laboratory and clinical demonstrations in the use of remedial agents. The index of Symptoms and Diseases should be used for prescribing only after reference to the individual remedies and their indications in order that the method of their employment and the especial condition and period for which they are useful may be accurately determined. This volume offers to the medical student and to the practitioner, it is believed, a very complete presentation of the resources at our command, (Materia Medica), how they act (Pharmacology), and, finally, how to employ them (Therapeutics). PAGE Class II.-Drugs Acting Chiefly on the Spinal Cord. A. Drugs which Excite the Anterior Cornua. B. Drugs which Depress the Anterior Cornua Class III.-Drugs Acting Chiefly on the Nerves . A. Drugs which Depress the Sensory Nerves. B. Drugs which Stimulate the Secretory Nerves II. Drugs whose Main Action is on the Heart . Class I. The Digitalis Group, Decreasing the Fre- Class II.-The Aconite Group, Decreasing the Fre- quency and Force of the Beat of the Heart. |