Medicines : their uses and mode of administration including a complete conspectus of the three British pharmacopoeias, an account of all the new remedies, and appendix of formulae / by J. Moore Neligan ; with notes and additions, conforming it to the Pharmacopoeia of the United States, and including all that is new or important in recent improvements, by David Meredith Reese.

  • Neligan, J. Moore (John Moore), 1815-1863.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Medicines : their uses and mode of administration including a complete conspectus of the three British pharmacopoeias, an account of all the new remedies, and appendix of formulae / by J. Moore Neligan ; with notes and additions, conforming it to the Pharmacopoeia of the United States, and including all that is new or important in recent improvements, by David Meredith Reese. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. The following table of contents, which the author has prefixed to his volume, exhibits a classification of the Materia Medica pro- fessedly based on the ultimate medicinal effects of remediate agents. This is intended as an approximation to the Physiological classification, which all concur in regarding as desirable, and, in- deed, necessary, in order to conform this department to the syste- matic arrangements so happily introduced into the other branches of medical science. The imperfection of our knowledge in respect to the laws of vitality, and the phenomena resulting from morbid and curative agencies, as applied to the living organization, does, in- deed, present a formidable obstacle to such an arrangement of the multiplied articles of the Materia Medica as shall be unexception- able, or which, in point of accuracy, shall be entitled to entire con- fidence. And, moreover, the improvements which are annually introduced in this department forbid the expectation that any clas- sification can be made, in the present state of the science, which will not need to be modified, in order to keep pace with the march of discovery and improvement characteristic of the age. Still, however, there are certain great outlines, which may be seized upon, as having enough of fixity and permanence to furnish the ba- sis of a systematized arrangement less faulty than any yet adopted. Dr. Neligan has here arranged the whole Materia Medica into 22 divisions or chapters, alphabetically entitled as follows, viz.; A.ntacias, Anthelmintics, Antispasmodics, Astringents, Cathartics, Caustics, Diaphoretics, Diuretics Emetics, Emmenagogues, Emollients, Epispastics, Errhines, Expectorants, Narcotics, Refrigerants, Sedatives or Contra- stimulants, Sialagogues, General Stimulants, Special Stimulants, Tonics, and Supplementary agents.