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Table of Contents

The principal affirmations which I have to make on this subject are divisible into Ten Propositions, as seen in the Table of Contents.

The first four of these concern the general conduct of medicines after their introduction into the stomach, and before their passage into the blood. Some broad rules are laid down by which the course which they take must be determined. The action of some few on the mucous membrane is also defined.

The remaining six propositions treat of the subsequent behaviour of those medicines which pass into the blood and fluids of the body. Of these, the fifth specifies their general course. The sixth states that they may undergo certain changes in the system. And the concluding four treat of the various modes in which these agents may operate in the cure of disease.

The first proposition lays down the great fundamental rule of the action of medicines through the medium of the blood and fluids.