Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Practical Therapeutics: Including Materia Medica and Prescription Writing, With a Description of the Most Important New and Nonofficial Remedies Passed Upon by the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Association
The purpose Of this book is to present a brief summary of the physiological actions of drugs, with particular emphasis being given to their clinical applications; to show the importance of simple, rational prescribing, based (wherever possible) on known physiological actions; and to indicate the limitations, as well as the value of drugs in the treatment of disease. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
