Elements of pharmacy, materia medica, and therapeutics / by William Whitla.

  • Whitla, William, 1851-1933.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Elements of pharmacy, materia medica, and therapeutics / by William Whitla. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PHARMACY. INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER I. The words Materia Medica imply a description of the agents used in the treatment of disease, their preparation, actions, and uses ; but owing to the rapid advance made in our know- ledge of remedies, special terms are being daily used to designate the different departments in this extensive subject, and we confine the words Materia Medica to the description of remedies, Pharmacy to their preparation, * Pharmacology to the science of their action on a healthy organism, and Therapeutics to their application in the treatment of disease. The term Materia Medica, even so restricted in its applica- tion, embraces Botany, Zoology, and Chemistry, and, indeed, is built up of these sciences. * Phahmacology.—To this word we no longer assign the old signi- ficance which it bore as a mere synonym of Materia Medica. It now implies the science of the action of remedies, and it accordingly deals with the modifications produced in healthy conditions by the operation of substances capable of producing modification.—Professor Fraser, International Medical Congi'ess, August, 1881. A