The incidental effects of drugs : a pharmacological and clinical hand-book

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Preface

The science of materia medica, as an essential connecting link between purely experimental investigation and empiricism, receives contributions both from the laboratory and from observation at the bedside. The facts obtained from these sources present in their totality the picture of the typical mode of action of individual drugs.

But in the therapeutic employment of certain drugs, deviations sometimes occur from this typical and, as one may say, normal action, whose recognition and correct interpretation are not always easy. A knowledge of them is, however, of great importance to the physician, since they may, in a given case, shed light upon the cause of the unexpected phenomena which show themselves, and also furnish indications to guide him in his practical interference.

The individual facts bearing upon this subject, the phenomena of abnormal drug-action, are widely scattered through medical literature, and are either not at all mentioned, or are only superficially treated of in text-books on materia medica and therapeutics. For this reason I have for a long time occupied myself in collecting and annotating them, and in making additions to their number from my own experience. The result is contained in this wTork, which will, I hope, not only satisfy practical requirements, but also stimulate to further observations in this direction. L. Lewin.

Berlin, January, 1881.

Contents

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Introduction I

Acids * 70