Veterinary medicines : their actions and uses / by Finlay Dun.

  • Dun, Finlay, 1830-1897.
Date:
1895
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Veterinary medicines : their actions and uses / by Finlay Dun. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / □ US n VETERINARY MEDICINES: THEIR ACTIONS AND USES. INTKOD.UCTION. Veterinary Materia Medica, in the extended sense of the term, treats of every agent, material or immaterial, which is used for the cure of disease or injury, or for the preservation of health, among the domesticated animals. The full consideration of so large and diversified a subject would, however, fill several volumes, and the present work is restricted to the description of medicines or drugs, their natural history characters, their phar- maceutical preparations, and their actions and uses among the domesticated animals. Medicines or drugs, although derived from the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms, possess many actions in common, and are prepared for use by similar chemical and pharmaceutical processes. Some general observations will, therefore, advantageously occupy two preliminary sections, the first devoted to Pharmacology—which treats of the actions of medicines—and to Therapeutics, or their uses in disease; and the second to Pharmacy, which deals with the preparation and dispensing of medicines. The description of the medicines themselves occupies the body of the volume. a