Notes on materia medica : pharmacology and therapeutics for dental students and practitioners / by Douglas Gabell and Harold Austen.

  • Gabell, Douglas (Douglas Phillimore)
Date:
1914
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    Relation between Imperial and Metric Systems. A few relations easy to remember, but approximate only :— 1 cub. centim. = m. xyij. err f(> 4 cub. centim. = f. 5 ]• 30 cub. centim. = f. 5 j. gr. j =6.5 milligrams, gr. jss =10 centigrams, gr. Ix 4 grammes. 5 j. (avoirdupoia) = 30 grammes, lb. j = \ kilogramme. PRESCRIBING. The art of selecting remedies and ordering them (either alone or in suitable combination) for the treatment of diseases. Usually embodied in a recognised written form called a prescription. The dentist is frequently called upon to prescribe a suitable mouth-wash (coUutorium) or dentifrice, and other local applications. Less frequently to order a purgative, gargle, or anti-neuralgic remedy. As a general rule, however, administration of internal remedies is best left to medical practitioners. Points to be considered in prescribing. i. Selection of the remedy or remedies most appro- priate to the case it is desired to treat when several are available. This is an important test, not only of pharmaco- logical knowledge, but also of the disease to be treated. Example.—In prescribing a mouth - wash the dentist should consider such points as whether it is specially required to deodorise the breath, exercise an astringent action on the mouth, act as an ant- acid, etc., and select the drugs accordingly. IT-