MATERIA MEDICA, FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS. BY JOHN B. BIDDLE, M.D., PROFESSOR OF MATERIA MEDICA AND GENERAL THERAPEUTICS IN THE JEFFERSON MEDICAL THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, ETC., ETC. SIXTH EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. PHILADELPHIA: 1874. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, BY LINDSAY & BLAKISTON, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. HENRY B. ASHMEAD, PRINTER. PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION. ALTHOUGH little more than a year has elapsed since the publication of the fifth edition of the Materia Medica, the author is gratified to find that it has been entirely exhausted. He has bestowed unusual care upon the preparation of the present edition, having recast and often rewritten the therapeutical articles, and. remodelled the chemical descriptions. The new method of chemical notation is now so universally used, that it has been adopted in this edition. Many new articles have been introduced, and the work has been, in every respect, revised. The illustrations of the book comprise, as in previous editions, representations of most of the important indigenous and naturalized plants, as well as diagrams of instruments employed in the atomization of liquids, in the new operation of pneumatic aspiration, and in the transfusion of blood. The author has aimed in this, as in previous editions, to present a succinct account of the articles of the Materia Medica, in general use in the United States, and discussed in the courses of lectures delivered upon the subject, to which he trusts the work will be found, as heretofore, to furnish a suitable textbook. He takes pleasure in renewing his dedication of it to the gentlemen in attendance upon the various medical schools of North America. PHILADELPHIA, June, 1874. |