: - <■ % ^# i A y.- j?" % I-" * J V^V %^'V V*^V %*' % •f \5 *' .. s* ^ ° ^ *bK ,^ .' V « " • •- o ^ *: *•' * v* iSmbz* "^o« .^ ^- o* ft", "b v \/ i"- %■/ -I* ^/ -111"- v** ; \v ■ ■> V » " * °- C\ aP ■>...>,/* ^ MATERIA MEDICA, PHARMACY, AND THERAPEUTICS. POTTER. NOTICES OF THE MEDICAL PRESS OF PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF POTTER'S MATERIA MEDICA, PHARMACY AND THERAPEUTICS. From the Medical Record: "This is an old and valued friend which needs no commendation, much less an intro- duction. It ought to be in the library of every physician and student. It is the most con- venient and most concise work on therapeutics and materia medica in the English language, and is at the same time thoroughly reliable. Though necessarily largely a compilation, nevertheless there is much that is original, the author being one of the most prominent of American therapeutists." From the American Journal oj the Medical Sciences: "The author has very skilfully steered his course between the pessimism that marks a system of therapeutics based solely on the results given by experiments and observations in the chemical and physiological laboratories, and the optimism of hasty empirical general- izations upon meagre clinical data, and upon this we consider that the greatest claim can be made, that this book is a safe one for the junior practitioner. . . . The author, then, has fully attained the purpose which he set before him at the commencement." From the Lancet, London, England: "The third part is entitled 'Special Therapeutics,' and in its compilation a very large number of the works of accepted authorities have been laid under contribution. It forms a very complete and reliable index of treatment which will be a godsend to many a busy practi- tioner who has no time to wade through the copious literature that accompanies each new drug into the market." From the Australasian Medical Gazette: " It is a monument of persistent industry. There is no better book in the English language for the student and practitioner. . . . Dr. Potter's book is thoroughly practical, and Part III contains an enormous amount of information, for which the student ought to be grateful. . . . The chapter on prescriptions is especially well done, in fact the best we have seen." From the Journal oj the American Medical Association: "Dr. Potter has embodied many original ideas in the preparation of this work, some, if not all of which will prove of very great value to the reader." From the Therapeutic Gazette: "The author has aimed to embrace in a single volume the essentials of practical materia medica and therapeutics, and has produced a book small enough for easy carriage and easy reference, large enough to contain a carefully-digested, but full, clear, and well-arranged mass of information. No new remedy of any acknowledged value is omitted from this list. Under each the section on physiological action and therapeutics has been written with care. . . . In the enumeration of drugs suited to different disorders a very successful effort at discrimina- tion has been made, both in the stage of disease and in the cases peculiarly suited to the remedy. It is no mere list of diseases followed by a catalogue of drugs, but is a digest of modern thera- peutics, and as such will prove of immense use to its possessor." From the New York Medical Journal: "Dr. Potter's Handbook will find a place, and a very important one, in our colleges and the libraries of our practitioners. It contains almost everything that can be found in the larger works in a more concise form and brought up to a rather more recent date. . . . Under the head of prescription writing considerable attention is paid to the subject of incom- patibilities, and the student will here find many valuable hints for his guidance in this difficult subject. Besides this, there are, under the head of special therapeutics, very many formulas for the treatment of particular diseases and abnormal conditions, arranged alphabetically for easy reference. This will be especially valuable to young practitioners, and will frequentlv save the trouble of looking through large works and monographs for suitable formulae in the treatment of special cases. This department is fuller in this book than in any with which we are acquainted." *** The price of this book is S5.00, net, in