Practical Veterinary Pharmacology 

 and Therapeutics 



By HOWARD JAY MILKS, 



Professor of Therapeutics and Small Animal Clinic, New York State 

 Veterinary College, Cornell University. 



8vo. Preparing. 



This book is designed as a text-book for students and practitioners in 

 veterinary medicine. In addition to the usual discussion on the action 

 and uses of drugs there are chapters on the method of action of drugs, 

 incompatibilities, solubilities, prescription writing and biologic prepara- 

 tions. 



Drugs are grouped according to their therapeutic indications or uses and 

 the general therapeutic considerations are taken up just before the 

 members of the group are discussed in detail. Thus the general actions 

 and uses of the group and the detailed study of the drugs belonging to 

 it are discussed in the same chapter. This plan differs from many texts 

 in which the various therapeutic groups are discussed briefly in the 

 first part of the book and to which no reference is made under the de- 

 tailed discussion of the drugs. 



Included under the discussion of the various drugs are the common 

 and official names, synonyms, derivation, preparations, doses in both 

 metric and apothecary's systems, action upon the various systems of 

 the body including poisoning and its treatment, and the uses. The 

 action and uses of the drugs are correlated so far as is possible. 



That part of the book devoted to drugs has been brought up to date and 

 made to conform to the last revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia. 

 Representative prescriptions involving the use of different drugs in 

 various combinations are profusely scattered throughout the book. 



The chapter on serums, antitoxins and viruses was prepared by Dr. 

 C. P. Fitch, Professor of Bacteriology, New York State Veterinary Col- 

 lege, Cornell University. It deals with the method of preparation of the 

 different products as well as their application and should be especially 

 valuable to those practitioners who have been out of college for some years. 



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