Eighth Revised Edition* 



POTTER'S MATERIA MEDICA, PHARMACY, AND 

 THERAPEUTICS. Eighth Edition, Enlarged and 

 Revised* A Handbook, including the Physiological 

 Action of Drugs, Special Therapeutics of Disease, Official 

 and Practical Pharmacy, Prescription Writing, etc. By 

 SAMUEL O. L. POTTER, M.A., M.D., formerly Professor of 

 the Practice of Medicine, Cooper Medical College, San 

 Francisco; late Major and Brigade Surgeon, U. S. Vol., 

 etc. Octavo. 950 pages. Thumb Index. 



Cloth, net, $5.00; Leather, net, $6.00 



A UNIQUE BOOK. 



The present edition contains material gathered from the writer's experience in 

 active professional practice in a tropical climate, among soldiers and civilians, men, 

 women, and children, during a period of nearly two years' duration. 



The text throughout the book has again been subjected to a thorough and critical 

 revision, has been largely rewritten, and has been expanded by the introduction of 

 much new matter. The latter has to some extent taken the place of material consid- 

 ered obsolete or comparatively unimportant, so that the increased size of the book 

 over the previous edition is only twenty pages. 



In the section on Materia Medica twelve articles have been rewritten and 

 thirty-eight new articles have been inserted. The rewritten ones are those on Argen- 

 tum, Cinchona, Coca, Coffea, Digitalis, Dulcin, Ergot, Ferrum, Ipecacuanha, Myrrha, 

 Saccharinum, and Veratrum Viride. The new matter includes paragraphs on Actpl, 

 Airol, Argentamin,Argentol, Argonin,Chinosol, Creosotal, Dionine, Eucaine, Eudoxin, 

 Glycero-phosphates, Heroine, Holocaine, lodothyrin, Itrol, Largin, Nosophen, Orphol, 

 Orthoform, Passiflora, Pellotine, Peronine, Phloridzin, Pipendin, Protargol, Tuber- 

 culin-R, Urotropin, and Xeroform. 



In the section on Therapeutics new articles are inserted on Local Anesthesia, 

 Beriberi, Dhobie Itch, Tropical Fevers, Heat-stroke, Hemoglobinuric Fever, Lymph- 

 adenoma, Miliaria, Bubonic Plague, Sprue, Tinea Imbricata, Tinea Versicolor, and 

 Toxemia. Twenty-eight articles in this portion of the book have been rewritten, 

 including those on Amenorrhea, Asthma, Boils, Cholera, Diabetes, Dysentery, Dysp- 

 nea, Gonorrhea, Insomnia, Leprosy, Lucocythemia, Lichen. Myxedema, Pemphigus, 

 Phthisis, Remittent Fever, Typhoid Fever, Septicemia, Shock, Suppuration, Ulcers, 

 Uremia, Variola, and Wounds. The text of many other articles has been expanded 

 by the incorporation of more than two hundred items from current medical literature 

 and from the author's personal experience in practice. 



ARRANGEMENT OF CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION/ Administration of Drugs, Classification, Dosage, etc. 



PART I. Materia Medica and Therapeutics, arranged alphabetically ; under each 

 drug is given its Synonym, Description, Preparations, Analogous Compounds, Deriva- 

 tives, and Doses, official and unofficial ; Physiological Action ; Antagonists, Anti- 

 dotes ; Therapeutics. 



PART II. Pharmacy and Prescription Writing ; Constituents of Vegetable Drugs ; 

 Weights and Measures ; Incompatibility; Extemporaneous Pharmacy, etc. Written 

 for the physician who prefers to, or must from necessity, dispense his own medicines. 



PART III. Special Therapeutics. Consists of 280 pages, in which diseases are 

 taken up in alphabetical order and the treatment indicated in each concisely stated. 

 This section contains a vast number of suggestions and over 650 Prescriptions, For- 

 mulae, etc. 



APPENDIX, containing many useful Tables of Differential Diagnosis, Lists of 

 Latin Phrases, Hyperdermic and Patent Medicine Formulae, etc. 



INDEX, 38 pages, double column, very carefully prepared. 



