Materia medica and therapeutics : an introduction to the rational treatment of disease / by J. Mitchell Bruce.

  • John Mitchell Bruce
Date:
1886
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    faith, nor remains a correct representation of profes- sional opinion for any great length of time. It is, however, an invaluable medium of communication between the physician and the pharmaceutical chemist, whom it furnishes with formulae for a great variety of preparations of definite composition, and an im- mense amount of information respecting drugs which is necessary in combining these, or in devising fresli preparations. Plan of the Materia Medica.—In the Pharma- copoeia the materise medicae and their preparations are arranged alphabetically for convenience of refer- ence, but in a systematic treatise they must be dis- cussed in natural order. The following plan will be adopted in these pages : Part I.—The Inoiiganic IMateria Medica. Group 1. Alkalies and Alkahne Earths. „ 2. The Metals. „ 3. The Non-metallic Elements. „ 4. Acids. „ 5. Water. „ 6. The Carhon Compounds. Part II.—The Organic Materia Medica. Group 1. The Vegetable Kingdom. „ 2. The Animal Eangdom. Each article will be discussed under several distinct and definite headings, which are as follows: The names of the drug, in Latin and in English, its chemical formula^ if any, and the definition of its nature; its source; its characters; its comjyosition; its doses; and the 'preparations made from it. A genera] reference must here be made to each of these headings.. Names, nature, and sources of drugs.—These are sufficiently indicated by the above plan in the case