The Action of medicines in the systemChurchill, 1855 - 396 pages |
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... facts is indispensable as a beginning , but something more is required . We must not be satisfied with taking them separately , but we must proceed to compare together a large number of facts , and draw inferences from this comparison ...
... facts is indispensable as a beginning , but something more is required . We must not be satisfied with taking them separately , but we must proceed to compare together a large number of facts , and draw inferences from this comparison ...
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... facts and symptoms , is so great , that the utmost exertion of human sagacity , founded upon the largest induction of particulars which any one mind is capable of em- bracing and retaining , can do no more than approximate to that real ...
... facts and symptoms , is so great , that the utmost exertion of human sagacity , founded upon the largest induction of particulars which any one mind is capable of em- bracing and retaining , can do no more than approximate to that real ...
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... facts essentially opposed and incompatible have been adduced by the disagreeing parties ; or , which is nearly as common , the same fact has received two distinct and opposite interpretations . Many hypotheses , when tested , are seen ...
... facts essentially opposed and incompatible have been adduced by the disagreeing parties ; or , which is nearly as common , the same fact has received two distinct and opposite interpretations . Many hypotheses , when tested , are seen ...
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... fact which is at the best uncertain . But having gone so far , I have in several instances indulged in speculations and hypotheses on certain matters , taking care to state that such explanations are only probable , and very far from ...
... fact which is at the best uncertain . But having gone so far , I have in several instances indulged in speculations and hypotheses on certain matters , taking care to state that such explanations are only probable , and very far from ...
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... fact , identical with them . The formation of such an arrangement depends on the necessity of considering medicines in groups , each possessed of some common character , in order that their various properties INTRODUCTORY REMARKS .
... fact , identical with them . The formation of such an arrangement depends on the necessity of considering medicines in groups , each possessed of some common character , in order that their various properties INTRODUCTORY REMARKS .
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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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