Volume 1

The elements of materia medica : comprehending the natural history, preparation, properties, composition, effects and uses of medicines / by Jonathan Pereira, F.R.S. & L.S.

  • Pereira, Jonathan, 1804-1853.
Date:
1839-1840
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    Again, mercury is by several writers (as Drs. Cullenk, Chapman* 1, Young®, and Eberle) placed in the class of sialogogues ; by many (as Dr, A. T. Thomson0, MM. Edwards and Vavasseurp, and MM. Trous- seau and Pidouxq) among excitants; by some (as Conradi, Bertele, and Horn r) it is considered to be sedative; by one (Dr. Wilson Philips) to be stimulant in small doses, and sedative in large ones ; by some (as Dr. John Murray1) it is placed among tonics; by another (Vogtu) among the resolventia alterantia ; by one (Simdelin x) among the lique- facients (verfl'ussigende Mittel) ; by the followers of Broussais (as Beginy) among revulsives ; by the Italians (as Giacomini2) among contra-stimu- lants or hyposthenics; by others (as Barbieraa) among the incertce sedis!! The author is fully aware of the objections which some will be dis- posed to raise to the natural-historical and chemicab details contained in this work. But, with due deference to the opinions of others, he thinks the absence of these subjects would render the present volume incom- plete. A knowledge of them, it is true, is not essential to the successful practice of our profession ; but surely a physician null not make a worse practitioner because he is acquainted with the natural history and chemistry of the agents he is employing in the. treatment of disease. The author is not ambitious to raise into unnecessary importance these topics ; yet he cannot help expressing his belief, that they, who are the loudest in decrying the value and utility of natural history and chemistry k Op. cit. 1 Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. 2 vols. 4th ed. Philadelphia. 1825. m An Introduction to Medical Literature; art. Pharmacology. 2d ed. London. 1823, n Treatise on Materia Medica and Therapeutics. 2 vols. 2d ed. Philadelphia. 1825. * 0 Op. cit. p Manuel de Matiere Medicate, Paris. 1831. q TraiU de Thirapeutique, tom. i. Paris. 1836. r Quoted by Richter (Ausf uhrliche Arzneimittellehre, Bd. v. 307. 1830). * On the Influence of Minute Doses of Mercury. London. 1834. 1 Op. cit. u Lehrbuch der Pharmakodynamik. 2 Bd. 2tc Aufl. Giessen. 1828. x Handbuch der Speciellen Heilmittellehre. 3tc Aull. Berlin. 1833. y Traits de Therapeutique. Paris. 1825. 1 TrattatofilosoflcospcrimentaledeiSoccorsiTcrapeutici. Padova. 1833. ** Op. cit.