Oswald Schmiedeberg
Published: 2015-07-27
Total Pages: 236
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Excerpt from Elements of Pharmacology The following d104-Book is intended to serve as a pharmacological commentary on the Second Edition of the German Pharmacop ia. It contains in abstract only that part of the science of remedies upon which it falls to the Pharmacologist to form a judgment, and it is therefore neither a book of prescriptions nor a compendium of treatment. The latter does not concern the Pathologist, but the Physician and Clinician. The extent of and modern method of regarding Practical Medicine on the one hand, and Pharmacology on the other, do not permit the teaching of both subjects to be united in one person, on account of the danger that dilettanteism might interfere with one or other of them. Without pharmacological knowledge, the practitioner will always grope about in darkness as regards the application of remedies. To supply this knowledge is the task of the Pharmacologist. He is not, however, in a position to give directions to the Physician as to the treatment of disease; he must be contented, in formulating a science of remedies, to describe the actions of powerful agents in their practical application, more especially with respect to man, to characterise the consequences which follow the use of such means, under different conditions, for the entire organism, and from pharmacological facts to formulate general rules for the employment of remedies. 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."