The Action of Medicines in the System
by Frederick William Headland
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About this eBook
- Author
- Headland, Frederick William
- Title
- The Action of Medicines in the System Or, on the mode in which therapeutic agents introduced into the stomach produce their peculiar effects on the animal economy
- Credits
- Produced by Bryan Ness, Robert Morse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- RM: Medicine: Therapeutics, Pharmacology
- Subject
- Therapeutics
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 46745
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46745
- Release Date
- September 1, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE — ACTION OF MEDICINES — IN — THE SYSTEM; — Being the Prize Essay — BY — FREDERICK WILLIAM HEADLAND, B.A.,
- 2.CONTENTS.
- 3.A CLASSIFICATION OF MEDICINES WHICH ACT AFTER ENTERING INTO THE BLOOD, ACCORDING TO THEIR SUPPOSED MODES OF OPERATION.
- 4.CHAPTER I. — INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
- 5.CHAPTER II. — ON SOME OF THE MORE IMPORTANT CLASSIFICATIONS OF MEDICINES, AND OPINIONS OF AUTHORS RESPECTING THEIR ACTIONS. — I. Opinions concerning the ultimate Effect of Medicines, and Classifications founded on this. — II. Opinions concerning the Local Tendency of Medicines, and Classifications founded upon this . — III. Opinions concerning the Mode of Operation of Medicines, and Classifications founded on this.
- 6.CHAPTER III. — ON THE GENERAL MODES OF ACTION OF THERAPEUTIC AGENTS INTRODUCED INTO THE STOMACH. — Prop. I. — That the great majority of medicines must obtain entry into the blood, or internal fluids of the body, before their action can be manifested. — Prop. II. — That the great majority of medicines are capable of solution in the gastric or intestinal secretions, and pass without material change, by a process of absorption, through the coats of the stomach and intestines, to enter the capillaries of the Portal system of veins. — Prop. III. — That those medicines which are completely insoluble in water, and in the gastric and intestinal juices, cannot gain entrance into the circulation. — Prop. IV. — That some few remedial agents act locally on the mucous surface, either before absorption, or without being absorbed at all. That they are chiefly as follow: — — Prop. V. — That the medicine, when in the blood, must permeate the mass of the circulation, so far as may be required to reach the parts on which it tends to act. — Prop. VI. — That while in the blood, the medicine may undergo change, which in some cases may, in others may not, affect its influence. That these changes may be— — Prop. VII. — That a first class of medicines, called Hæmatics , act while in the blood, which they influence. That their action is permanent. — RESTORATIVES. — CATALYTICS. — Prop. VIII. — That a second class of medicines, called Neurotics , act by passing from the blood to the nerves or nerve-centres, which they influence. — STIMULANTS. — NARCOTICS. — SEDATIVES. — Prop. IX. — That a third class of medicines, called Astringents , act by passing from the blood to muscular fibre, which they excite to contraction. — Prop. X. — That a fourth class of medicines, called Eliminatives , act by passing out of the blood through the glands, which they excite to the performance of their functions .
- 7.CHAPTER IV.
- 8.GENERAL INDEX.
- 9.FOOTNOTES:
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