A compend of the diseases of the eye and refraction : including treatment and surgery / by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle.

  • Gould, George M. (George Milbry), 1848-1922.
Date:
1899
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Credit: A compend of the diseases of the eye and refraction : including treatment and surgery / by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Seventh Revised Edition. A UN I QUE BOOK. POTTER'S MATERIA MEDICA, PHARMACY, AND THERA- PEUTICS. Seventh Edition, Enlarged and Revised. A Hand- Ijook, including the Physiological Action of Drugs, Special Therapeutics of Disease, Official and Practical Pharmacy, Prescription Writing, etc. Ey Sam'l O. L. Potter, m.a., m.d.. Professor of the Principles' and Practice of Medicine and Clinical Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, San Francisco, etc. Octavo. 929 pages. Thumb Index. Cloth, net, ^5.00 ; Leather, net, $6.00 This edition contains much new material under the headings Albumin, Animal Extracts, Antitoxins. Dr. Potter has become well known as an able compiler by his Compends of Anatomy and of Materia Medica, both of which have reached six editions. In this book, more elaborate in its design, he has shown his literary abilities to much better advantage, and all who examine or use it will agree that he has produced a work containing more correct information in a practical, concise form than any other publication of the kind. The plan of the work is new, and its contents have been combined and arranged in such a way that it offers a compact statement of the subject in hand. Part I.—M.^teria Medica and Therapeutics, the drugs being arranged m alphabetical order, with the synonym of each first; then the description of the plant. Us preparations, its antidotes and antagonists, physiological action and, lastly, its Therapeutics. This part is preceded by a general Introduction and a section on the classification of medicines as follows : Agents acting on the Nervous System, Organs of Sense, Respiration, Circulation, Digestive System, on Metabolism (including Restoratives, Alteratives, Astringents Antipyretics, Antiphlogistics, and Antiperiodics, etc.). Agents acting upon Excretion, the Generative System, the Cutaneous Surfaces, Microbes and l<erments, and upon each other. Part II.—Pharmacy and Prescription Writing. Written for the use of physicians who put up their own prescriptions. It includes—Weights and Measures, English and the Metric Systems. Specific Gravity and Volume 1 rescriptions : Their principles and combinations ; proper methods of writing them ; abbreviations used, etc. Stock solutions and preparations, such as a doctor should have to compound his own prescriptions. Incompatibility. Pharmaceutical and Therapeutical. Liquid, Solid, and Gaseous Extempo- raneous Prescriptions. ' Part III.—Special Therapeutics, an alphabetical List of Diseases—a real Index oe DiSEA.SES-giving the drugs that have been found serviceable in each disease, and the authority recommending the use of each ; a very im- portant feature, as it gives an authoritative character that is unusual in vvorks on 1 herapeutics, and displays an immense amount of research. 600 prescrin tions are given in this part, many being over the names of eminent men. wiIh,Li^'Fn!!lUK^ °^ P'^™^^^' abbreviations, with their English e(iuivalents, u.sed in medicine, Genitive Case Endings, etc 36 I'ormute for Hypodermic Injections; a comparison of 10 Formuhx of AS/rf^-J^^rl^T^ prominent patent medicines; Poisons and their Antidotes ; Differential Diagnosis; Notes on Temperature in Disease ; Clinica Examination of Unne; Table of Specific Gravities and Volumes; Tab e showing the number of drops in a fluidrachm of various liquids and th^ weight of one fluidrachm m grams, and a table for converting apothecaries' weiSs and measures into grams. ' -^''^^ weigiiis