Veterinary medicines : their actions and uses

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VETERINAKY MEDICINES

THEIR

Introduction

Veterinary Materia Medica, in the extended sense of the term, treats of every agent, material or immaterial, which is used for the cure of disease or injury, or for the preservation of health, among the domesticated animals. The full consideration of so large and diversified a subject would, however, fill several volumes, and the present work is devoted to that branch of Veterinary Materia Medica which is sometimes styled Veterinary Pharmacology, or the description of the medicines or drugs used in the cure of disease among the domesticated animals.

Medicines, although derived from so many sources throughout the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms, possess many actions in common, and are prepared for use by the same pharmaceutical processes. Two preliminary sections will therefore be advantageously occupied with general observations on the actions of medicines, and on the more important operations of pharmacy. The description of the medicines

themselves occupies the body of the volume.

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ACTION OF MEDICINES.