A textbook of pharmacology and therapeutics, or, The action of drugs in health and disease / by Arthur R. Cushny.

  • Cushny, Arthur R. (Arthur Robertson), 1866-1926.
Date:
1903
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Credit: A textbook of pharmacology and therapeutics, or, The action of drugs in health and disease / by Arthur R. Cushny. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. Page. Introduction. ........... 17 Mode of action of drugs, stimulation, depression, irritation . . 20 Elective affinity of drugs, protoplasm poisons .... 22 Remote, local and general action ....... 23 Chemical composition and pharmacological action ... 24 Conditions modifying the effects of drugs ..... 25 Methods of administration ........ 30 Chemical characters of drugs ....... 34 Pharmacopoeias and pharmacopoeial preparations. ... 37 Classification of drugs ...41 PART I. ORGANIC SUBSTANCES WHICH ARE CHARACTERIZED CHIEFLY BY THEIR LOCAL ACTION .... 45 1. Demulcents ........... 45 2. Emollients ........... 49 3. Sugars and flavoring substances ....... 54 4. Simple bitters. .......... 56 4 5. Volatile oil series .......... 61 Flavoring agents and carminatives. ...... 66 Pepper group. .......... 72 Malodorous volatile oils. . . . . . . . .74 Genito-urinary disinfectants ........ 75 Uva ursi ........... 77 6. Skin irritants and counter-irritation. . . . . . .78 Turpentine oil group . . . . . . . . .86 Mustard. ........... 89 Cantharidin series .......... 90 7. Vegetable purgatives ......... 95 Purgative oils. .......... 99 Anthracene purgatives . . . . . . . . .100 Jalapin and colocynthin group ....... 105 8. Vegetable astringents—tannic acid group . . . . .111 9. Anthelmintics .......... 117 Male fern ........... 118 Cusso ............ 120 Granatum ........... 121 Santonin ..... ...... 122