OF

MATERIA MEDICA, PHARMACY,

AND THERAPEUTICS,

INCLUDING THE

PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION OF DRUGS, THE SPECIAL THERA-
PEUTICS OF DISEASE, OFFICIAL AND PRACTICAL
PHARMACY, AND MINUTE DIRECTIONS FOR
PRESCRIPTION WRITING.

BY

SAM'L O. L. POTTER, A.M.,M.D.,M.R.C.P.Lond.,

PROFESSOR OF THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE AND CLINICAL MEDICINE IN THE COLLEGE

OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF SAN FRANCISCO; MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT OF ST. MARK'S

HOSPITAL: AUTHOR OF THE QUIZ-COMPENDS OF ANATOMY AND MATERIA

"

MEDICA, "AN INDEX OF COMPARATIVE THERAPEUTICS,'' SEVERAL ARTICLES

IN FOSTER'S "PRACTICAL THERAPEUTICS," AND SPEECH AND ITS

DEFECTS; FORMERLY A. A. SURGEON U. S. ARMY, AND
BRIGADE-SURGEON N. G OF CALIFORNIA.

SIXTH EDITION. FULLY REVISED AND GREATLY ENLARGED.

PHILADELPHIA:

P. BLAKISTON, SON & CO.

IOI2 WALNUT STREET.

Copyright, 1897,

BY P. BLAKISTON, SON & CO.

PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION.

This edition is one-eighth larger than its immediate predecessor, and is almost a new book, although retaining the general plan and the special features which have proved so acceptable in previous editions. The text has again been subjected to a thorough and critical revision, has been largely rewritten, and is greatly expanded by the introduction of new matter. Ninety-seven pages have been added, containing forty-six new articles and one hundred and seventy rewritten ones, besides many hundred sentences incorporated into the original text.

In the section on Materia Medica, etc., there have been inserted thirtythree new articles, including those on Cactus, Carbonic Acid, Formalin, Oil of Myrtle and Oxygen; also briefer notices of new preparations and remedies, such as Aseptol, Aseptolin, Borine, Bromelin, Dulcin, Ferratin, Kola, Lactophenin, Lycetol, Lysidin, Malakin, Migranin, Trikresol, Tannigen, Solanum, etc. SERUM-THERAPY has achieved such importance during the past two years that it cannot be ignored in any work which professes to keep abreast of the progress in therapeutics. The author has deemed this subject worthy of full though concise treatment, under the new titles Toxins, Antitoxins and Animal Extracts, in the first part of the book, and has inserted brief cross-references thereto under the appropriate disease-headings in the section on therapeutics.

The list of rewritten articles in the first part includes those on Acetanilid, Antipyrin, Aurum, Bismuth, Boric Acid, Caffea, Calcium, Cannabis, Chloral, Chloroform, Chlorine, Cinchona, Cod-liver Oil, Creosote, Duboisia, Grindelia, Hyoscyamus, Iodine, Magnesium, Nux Vomica, Opium, Paraldehyde, Phenacetin, Phosphorus, Physostigma, Pilocarpus, Pulsatilla, Sassafras, Sodium, Strontium and Tobacco. Besides these, the articles on Alcohol, Carbolic Acid and Digitalis were entirely rewritten for the fifth edition and may be ranked equally as new matter.

In the section on Therapeutics, new articles are inserted on Abasia, Acne Rosacea, Actinomycosis, Chyluria, Collapse, Tubercular Laryngitis, Tubercular Meningitis, Tubercular Peritonitis, Acute Tuberculosis, Tuberculous Affections and Myxoedema. One hundred and nineteen articles in this portion of the book have been rewritten, and the text of the section has been everywhere expanded by the incorporation of many hundred