BY THE SAME AUTHOR The Treatment of Disease.-A Manual of Practical Medicine. Fourth Edition, Carefully Revised and Enlarged. Octavo; xxv+1023 pages. Sold by Subscription. Cloth, $6.00; Half Morocco, $7.50. "After all is said, it is the treatment of the sick that most interests the physician, however much the theoretical, microscopical, and laboratory man may prate; and it is from a thorough and broad knowledge of therapeutics that the doctor must hope to build his success and reputation. The author acutely realizes this, and he knows the weak points in the practice of the average doctor; hence he never loses sight of the fact that he is writing a practical book for every-day men and for every-day use. uses very little space commending methods or drugs that the experienced physician knows are worthless in the condition under consideration; if there is anything to be said, he says it; if there is nothing to be said, he says nothing. It is the most direct and lucid guide to modern practice."-The Medical World. He A Manual of Fever Nursing.-A Text-Book for Nurses. Based upon a Course of Lectures delivered to the Nurses of St. Mark's Hospital, etc. Illustrated. Second Edition, Revised. Duodecimo; ix+ 229 pages. Cloth, $1.00. "The subject of this book is much more germane to the every-day legitimate duties of the nurse than those of many books for nurses that have been brought out in recent years. The author is not only a therapeutist of note but a trained writer; hence he treats the subject in the best possible way."-New York Medical Journal. P. BLAKISTON'S SON & CO. PHILADELPHIA. AND THERAPEUTICS INCLUDING PHARMACY AND PHARMACOLOGY BY REYNOLD WEBB WILCOX, M. A., M. D., LL. D., D. C. L. PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS Professor of MEDICINE (RETIRED) AT THE NEW YORK POST-GRADUATe medical scHOOL OF THE AMERICAN THerapeutic SOCIETY, OF THE MEDICAL ASSO- OF MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE, AND OF THE ASSOCIATION SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY Gift: Mrs. R. W. Wilcox 27 FEB 1937 A 22.C.1917.5 COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY P. BLAKISTON'S SON & Co. "The use in this volume of certain portions of the text THE MAPLE PRESS YORK PA The appearance of the United States Pharmacopoeia, IX, has necessitated a rewriting of the section devoted to Pharmacy and Materia Medica and a thorough revision of this volume, which treats of the official drugs and preparations only, and every effort has been made toward condensation so far as is compatible with clearness. In order that the subjects might be presented in one volume and all repetitions avoided, cross references have been inserted and an exhaustive index added for the convenience of physicians who use this as a book for reference. The many advances have necessitated the division of the work into two distinct parts, the first being devoted to Materia Medica and Pharmacy, in which 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 therapeutic agents are divided into two sections, the Inorganic and Organic Materia Medica, and the general classification adopted is one based on the grouping of the articles according to the chemical or physiological divisions to which each belongs. The course of instruction on Materia Medica should include the performance of the simpler pharmaceutical operations, demonstrations of the drugs and preparations, and practice in prescription writing. It is believed best that the substance should be learned first and then its uses. the second part, dealing with Pharmacology and Therapeutics, the classification employed is based on the particular physiological system upon which the various agents principally act. There is a compete presentation of the official remedies and very elaborate accounts of their pharmacological action and therapeutic uses. 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 which have been found to be valuable in actual practice. The course on Pharmacology and Therapeutics should include In |