Royle's manual of materia medica and therapeutics : including the preparations of the British pharmacopoeia and other approved medicines / by John Harley.

  • Harley, John, 1833-1921.
Date:
1876
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Credit: Royle's manual of materia medica and therapeutics : including the preparations of the British pharmacopoeia and other approved medicines / by John Harley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    VI PREFACE. consulted, and from these, and other sources, all materials and compounds of accredited utility and advantage have been intro- duced and examined. The text is further illustrated by 26 new figures. A large space, occupied in previous Editions by details which are to he found in elementary works on Botany, has been appropriated to an account of the actions of medicines, and in effecting this the Editor has embodied the results of his own observations. Those who look for the results of experi- ments on mutilated animals, in the following pages, will not find them, for the Editor is satisfied that this is not legitimate Therapeutical inquiry, and that nothing short of a patient survey of the operation of a drug in the entire body in health, and under the variable influence of disease, can furnish the data upon which we may build a proper theory of its action. Those whose attainments do not extend to natm’al science, and who look for a cut-and-dried system of Therapeutics, will perhaps find in the few pages devoted to the classification of remedies sufficient to satisfy their wants; hut it is hoped that the majority of those who use the work will he ready to acquiesce in an arrangement which has the advantages of natural association, and the sanction of custom. 78 Upper Berkeley Street, PoRTMAN Square. W., Deceniber 1875.