American Journal of Pharmacy, Volume 42

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Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science., 1870 - Pharmacology
 

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Page 479 - HALF-YEARLY ABSTRACT OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. BEING A DIGEST OF BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL MEDICINE, AND OF THE PROGRESS OF MEDICINE AND THE COLLATERAL SCIENCES.
Page 91 - A PHARMACOPOEIA ; including the Outlines of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, for the Use of Practitioners and Students of Veterinary Medicine Post 8vo., 7s.
Page 478 - THE AMERICAN CHEMIST: A Monthly Journal of Theoretical, * Analytical, and Technical Chemistry.
Page 256 - ... abundant specimens of a small-celled torula were found, and these were seen to increase in numbers for two days, after which they ceased to develop. These differences in the nature of the bodies met with probably show some difference in the nature of the fluid given off; but it was pointed out that they afford no proof as yet of the germ theory of disease. They simply show the readiness with which the aqueous vapour of the breath supports fermentation, and the dangers of bad ventilation, especially...
Page 333 - Dr. Richardson said he had an objection to the methods which, up to the present time, were adopted for carrying the principle into practice. His objections to nitrous oxide gas were as firm as ever. He held still that the employment of an agent which excluded all atmospheric air during inhalation, which produced the most perfect asphyxia, which required for its administration costly and troublesome apparatus, and which, if administered beyond a given period, even for a few seconds, must of necessity...
Page 190 - OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. BEING A DIGEST OF BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL MEDICINE, AND OF THE PROGRESS OF MEDICINE AND THE COLLATERAL SCIENCES. Edited by W.
Page 567 - The following resolution was adopted : Resolved, That a committee of three members of the faculty be appointed by the President to analyze the Summer Session curriculum course by course with a view to co-ordinating and combining the courses so far as in their judgment may be done without materially decreasing the efficiency of the work...
Page 72 - I mixed it for him, and to his surprise it was tasteless. As he felt doubtful of its being quinine, I mixed up some for myself, and it proved to be completely masked. I sent some to several physicians, who pronounced it a success. Dr. EP Gaines, and other leading physicians, have been prescribing it ever since to their own and their patients
Page 292 - That measures of capacity be abandoned in the Pharmacopoeia, and that the quantities in all formulas be expressed both in weights and in equal parts by weight.
Page 113 - ... dogmas of authority. In the most barbarous ages of ancient Egypt, he was punished or rewarded according to the extent of his success ; but to escape the former it was only necessary to show that an orthodox plan of cure had been followed, such as was prescribed in the acknowledged writings of Hermes. It is an instinct in our nature to follow the track pointed out by a few leaders...

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