Volume 1

The elements of materia medica and therapeutics / by Jonathan Pereira.

  • Jonathan Pereira
Date:
1849-1853
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    of proceeding will be found in the case of the Cyanides, the account of which will follow that of hydrocyanic acid, as their medicinal properties are for the most part derived from the cyanogen which they contain. In the present edition a new physiological classification of the articles composing the Materia Medica has been attempted,—with what success the author leaves others to judge. He would remind those who may disapprove of it, of the insuperable difficulties which stand in the way of a satisfactory and unobjectionable classification of medicines on a physiological basis; and he would say to the critic, in the language of Horace,— “ Si quid novisti rectius istis, Candidus imperti; si non, his utere mecum.” Finsbury Square, December 1848.