General therapeutics, or Principles of medical practice : with tables of the chief remedial agents and their preparations : and of the different poisons and their antidotes / by Robley Dunglison.

  • Dunglison, Robley, 1798-1869.
Date:
1836
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    CONTENTS CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PRINCIPLES. Therapeutics defined—Instinctive action of recuperation—Importance of bearing it in mind in the treatment of disease—Cure by sympathy— Expectant medicine—Efforts of nature—Crises—Medical experience —Science of medicine demonstrative—Pre-eminence of Therapeutics —Therapeutical indications vary with Medical theories—Necessity of discovering the pathological lesion—Rational Therapeutics founded on rigid physiologico-pathological deduction—Importance of discover- ing the cause of the lesion—Etiology obscure. - 9 CHAPTER II. CIRCUMSTANCES THAT MODIFY THE THERAPEUTI- CAL INDICATIONS. Age—Sex—Original conformation—Habit—Climate—Mental affec- tions—Professions, and way of life—Causes, seat, period, &c, of the disease. ------ 26 CHAPTER III. OF MEDICINES. A medieine defined—General action of medicines—Various modes of action—By simple, direct or local action—By indirect or general action —Through the nerves—Through absorption—Through revulsion— Medicines divisible into Excitants and Sedatives—Classification of medicines—Barbier's Classification—A. T. Thomson's Classification —Author's Classification. .--.---65