The Action of medicines in the systemChurchill, 1855 - 396 pages |
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... body , before their action can be manifested . PROP . II . That the great majority of medicines are capable of solu- tion in the gastric or intestinal secretions , and pass without material change , by a process of absorption , through ...
... body , before their action can be manifested . PROP . II . That the great majority of medicines are capable of solu- tion in the gastric or intestinal secretions , and pass without material change , by a process of absorption , through ...
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... body . PROP . VIII . That a second class of medicines , called Neurotics , act by passing from the blood to the nerves or nerve - centres , which they influence . That they are transitory in action . 1. That of these some , called ...
... body . PROP . VIII . That a second class of medicines , called Neurotics , act by passing from the blood to the nerves or nerve - centres , which they influence . That they are transitory in action . 1. That of these some , called ...
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... body , the conditions and circumstances of the latter are so various in different cases , and the number of concomitants which have to be considered in addition to the more obvious facts and symptoms , is so great , that the utmost ...
... body , the conditions and circumstances of the latter are so various in different cases , and the number of concomitants which have to be considered in addition to the more obvious facts and symptoms , is so great , that the utmost ...
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... body to which their action is especially directed . Neither of these deal with the mode in which me- dicines act as the basis of classification . But a third set of writers have attempted in various ways to explain the modes of ...
... body to which their action is especially directed . Neither of these deal with the mode in which me- dicines act as the basis of classification . But a third set of writers have attempted in various ways to explain the modes of ...
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... body a medicine acts in the same way as when placed in the stomach . It is found by direct experiment that a poison will not act through the medium of nerves only , but that its passage in the blood is required . Thirdly , the course of ...
... body a medicine acts in the same way as when placed in the stomach . It is found by direct experiment that a poison will not act through the medium of nerves only , but that its passage in the blood is required . Thirdly , the course of ...
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absorbed absorption action agents Ague alkali alkaloid Ammonia animal Antimony Arsenic Astringents bile blood blood-medicines bowels brain Carbonic Carbonic acid Catalytic medicines Cathartics cause chemical cloth condition considered contains counteract cure deposit Diaphoretics diminish discases diseases disorders dissolved Diuretics effect efficacy Eliminatives Emetic endosmosis excess excreted exert explained fever Fibrine fluid function Gallic Acid given glands Hæmatics Hydrocyanic acid inflammation influence insoluble intestinal Iodine irritant kidneys lacteal Lactic acid large doses liver matters membrane Mercury mineral minor propositions morbid muscular Narcotics nature nerve-medicines nerves nervous force nervous system Neurotics neutralize operation Opium oxidation pass peculiar poison Potash principle probably produce proved purging quantity Quina remedies Restorative saline salts Scrofula Scurvy secretion Sedatives skin small doses Soda soluble solution Stimulants stomach Strychnia substances Sulphate Sulphur supposed symptoms Syphilis Tannic acid tend theory tion tissues Tonics Uric acid urine vegetable acids vessels Vide
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