Royle's manual of materia medica and therapeutics : including the preparations of the British pharmacopoeia and other approved medicines / by John Harley.

  • Harley, John, 1833-1921.
Date:
1876
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Credit: Royle's manual of materia medica and therapeutics : including the preparations of the British pharmacopoeia and other approved medicines / by John Harley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    observed in the healthy condition. Thus in certain morbid con- ditions of the liver, Kiihne found that benzoic acid did not undergo its usual transformation into hippuric acid. Observations such as this last cast a hopeful ray of light on the study of Therapeutics, which is as yet in its infancy. When we know completely the action of medicines on the system, we shall be able to apply them as measm'es of healthy function (see conium), and to use them, both as physiological tests of the presence and locality of disease, and at the same time, as intelligible remedies for its relief. The mind cannot find nobler occupation than this, for it combines the highest science with the most practical expression of good-will to man and the domestic animals.