Pharmacologia

About this eBook

Author

Paris, John Ayrton, 1785-1856

Title

Pharmacologia Fourth American, from the Seventh London Edition

Credits

Produced by Richard Tonsing, Sonya Schermann, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

RS: Medicine: Pharmacy and materia medica

Subject

Pharmacognosy

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 62958

Release Date

August 17, 2020

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.PHARMACOLOGIA. FOURTH AMERICAN, FROM THE SEVENTH LONDON EDITION .
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION. — SUPERSTITION. — CREDULITY. — SCEPTICISM. — FALSE THEORIES, AND ABSURD CONCEITS. — DEVOTION TO AUTHORITY, AND ESTABLISHED ROUTINE. — THE ASSIGNING TO ART THAT WHICH WAS THE EFFECT OF UNASSISTED NATURE, OR THE CONSEQUENCE OF INCIDENTAL CHANGES OF HABIT, DIET, &c. — AMBIGUITY OF NOMENCLATURE. — THE PROGRESS OF BOTANICAL SCIENCE. — THE APPLICATION AND MISAPPLICATION OF CHEMICAL SCIENCE. — THE INFLUENCE OF SOIL, CULTURE, CLIMATE, AND SEASON. — THE IGNORANT PREPARATION AND FRAUDULENT ADULTERATION OF MEDICINES. — THE UNSEASONABLE COLLECTION OF VEGETABLE REMEDIES. — THE OBSCURITY WHICH HAS ATTENDED THE OPERATION OF COMPOUND MEDICINES.
5. 5.PHARMACOLOGIA. ON THE OPERATIONS OF MEDICINAL BODIES, AND ON THE CLASSIFICATIONS FOUNDED ON THEM. — CULLEN’S ARRANGEMENT OF THE MATERIA MEDICA. — CLASSIFICATION OF THE MATERIA MEDICA BY Dr. YOUNG. — CLASSIFICATION OF REMEDIES BY Dr. MURRAY. — 1. GENERAL STIMULANTS. — NARCOTICS. — ANTISPASMODICS. — TONICS. — AROMATICS. — ASTRINGENTS. — LOCAL STIMULANTS. — EMETICS. — CATHARTICS: — EMMENAGOGUES: — DIURETICS: — DIURETICS, — 1. By diminishing arterial action, and increasing that of Absorption. — DIAPHORETICS. — DIAPHORETICS — EXPECTORANTS. — A CLASSIFICATION OF EXPECTORANTS, — SIALOGOGUES; — ERRHINES, or STERNUTATORIES: — EPISPASTICS. Vesicatories. Blisters. — ISSUES ( Fonticuli ) and Setons ( Setacea [176] ). — III. OF CHEMICAL REMEDIES. — REFRIGERANTS. — ANTACIDS: — ANTILITHICS and LITHONTHRYPTICS. — ANTIDOTES. — ESCHAROTICS: [232] — IV. OF MECHANICAL REMEDIES. — ANTHELMINTICS: — DEMULCENTS: — DILUENTS: — EMOLLIENTS:
6. 6.ON THE THEORY AND ART OF PRESCRIBING. — OF MEDICINAL COMBINATION. — AN ANALYSIS OF THE OBJECTS TO BE OBTAINED BY MIXING AND COMBINING MEDICINAL SUBSTANCES. — I. TO PROMOTE THE ACTION OF THE BASIS, OR PRINCIPAL MEDICINE. — II. TO CORRECT THE OPERATION OF THE BASIS, BY OBVIATING ANY UNPLEASANT EFFECTS IT MIGHT BE LIKELY TO OCCASION, AND WHICH WOULD PERVERT ITS INTENDED ACTION, AND DEFEAT THE OBJECTS OF ITS EXHIBITION. — III. TO OBTAIN THE JOINT OPERATION OF TWO OR MORE MEDICINES. — IV. TO OBTAIN A NEW AND ACTIVE REMEDY NOT AFFORDED BY ANY SINGLE SUBSTANCE. — V. TO AFFORD AN ELIGIBLE FORM. — RULE. — SOLID FORMS. — PULVERES. Powders. — PILULÆ. Pills. — TROCHISCI. Troches , or Lozenges . — SUPPOSITORIA. Suppositories. — ELECTUARIA. Electuaries. — LIQUID FORMS. — MISTURÆ. Mixtures. — ENEMATA. Clysters. [304] — INJECTIONES. — INHALATIONES. Inhalations. — REMEDIES OF EXTERNAL APPLICATION. — LOTIONES: — CATAPLASMATA. [310] Poultices , or Pultices . — EMPLASTRA. L.E.D. Plasters.
7. 7.A COLLECTION OF FORMULÆ INTENDED TO ILLUSTRATE THE FOREGOING PRECEPTS, and to furnish the inexperienced Prescriber WITH A SERIES OF USEFUL AND INSTRUCTIVE LESSONS . — Explanation of the Key Letters.
8. 8.A SYNOPSIS OF THE Principles of Combination, AS INVESTIGATED IN THE PRECEDING PAGES, ARRANGED IN A TABULAR FORM SO AS TO AFFORD THE STUDENT AN EASY REFERENCE TO THE KEY LETTERS. — OBJECT I. TO PROMOTE THE ACTION OF THE BASIS. — OBJECT II. TO CORRECT THE OPERATION OF THE BASIS, BY OBVIATING ANY UNPLEASANT EFFECTS IT MIGHT BE LIKELY TO OCCASION, AND WHICH WOULD PERVERT ITS INTENDED ACTION, AND DEFEAT THE OBJECT OF ITS EXHIBITION. — OBJECT III. TO OBTAIN THE JOINT OPERATION OF TWO, OR MORE MEDICINES. — OBJECT IV. TO OBTAIN A NEW AND ACTIVE REMEDY, NOT AFFORDED BY ANY SINGLE SUBSTANCE. — OBJECT V. TO AFFORD AN ELIGIBLE FORM. — NARCOTICS. — ANTISPASMODICS. — TONICS. — AROMATIC STIMULANTS. — ASTRINGENTS. — EMETICS. — CATHARTICS. — EMMENAGOGUES. — DIURETICS. — DIAPHORETICS. — EXPECTORANTS. — SIALOGOGUES. — REFRIGERANTS. — ANTACIDS AND ABSORBENTS. — ANTILITHICS AND LITHONTHRYPTICS. — A. In the Lithic Acid Diathesis. — B. In the Phosphatic Diathesis. — ANTHELMINTICS. — DEMULCENTS. — SUPPLEMENTARY FORMULÆ FOR CERTAIN REMEDIES NOT INCLUDED IN THE PHARMACOPŒIA.
9. 9.OF THE MEDICINAL DYNAMETER.
10. 10.PHARMACOLOGIA.
11. 11.INDEX.
12. 12.INDEX TO THE PATENT MEDICINES, AND NOSTRUMS, DESCRIBED IN THIS WORK.

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