A UNIQUE BOOK. 



POTTER'S MATERIA MEDICA, PHARMACY AND THERA- 

 PEUTICS. Second Edition. Revised and Enlarged. A Hand- 

 book; including the Physiological Action of Drugs, Special Therapeutics 

 of Diseases, Official and Extemporaneous Pharmacy, etc. By S. O. L. 

 POTTER, M.A., M.D., Professor of the Practice of Medicine in Cooper 

 Medical College, San Francisco; Late A. A. Surgeon, U. S. Army, etc. 

 A new Edition in larger type. Octavo. Cloth, $4.00; Leather, $5.00. 



DR. POTTER has become well known as an able compiler, by his Compends 

 of Anatomy, and of Materia Medica, both of which have reached four editions. 

 In this book, more elaborate in its design, he has shown his literary abilities to 

 much better advantage, and all who examine or use it will agree that he has 

 produced a work containing more correct information in a practical, concise 

 form than any other publication of the kind. The plan of the work is new, 

 and its contents have been combined and arranged in such a way that it offers 

 a compact statement of the subject in hand. 



PART I. MATERIA MEDICA and THERAPEUTICS, the drugs being arranged 

 in alphabetical order, with the synonym of each first; then the description of 

 the plant, its preparations, physiological action, and lastly its Therapeutics. 

 This part is preceded by a section on the classification of medicines as follows: 

 Agents acting on the Nervous System, Organs of Sense, Respiration, Circu- 

 lation, Digestive System, on Metabolism (including Restoratives, Alteratives, 

 Astringents, Antipyretics, Antiphlogistics and Antiperiodics, etc.). Agents act- 

 ing upon Excretion, the Generative System, the Cutaneous Surfaces, Microbes 

 and Ferments, and upon each other. 



PART II. PHARMACY AND PRESCRIPTION WRITING. Written for the use 

 of physicians who put up their own prescriptions. It includes Weights and 

 Measures, English and the Metric Systems. Specific Gravity and Volume. 

 Prescriptions. Their principles and combinations ; proper methods of writing 

 them; abbreviations used, etc. Stock solutions and preparations, such as a 

 doctor should have to compound his own prescriptions. Incompatibility, 

 Pharmaceutical and Therapeutical. Liquid, Solid and Gaseous Extempo- 

 raneous Prescriptions. 



PART III. SPECIAL THERAPEUTICS, an alphabetical List of Diseases a 

 real INDEX OF DISEASES giving the drugs that have been found serviceable 

 in each disease, and the authority recommending the use of each ; a very im- 

 portant feature, as it gives an authoritative character to the book that is unusual 

 in works on Therapeutics, and displays an immense amount of research on the 

 part of the author. 600 prescriptions are given in this part, many being over 

 the names of eminent men. 



THE APPENDIX contains lists of Latin words, phrases and abbreviations, with 

 their English equivalents, used in medicine, Genitive Case Endings, etc. 36 

 Formulae for Hypodermic Injections; a comparison of 10 Formulae of Chloro- 

 dyne; Formulae of prominent patent medicines; Poisons and their Antidotes; 

 Differential Diagnosis ; Notes on Temperature in Disease ; Obstetrical Memo- 

 randa; Clinical Examination of Urine; Medical Ethics; Table of Specific 

 Gravities and Volumes ; Table showing the number of drops in a fluidrachm 

 of various liquids and the weight of one fluidrachm in grains, and a table for 

 converting apothecaries' weights and measures into grams. 



A MINE OF WEALTH FOR THE STUDENT. 



