COMPLETION OF THE FOURTH EDITION OF PEREIRA.'S ELEMENTS OF MATERIA 

 MEDICA, REVISED B? DR. A. S. TAYLOR AND DR. G. 0. REES. 



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PEP.EIllA'S ELEMENTS 



OF 



MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS. 



THE FOUBTH EDITION, GREATLY IMPROVED, INCLUDING NOTICES OF 



MOST OF THE MEDICINAL SUBSTANCES IN USE IN THE CIVILISED WORLD, AND FORMING 



AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MATERIA MEDICA. 



REVISED AND ENLARGED PRINCIPALLY FROM THE AUTHOR'S MATERIALS BY 



ALFRED S. TAYLOR, M.D. &c. AND G. OWEN REES, M.D. Ac. 



THE Fourth Edition of Dr. PereOr&'s Elements 

 of Materia Medico, is now complete. The con- 

 tents have not only undergone revision, but there 

 has been a re-arrangement of the subjects, so that 

 they are now placed more in accordance with the 

 original plan of the author. The second part of the 

 second volume is increased by nearly one hundred 

 pages of new matter. There are twenty new articles, 

 and fifteen additional illustrations. The improve- 

 ments made by Dr. Carson, iu the American edi- 



tion, have been adopted by the Editors, and 

 the Pharmacopoeias of Norway and the United States 

 have been laid under contribution for numerous 

 medicinal preparations. To give some idea of the 

 extent of the Elements of Materia Medica, it may 

 be mentioned that the fourth edition comprises up- 

 wards of two thousand six hundred pages, five 

 hundred and eighty-six articles of Materia Medica, 

 and four hundred and seventy-eight wood-engra- 

 vings. 



of the three divisions of the work is furnished with a copious separate INDEX, so 

 that every particular relating to any substance or agent used in Medicine may be instantly 

 ascertained by any person al)le to read. Full and elaborate tables prefixed to each volume exhibit 

 its contents in scientific order for the use of educated or professional readers. The following 

 selections indicate inadequately the extent and variety of the subjects, and the general arrange- 

 ment ; they convey no idea of the fullness and plainness with which each article is treated. 



Light Darkness Heat Cold Electricity 

 Magnetism Food Exercise Climate Modes of 

 ascertaining the Effects of Medicine Active Forces 

 of Medicines Changes effected in Medicine by the 

 Organism Physiological Effects of Medicines - 

 Therapeutical Effects of Medicines Parts to which 

 Medicines are Applied Classification of Medicines 



Remedies acting on the Organs of Respiration- 

 Remedies acting on the Nervous System Remedies 

 acting on the Digestive Organs Remedies acting 

 on the Perspiratory System Remedies acting on the 

 Sexual Organs Water Distilled Waters Sea 

 Water Mineral Waters Plumbago Carbonic Acid 

 I3orax Phosphorus Sulphur Sulphuric Acid 



Chlorine Iodine Bromine Nitrogen, and its 

 Compounds with Oxygen and Hydrogen Ammonia 



Potash-SodaSoapRosinLimeMagnesia 

 Alnmen Chromic Acid Manganese Arsenic 

 Antimony Bismuth Zinc Tin Lead Iron and 

 its Compounds Copper Mercury Silver Gold- 

 Platinum Irish Moss Corsican Moss Wall Lichen 



Yeast or Barm Mushroom Champignon - 

 Maidenhair Rice Oats Darnel Wheat Bread 

 Rye Ergot of Rye Sugar Sugar-Cane Sago 

 Areca-Nut Saffron -Hellebore Aloes -Indian Aloes 



Si[uill Garlic Saffron Crocus Arrow-Root 

 Ginger Turmeric Vanilla Sarsaparilla Turpen- 

 tine Oil of Turpentine Tar Savin Willow Gall, 



or Dyer's Oak Cork Hemp Hop Black Pepper 

 White Pepper Cubeb Pepper Croton Oil Castor 

 Oil Snake-Root Cinnamon Laurel Nutmeg- 

 Rhubarb Peppermint Horehound Foxglove 

 Deadly Nightshade Thornapple Tobacco (Virginia) 

 Potato Tea Coffee Cocoa Chocolate Scam- 

 mony Jalap Gentian Nux Vomica, or Strychnia 

 Olive Manna Storax Benzoic Acid Gutta 

 Percha Indian Tobacco Elecampane Dandelion 

 Chicory Valerian Ipecacuanha Dover's Powder 

 Bark (Cinchona) Elder Caraway Coriander 

 Assafcetida Ammonia Galbanum Hemlock 

 Colocynth Wild Cucumber Clove Pomegranate- 

 Almond Prussic Acid Almond Milk Wild Cherry 

 Red Rose Bean Balsam Vetch Acacia 

 Logwood Senna Copaiva Poison Oak Myrrh 

 Rue Angustura Bark Oxalic Acid Tartaric Acid 

 Gin Brandy Spirits of Wine Ethyle Ether 

 Methylated Spirits Acetic Acid Chloroform - 

 Gamboge Lemon-Tree and Fruit Orange-Tree and 

 Fruit Mallow Flax Violet Horse Raddish 

 Poppy Opium Laudanum Morphia Cocculus 

 Indicus Black Hellebore Monkshood Geranium 

 Creasote Sponge Oyster Leeches Spanish Fly 

 Cochineal Honey Isinglass Cod Liver Oil 

 Musk Animal Stag Ox Beaver Badger Tabular 

 View of the History and Literature of Materia 

 Medica. 



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