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Excerpt from Therapeutic Handbook of the United States Pharmacopoeia: Being a Condensed Statement of the Physiological, and Toxic Action, Medicinal Value, Methods of Administration and Doses of the Drugs and Preparations
The author of' the present work, who was prevented by circum stances, which he has ever since regretted, from taking part in the Revisional Convention, can say what the members of the Convention might not feel at liberty to say so publiclyythat the familiarity with the United States Pharmacopoeia gained in the preparation of this commentary has continually increased his respect for the practical wisdom guiding the selection of remedies and preparations, and the professional skill and minute accuracy everywhere evident. Rarely need the most progressive practitioner go outside of its limits for anything of real value.
In this little work the author has endeavored to supply brie?y and concisely the information necessary to make it a convenient book for the practitioner, though not with the h0pe of rivalling the encyclo paedic United States and American dispensatories, to which, as well as to the works of Husemann, Rabuteau, Bartholow, and H. C. Wood he here acknowledges his special obligations. It cannot, of course, be expected in a work of this size that all the subjects will be exhaustively treated, and, in fact, the practitioner will find it useful as much in the way of a remembrancer as an authority. It will be noticed, perhaps unfavorably, that the author has endeavored to suggest, so far as pos sible, principles of treatment rather than to mention the name of each disease in which each drug has been or may be used. This, if it be an error, is one of judgment rather than of inattention.
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