Excerpt from Materia Medica; Pharmacology; Therapeutics Prescription Writing: For Students and Practitioners Therapeutics is the science of the use of remedial measures. When a physician orders a patient to bed, he employs a thera peutie measure. Also when he orders a cold bath, a cathartic, or the application of a mustard plaster; or when he applies a splint to a broken arm, or removes an inflamed appendix, or sits by the bed and calms a nervous patient. Preventive medicine goes a step further than remedial medicine, in that it designs to prevent the appearance or spread of disease. The main therapeutic and preventive measures may be grouped as follows. 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.