A Systematic Treatise on Materia Medica and Therapeutics: With Reference to the Most Direct Action of Drugs (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Systematic Treatise on Materia Medica and Therapeutics: With Reference to the Most Direct Action of DrugsIn presenting this work to students and physicians, the author desires to state that although it covers the field considered by other writers, it presents in addition the more recent observations of the action of drugs, many of which have never before appeared in book form, and the author's personal observations. There has been a need for a revision of our literature on this subject for several years past, and for the addition thereto of the results of the more recent observations and experiences. Up to the present time our literature has contained the results of the application of the principles of direct therapeutics originally enunciated, but there has been an evolution - a development, a progressive knowledge - of these principles, which was anticipated and desired by Scudder, King and others, which should be embodied in our permanent literature. These advancements it has been the aim of the author to present in this book, and also to show the consistency, the homogeneous character, the unity and individuality as a whole, of our principles concerning the influence of drugs, as applied in the investigations made, and here recorded.It is possible that the confident expressions made in some cases concerning drug action may be received by many with incredulity, and it is possible also that the idea may have been expressed more strongly than the author intended, but to those who have had experience in prescribing the remedies here considered according to their specific symptomatology, after a careful, exact diagnosis of all the conditions of the disease for which prescribed, the confidence acquired by their successes will in most cases confirm the sanguine expressions of the author.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.