Opening
PHARMACOLOGIA.
FOURTH AMERICAN, FROM THE SEVENTH LONDON EDITION.
BY J. A. PARIS, M.D. F.R.S. F.L.S. FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON, ETC., ETC., ETC.
Quis Pharmacopœo dabit leges, ignarus ipse agendorum?—Vis profecto dici potest, quantum hæc ignorantia rei medicæ inferat detrimentum.
GAUB: METHOD: CONCINN: FORMUL.
WITH NOTES AND ADDITIONS,
BY
JOHN B. BECK, M.D.
PROFESSOR OF MATERIA MEDICA AND MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, &C., &C.
NEW-YORK: W. E. DEAN, PRINTER. COLLINS AND HANNAY, COLLINS AND CO., AND WHITE, GALLAHER AND WHITE.
1831.
Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-one, by W. E. Dean, in the Clerk’s Office of the Southern District of New-York.
TO
WILLIAM GEORGE MATON, M.D. F.R.S. FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE LINNÆAN SOCIETY, &c., &c., &c.
MY DEAR SIR,
There is not an individual in the whole circle of the profession, to whom I could with greater satisfaction, or with so much propriety, dedicate this work, as to yourself.
Ardent and zealous in the advancement of our science, you must deeply deplore the prejudices that retard its progress;—eminently enlightened in Natural History, you can justly appreciate the importance of its applications to Medicine; while your well known earnestness in upholding the dignity, and in encouraging the legitimate exercise of our profession, marks you as the most proper patron of a work, the aim of which is to extinguish the false lights of empiricism, and to substitute a steady beacon on the solid and permanent basis of truth and science: at the same time, the extensive practice which your talents and urbanity so justly command in this metropolis, must long since have taught you the full extent of that empiricism which it has been my endeavour to expose, and the practical mischief of that ignorance which it has been my object to enlighten.
Nor let me omit to mention the claims of that friendship which has for many years subsisted between us; be assured that I am gratefully sensible of those personal obligations which so fully justify this public avowal of them; confidently trusting that you will not measure the gratitude which your kindness has inspired, by the merits of the offering by which it is acknowledged, but rather by the truth and sincerity of the Dedication, by which I am enabled to express
My respect for your talents; esteem for your virtues; and wishes for your happiness; JOHN AYRTON PARIS.
Dover-street, April, 1829.
TO THE
STUDENTS OF THE COLLEGE
OF
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
IN THE
CITY OF NEW-YORK,
THE PRESENT
EDITION OF THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,
BY THEIR
FRIEND AND INSTRUCTOR,
THE EDITOR.
PREFACE. HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION. PHARMACOLOGIA. ON THE OPERATIONS OF MEDICINAL BODIES, AND ON THE CLASSIFICATIONS FOUNDED ON THEM. ON THE THEORY AND ART OF PRESCRIBING. A COLLECTION OF FORMULÆ INTENDED TO ILLUSTRATE THE FOREGOING PRECEPTS, and to furnish the inexperienced Prescriber WITH A SERIES OF USEFUL AND INSTRUCTIVE LESSONS. A SYNOPSIS OF THE Principles of Combination, AS INVESTIGATED IN THE PRECEDING PAGES, ARRANGED IN A TABULAR FORM SO AS TO AFFORD THE STUDENT AN EASY REFERENCE TO THE KEY LETTERS. OF THE MEDICINAL DYNAMETER. PHARMACOLOGIA. INDEX. INDEX TO THE PATENT MEDICINES, AND NOSTRUMS, DESCRIBED IN THIS WORK.
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