Handbook of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics, including the physiological action of drugs, the special therapeutics of disease, official and practical pharmacy, and minute directions for prescription writing / by Sam'l O.L. Potter.

  • Potter, Samuel O. L. (Samuel Otway Lewis), 1846-1914.
Date:
1894
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Handbook of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics, including the physiological action of drugs, the special therapeutics of disease, official and practical pharmacy, and minute directions for prescription writing / by Sam'l O.L. Potter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTION, 17 Materia Medica, 17 Pharmacy, 17 ^ * Therapeutics, 17 Empirical Therapeutics, 18 Rational Therapeutics, 18 Administration of Medicines, 20 Classification of Medicines, 23 Stimulants and Sedatives 23 Agents acting chiefly on the Nervous System, 24 Agents acting on the Organs of Special Sense, 28 Agents acting on Respiration, ....... 31 Agents acting on the Circulation, 33 Agents acting on the Digestive System, 34 Agents acting on Metabolism, 41 Agents acting on Excretion, 44 Agents acting on the Generative Apparatus, 47 Agents acting on the Cutaneous Surface, 49 Agents acting on Microbes, Ferments, etc., 52 Agents acting upon each other, 33 Dosage of Medicines, 33 PART I.—MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS, 57 Abrus to Zingiber, c PART II.—PHARMACY AND PRESCRIPTION WRITING, ... 431 Constituents of Vegetable Drugs. . a-,-, « ’ Weights and Measures, ... ' Metric Sy.stem, Approximate or Domestic Measures, . . . .... 438 Specific Gravity and Specific Volume, 433 Prescriptions, . , ’ 439 Analysis of a Prescription, Principles of Combination, Prescription Writing, ^2 Abbreviations, .... * ’ 44- ^ Prescription Blanks, Renewals,