COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY P. BLAKISTON'S SON & Co. "Authority to use for comment the Pharmacopoeia of the United PRESS OF THE NEW ERA PRINTING COMPANY, LANCASTER, PA PREFACE. In revising White's Materia Medica and Therapeutics to bring it into harmony with the United States Pharmacopoeia so much additional matter has been introduced into the five American editions that it seemed advisable to re-write the book. The forthcoming revision of the Pharmacopoeia has given the opportunity. The many advances in the subjects here treated have necessitated the division of the work into two distinct parts; this, the first, being devoted to Materia Medica and Pharmacy and the second to Pharmacology and Therapeutics. It is hoped that this natural separation of the subjects will be acceptable to the physician and the student. In the present work full attention is given to pharmaceutical processes, to the various kinds of preparations, with their dosage, and to the art of prescribing; after which the description of remedies is taken up in detail. The list of therapeutic agents is divided into two main parts, under the heads of Inorganic and Organic Materia Medica, and the general classification adopted is one based on the grouping of the articles according to the class and chemical division or natural order to which each belongs. In order to make the book more complete, condensed descriptions of the action and therapeutic use of all the remedies have been appended. In the companion book to this, on Pharmacology and Therapeutics, an entirely different classification is employed, namely, one based on the particular parts upon which the various drugs or other agents principally act. There is a complete list of drugs and preparations, without special description, except as to dosage, and very elaborate accounts of their physiological action and therapeutics are given. In these descriptions the effort has been made to present the latest views of the highest authorities in these departments, and to render the book as practically useful as possible by full details regarding treatment. The two works combined offer, it is believed, a very complete and up-to-date" presentation of the whole subject of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. For valuable assistance, in revision and in proof-reading the author would acknowledge the esteemed services of DOCTOR P. BRYNBERG PORTER. THE AUTHOR. |