Excerpt from A Manual of Practical Therapeutics: Considered With Reference to Articles of the Materia Medica During the two and thirty years which have elapsed since the First Edition of this Manual made its appearance, Therapeutics, both in theory and practice, have undergone many important changes, and advanced with rapid strides, in common with other branches of Medical Science. These have been set forth in each successive Edition, bringing the information in each case, as far as possible, up to date. In order to accomplish this without unduly increasing the size of the volume, much matter contained in each preceding Edition had to be curtailed, or omitted altogether, this involving the necessity of re-writing the greater portion of the volume. In the present issue, the same mode of procedure has been followed out. In order to obtain space for even brief notices of the vast array of new remedies which have, of late years, been introduced into practice, to notice even concisely the novel and extended uses to which time-honored and established remedies have been applied, and to incorporate the principal changes made in the last Pharmacopoeia, it has been found necessary to omit Part II, so far as classes of Medicine are concerned, and other portions of the same part which it seemed desirable to retain have been transferred to the body of the work; thus, stimulants have been transferred to Alcohol, Anaesthetics to Chloroform, and Blisters to Cantharides. In addition to this, it was found necessary to omit a few minor articles which are of little or no value as therapeutic agents. By these changes, it is confidently hoped that the practical usefulness of the work, so far from being diminished, will be found to be materially increased. The work of revision was commenced single-handed, and was thus carried out, as far as the article Quinine, when the infirmities of advancing years, notably decreasing powers of vision, from cataract, obliged me to desist. 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.