Excerpt from A d104book of Pharmacology and Therapeutics: Or the Action of Drugs in Health and Disease During the eighteen months which have elapsed since the appearance of the second edition, several important advances have been made in pharmacology, necessitating corresponding changes in the text. The most interesting of these advances is the authoritative and, it is to be hoped, final determination of the food value of alcohol, which has been treated in more detail than in former editions. The increasing use of cocaine as a local anaesthetic, and the introduction of the subarachnoid method of medication required an expansion of the chapter on this drug, and the same may be said of the pages devoted to the adrenal gland. Numerous minor changes have been made to bring the text up to date and several new illustrations have been added. Some experience in teaching pharmacology has led me to devote the last part of the term to a review, in which the drugs are classified according to their therapeutic uses. There is then an opportunity to compare the relative advantages of, and the special indications for different remedies, which is necessarily absent in the earlier part of the course. In order to facilitate this part of the work, such a classification has been appended to this edition. I have again to express my gratitude to the teachers of pharmacology for the welcome accorded the first two editions, as well as for many helpful suggestions for this one. 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."