A text-book of practical therapeutics : with especial reference to the application of remedial measures to disease and their employment upon a rational basis / by Hobart Amory Hare.

  • Hare, H. A. (Hobart Amory), 1862-1931.
Date:
1897
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    The Fourth Edition of this work having been called for in less than four years after the appearance of the first, the Author has taken advantage of the opportunity to rewrite and add to many of the articles on drugs, remedial measures, and diseases, and to insert practical information concerning the value and prescription of the really useful new remedies. Articles on Methylene Blue, Chloralose, Pyrogallol, Condurango, Convallaria, Duboisine, and other remedies have been added to the part of the work dealing with drugs. In the part dealing with Kemedial Measures other than Drugs articles have been written on Hypodermoclysis and Enteroclysis, Lavage, and upon Mineral Springs and Climatic Treatment. The latter article is not intended to be exhaustive, but to give the general practitioner an idea of the therapeutic value of certain well-known resorts, in order that he may offer rational advice to his patients as to where they should go in search of health. Several new articles in the part devoted to the Treatment of Individual Diseases have been inserted, and new or modified applications of the older remedies carefully noted throughout the entire book. Ir addition to these changes, the work has been revised in such a way as to render it uniform with the new U. S. Pharmacopoeia. As that authority directs the use of the metric system, the doses of all drugs are given in both Apothecaries' and Metric weights, thus (15 to 30 grains [1.0-2.0]), so that the physician may conveniently use either system, but it is to be clearly understood that where the doses ai-5 expressed in both systems, side by side, no attempt has been mace to make the metric amounts more than approximate the quantities given in Troy weight.