cloth binding, or $6.00, net, in full leather; for which it will be delivered free to any address. Thumb Index in each copy. MATERIA MEDICA, PHARMACY AND THERAPEUTICS, INCLUDING THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION OF DRUGS, THE SPECIAL THERAPEU- TICS OF DISEASE, OFFICIAL AND PRACTICAL PHARMACY, MINUTE DIRECTIONS FOR PRESCRIPTION WRITING AND AVOIDING INCOMPATIBILITY, ALSO THE ANTIDOTAL AND ANTAGONISTIC TREATMENT OF POISONING. SAM'L O. L. POTTER, A.M., M.D., M.R.C.P. Lond., FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE IN THE COOPER MEDICAL COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO ; AUTHOR OF THE " QUIZ-COMPENDS OF ANATOMY AND MATERIA MEDICA," " AN INDEX OF COMPARATIVE THERAPEUTICS," SEVERAL ARTICLES IN FOSTER'S " PRACTICAL THERAPEUTICS," AND " SPEECH AND ITS DEFECTS"; LATE MAJOR AND SURGEON OF VOLUNTEERS, U. S. ARMY. TENTH EDITION, Revised, and in Greater Part Rewritten. PHILADELPHIA: P. BLAKISTON'S SON & CO. I O I 2 WALNUT STREET. I906 LI8RARY of CONGRESS Two Copies Received UAN 13 1906 CoDyrlfcM Entry Coc^t-.y. /9ot> . fUSS Ct XXc. No. (J t 3 6~/ ?d ^ COPY B. \ ^ \ s .i5 \i 1 essary Apparatus > s .i5 APPENDIX, 849 Latin Phrasi :, Con ractions, etc., used in Pbj scrlptions, 849 l. \n\ Numerals 861 Latin Verbs, Participles, Prepositions, etc 862 iE-ENDINGS 862 Hypodermic Formuj s. 863 Pateni Mi pi ciMs 865 Tab 1 Differential Diagnosis 869 Forms of Bright'-- 1 lisease 869 Cancer 870 c larditis, Endocarditis and Pericarditis 870 Cerebral Concussion and Compression, 870 Chancre and Chancroid 870 Cholera 871 Croup and Diphtheria, 871 Epilepsy and Hysteria, 871 Gout and Rheumatism 871 Pleurisy and Pneumonia, Intercostal Neuralgia, etc., 872 Pneumonia, Lobular and Lobar, 872 Scarlet Fever, Measles and Smallpox, 872 Typhus and Typhoid Fevers, 873 Varicella and Varioloid 874 Yellow Fever and Bilious Remittent Fever, 874 Tables: Table of Drops in and Weights of a Fluidrachm, 875 Table of Weights and Measures, 875 Table for Metric Conversions, 876 Table of Equivalent Weights and Measures, Inside of Cover. Table of Prescription Doses and Quantities, Inside of Cover. INDEX, 877 EXPLANATION. For Signs and Abbreviations used, see pages 503 to 515, and page 568. Average Adult Doses of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia, for each drug and preparation, are given in brackets, thus — [av. gr. x.]. Unofficial Synonyms arc placed in parentheses after the official synonyms. Numerals unqualified, under the subtitles Preparations in Part I, denote grammes for solids and cubic centimeters for liquids. ERRATA. Page 47, line 11 from bottom, — jor simple read similar. Page Si, line 17 from bottom, — jor NOi 2 read NO n . Page 141, line 20 from bottom, — jor Caffein read Caffeine. Page 169, line 2, — jor neurtisi read neuritis. Page 171, last line, — jor 5 read tijj. Page 172, line 22, — for Homolropine read Homatropine. Page 179, line 8 from bottom, — jor Bromine read Bromide. Page 220, line 23, — add Soap Liniment 5ij at end oj line. Page 249, line 12; page 308, line n; and page 418, line 26 from bottom, — jor gr. read nj>. Page 262, line 17 from bottom, — jor 50 read 5. Page 275, line 7 from bottom, — the paragraph relating to Sodium Glycocholate belongs on page 276, under the title Fel Bovis. Page 314, line 8 from bottom, — jor pyrrhol read pyrrol. Page 342, line 24, — jor carbon dioxide water read carbon dioxide and water. Page 355, headline, — jor Olive read Oliy.e. Page 356, line 12 from bottom, — jor Cryptomine read Cryptopine. Page 357, line 13, — jor Morphne read Morphine. Page 339, under Incompatibles, — jor 500 read 5, and jor 600 read 6. Page 364, line 2, — jor his read is. Page 398, line 10 from bottom, — jor official read unofficial. Page 534, line 8 from bottom, — jor oijss read ojss. Page 530, line 2 from bottom, — jor Pigments read Pigmenta. Page 376, line 9, — jor fort he read for the. Page 708, line 16, — jor Acetanilid read Acetanilide. INTRODUCTION. Drugs (drugan, to dry), — is a term which was formerly applied to dried medicinal plants, and is still employed by writers and others in that sense. By extension, however, it has been made to cover all material substances used for the treatment of disease, including remedial agents from the animal and min- eral kingdoms as well as those belonging to the vegetable kingdom. Pharmacology (