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PREFACE.

HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION.

SUPERSTITION.

CREDULITY.

SCEPTICISM.

FALSE THEORIES, AND ABSURD CONCEITS.

DEVOTION TO AUTHORITY, AND ESTABLISHED ROUTINE.

THE ASSIGNING TO ART THAT WHICH WAS THE EFFECT OF UNASSISTED NATURE, OR THE CONSEQUENCE OF INCIDENTAL CHANGES OF HABIT, DIET, &c.

AMBIGUITY OF NOMENCLATURE.

THE PROGRESS OF BOTANICAL SCIENCE.

THE APPLICATION AND MISAPPLICATION OF CHEMICAL SCIENCE.

THE INFLUENCE OF SOIL, CULTURE, CLIMATE, AND SEASON.

THE IGNORANT PREPARATION AND FRAUDULENT ADULTERATION OF MEDICINES.

THE UNSEASONABLE COLLECTION OF VEGETABLE REMEDIES.

THE OBSCURITY WHICH HAS ATTENDED THE OPERATION OF COMPOUND MEDICINES.

PHARMACOLOGIA. ON THE OPERATIONS OF MEDICINAL BODIES, AND ON THE CLASSIFICATIONS FOUNDED ON THEM.

CULLEN’S ARRANGEMENT OF THE MATERIA MEDICA.

CLASSIFICATION OF THE MATERIA MEDICA BY Dr. YOUNG.

CLASSIFICATION OF REMEDIES BY Dr. MURRAY.

1. GENERAL STIMULANTS.

LOCAL STIMULANTS.

III. OF CHEMICAL REMEDIES.

IV. OF MECHANICAL REMEDIES.

ON THE THEORY AND ART OF PRESCRIBING.

OF MEDICINAL COMBINATION.

AN ANALYSIS OF THE OBJECTS TO BE OBTAINED BY MIXING AND COMBINING MEDICINAL SUBSTANCES.

SOLID FORMS.

LIQUID FORMS.

A COLLECTION OF FORMULÆ INTENDED TO ILLUSTRATE THE FOREGOING PRECEPTS, and to furnish the inexperienced Prescriber WITH A SERIES OF USEFUL AND INSTRUCTIVE LESSONS .

Explanation of the Key Letters.

A SYNOPSIS OF THE Principles of Combination, AS INVESTIGATED IN THE PRECEDING PAGES, ARRANGED IN A TABULAR FORM SO AS TO AFFORD THE STUDENT AN EASY REFERENCE TO THE KEY LETTERS.

OBJECT I. TO PROMOTE THE ACTION OF THE BASIS.

OBJECT II. TO CORRECT THE OPERATION OF THE BASIS, BY OBVIATING ANY UNPLEASANT EFFECTS IT MIGHT BE LIKELY TO OCCASION, AND WHICH WOULD PERVERT ITS INTENDED ACTION, AND DEFEAT THE OBJECT OF ITS EXHIBITION.

OBJECT III. TO OBTAIN THE JOINT OPERATION OF TWO, OR MORE MEDICINES.

OBJECT IV. TO OBTAIN A NEW AND ACTIVE REMEDY, NOT AFFORDED BY ANY SINGLE SUBSTANCE.

OBJECT V. TO AFFORD AN ELIGIBLE FORM.

NARCOTICS.

ANTISPASMODICS.

TONICS.

AROMATIC STIMULANTS.

ASTRINGENTS.

EMETICS.

CATHARTICS.

EMMENAGOGUES.

DIURETICS.

DIAPHORETICS.

EXPECTORANTS.

SIALOGOGUES.

REFRIGERANTS.

ANTACIDS AND ABSORBENTS.

ANTILITHICS AND LITHONTHRYPTICS.

ANTHELMINTICS.

DEMULCENTS.

SUPPLEMENTARY FORMULÆ FOR CERTAIN REMEDIES NOT INCLUDED IN THE PHARMACOPŒIA.

OF THE MEDICINAL DYNAMETER.

PHARMACOLOGIA.

INDEX.

INDEX TO THE PATENT MEDICINES, AND NOSTRUMS, DESCRIBED IN THIS WORK.