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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    MATEEIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS. INTRODUCTION. A COMPETENT, not to sayan accomplished, medical practitioner, must be able to recognise the appearances and indications of accident, the variations and deviations of function which constitute disease ; and having recognised them, must he familiar with the means of curinci or alleviatmg them. Anatomy and Physiology guide him to the former, and Surgery and Therapeutics furnish him with the latter, ihis knowledge when reduced to practice, consists merely in the application of remedies for the relief of scoring and the remov^ ot msease, and naturally resolves itself into Medicine and Surgery Put while comparatively few of us require the aid of the surgeon most of us wiR, sooner or later, he prostrated by disease. Therefore’ ot aU branches of medical knowledge, that which relates to the action and use of medicines is the most essential, because it admits of hv tar the widest application. Even the surgeon is poorly equipped if his knowledge be confined to hare manipulation. A bold and sMul operator, he may remove the disease effectually, and with of thrmeT,^^^ of risk to the patient; but if he be ignorant “oaiis of staying its origin and progress, or of relievincr attendant disturbances of the system, he wiU often be bafiied and Bot endeavours to cure the patient necessarv kntwferfor''f^^ ® if he la^ck this necessary knowledge; for he is not only powerless to do good but is Se wh^miX th do harm both by omission and ctmn^ission. ihose who pide the medical education of this country are much tn their resnonsilfib^ 7.? A’v • ^ estimate of iSdTTnS tn ^ remedies. Many, aeea, are inclined to regard rhubarb, julap, and the like, as im-