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DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to the many students of

the old Cincinnati College of Medicine and

Surgery, to whom the author has had the

pleasure and privilege of lecturing for the past

twenty years. With the association of student.

and professor go recollections so pleasant that

the entire period is looked upon as one of the

most agreeable and satisfying in his entire

professional career.

THE AUTHOR.

COPYRIGHTED.

THE CLINIC PUBLISHING CO.,

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PREFACE TO FIRST-EDITION

The following pages are offered to students and practitioners of

medicine simply as a guide to the practice of "Dosimetry," or Alkaloidal

Medication. The book does not contain a complete, scientific exposition

of the physiological actions of the active principles of all plants, upon men

and animals. Only such prominent physiological effects are described as

will enable practitioners to prescribe these selected medicines

intelligently. Attention is particularly given to the application of remedies

in the treatment of the sick.

Since the literature on the subject of these remedies is still meager in

amount, the writer has been obliged to draw chiefly from his personal

experience. The dosage for children, especially in the case of aconitine,

has been particularly difficult to ascertain and, only after prolonged

experimentation, not unaccompaniedwith considerable anxiety, has a safe

and efficient dose been- determined upon.

The text contains the subject-matter of two courses of lectures on "The

Uses of Dosimetric Medicines," delivered in connection with lectures on

Clinical Medicine to the students of the Cincinnati College of Medicine

and Surgery."

The various remedies, an account of which formed the basis of these

lectures, are considered the -most important in general use, and are

usually sufficient to enable a general practitioner to treat successfully

such cases as present themselves to him.

The writer does not, however, wish to convey the idea that the list of

alkaloidal granules contains all the medicines prescribed by dosimetric

physicians. There are a great many excellent medicines which cannot be

prepared in granules or even in tablets, and there are others, prepared in

this way, which cannot produce any effect whatever when given in such

doses as these granules contain. This much, however, is certain, that the

more important remedies are prepared in granule form, and that the

majority of diseases are treated more successfully by giving small and

frequently-repeated doses of active principles, than by giving cruder

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preparations in large doses at long intervals of time.

Not all the medicines used in dosimetry are alkaloids. Among them are

found resinoids, glucosides, acids, salts of various metals, extracts and

various chemical combinations -and other substances which cannot be

classed with the above, as pepsin, diastase, iodoform, nitroglycerin

(glonoin), camphor monobromate, etc.

If a perusal of the following pages shall enable medical practitioners to

apply the active principles of plants, successfully, for the alleviation and

cure of disease, the object for which they have been written will have

been accomplished. In recasting the lectures into the present form,

frequent recourse was had to the works of Burggraeve, Castro,

Bartholow, H. C. Wood, Potter and Waugh, and to "The National

Dispensatory," Sajous’ "Annals of the Universal Medical Sciences," and to

the "Reference Handbook of Medical Sciences."

JOHN M. SHALLER, M. D.

Cincinnati, O., 1895.

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PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION.

The fact that several editions of this little book were issued during the

first years of its publication, and that the demand for the same still

continues great, are sufficient reasons to put forth a revised and enlarged

edition.

The text and substance of this book is compiled from notes of clinical and

physiological lectures delivered to the students of the Cincinnati College

of Medicine and Surgery.

The chief object in mind, while delivering these lectures, was always to

bring out practical points whereby the student could thoroughly

understand normal physiology and, at the same time, study the

physiological action of drugs and, by comparing these two, by offsetting

one against the other, he might be able to apply this particular

information at the bedside of the sick.

He was taught in his diagnosis to determine, as far as possible, any and

all departures from normal physiological actions. He was taught to

mentally picture any deviation from health such as vasomotor,

disturbance or hypersecretion, and then apply some remedy that would

restore this abnormality.

He was taught that most diseases were, at first, simply slight deviations.

from what was physiologically right, and that practically he was to apply

remedies which would restore these departures to the normal.

He was not taught that disease must be taken in its entirety and treated

as such, but to observe all physiological departures and attempt to

restore them, and in doing so, he was to use any means, from whatever

source possible, in order to produce the desired results.

Not only was he taught to determine the exact physiological departures,

but he must sedulously seek for the causes that produced them and act as

directly on them as it were possible to do.

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