'for the student and physician. In this, he has had the advantage of the valuable notes of the former American editor. Professor Carson, and his additions will be found to constitute from one-fourth to one-third of the whole work. Their importance may be estimated from the fact that he has introduced notices of nearly one hundred articles not alluded to in the English edition, among which will b^ found detailed accounts of such remedies as Bismuthi Sub-Nitras, Monsell's Salt, Pyro-Phosphate of Iron, Iodide of Lead, Glauber Salts, Cyanide of Mercury, Pepsin, Prunus Virgini.ma, Eupatorium, Veratrum Viride, Apocynum, Tapioca, Arrow-Root, Sago, Euphorbium, Helleborus, Coffee, Spigelia, Salix, Rhus, Rubus, Ca- labar Bean, Succinium, etc. etc. The series of illustrations has been largely increased, and the object of the work will be to present a thorough and condensed view of the whole subject in its most modern aspect. Of the many works on Materia Medica which have appeared since Ihe issuing of the British Phaimaco- poeia, none will he more acceptable to the student and practitioner than the present. Pereira's JIateria tions of his predeces.sor's great work. That Dr. Farre has spared no endeavor to perform his task in every department, in the most perfect manner, may he al- ready inferred from the fact of his having associated Medica had long ago asserted for itself the position of , with himself in the work, the two distinguished gen- being the most complete work on the subject in the ! tlemea tvhose names appear with his own upon the English language. But its very completeness stood in the way of its success. Except in the way of refer- ence, or to tho-^e who made a special stndy of Materia Medica, Dr. Pereira's work was too full, and its pe- rusal required an amonnt of time which few had at their disposal. Dr Farrehas very judiciously availed himself of the opportunity of the publication of the new Pharmacopoeia, by bringing out an abridged edi- tion of the great work. This edition of Pereira is by BO means a mere abridged re-issue, but contains ma- ny improvements, both in the descriptive and thera- peutical departments. 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