A Handbook of Local Therapeutics (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Harrison Allen
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ISBN: 9781330512197
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Excerpt from A Handbook of Local Therapeutics A number of circumstances induced the authors to undertake the preparation of this book. It was known that no text was available in which the local actions of drugs were not subordinated to their general actions. In the lines of special medicine, as represented in General Surgery, Dermatology, Otology, Rhinology, Laryngology, and Ophthalmology, it was believed that the topical uses of drugs are among the most important to which they can be put, and that statements concerning them from experienced practitioners would be acceptable to the profession. It was further assumed that the changes brought about by the theories of asepsis had made it desirable that the entire range of local medicaments be revised. Of late years, through the extraordinary activity of chemists, the number of agents which affect tissues locally has been greatly increased. Many of these substances are yet on trial. To present a succinct account of their sources and properties would appear to be a useful effort. The book is intended more as a guide to treatment than as a disquisition on local medication. Conceding the value of many new drugs, the authors have faith in the judgments of the older practitioners who secured good results from limited resources. Neither have remedies of the household been ignored, as really valuable hints for local treatment may be gleaned from among them. While it is acknowledged that errors of judgment may have been committed in excluding some drugs whose properties have been praised, a greater error would have been to endorse imperfectly attested novelties. The divisions of the main subjects are seen occasionally to overlap. It is hoped that the instances in which this occurs will tend to" reinforce the teaching rather than to weaken it. Procedures are noted which are usually treated of in books on minor surgery (as in the account of fixation of dressings); as well as descriptions of the systematic actions of drugs (as in lard and the actions of fats). "Anesthetics" and "bleeding" it must be conceded are on the border line between local and general therapeutics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.