CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



PREFACE v 



Medicines : their mode of preparation, their curative selection ; 



the dose or potency ; and the manner of their administration, 



briefly explained vii 



Homeopathic medicines their number their form selection of 



remedies Potencies mode of administration diet vii 



Table of medicines : their official names, abbreviations, English 



names, and potencies usually prescribed by the author xiv 



INTRODUCTION. 



Importance of a scientific study of medicine Confidence of 

 patient Early history of medicine Primitive period Sacred 

 period Philosophic period Anatomical period Greek period 

 Krudite period Reform period Conflicting opinions of medi- 

 cine as a science Aa an art progressive 1 



CHAPTER I. 



History of the liver Plato's views, Galen's Asselli's discoveries 

 1'rtquet's, Magendie, Tiedmann, Bernard, Lehmann, and 

 Schmidt Anatomy of liver structures Physiology of Bile, 

 uses of, relative weight and size of liver in health and disease 

 Bartholin'a views Haller, Cruveilheir, Hiiscke, and Frerichs 

 Age, sex, digestion, effect of, on size and disease Normal and 

 abnormal conditions of liver Causes: age, temperament, 

 climate, diet, regimen, type 4 



