FOREWORD 



In a monograph entitled "An Old System and a New Science," 

 published in 1882, I advocated a return to the classification in which 

 knowledge relating to the Materia Medica is embraced under the 

 general head "Pharmacology"; in my address as Chairman of the 

 Section on Materia Medica, Pharmacy and Therapeutics, delivered at 

 the forty-seventh annual meeting (1896) of the American Medical 

 Association, the same was again suggested; and in numerous papers on 

 the subject since contributed to medical and pharmaceutical societies 

 and press, the same plea was repeated. It is therefore gratifying to 

 note the adoption of this classification by the National Committee 

 Representing the Boards and Schools of Pharmacy of the United 

 States for its "Pharmaceutical Syllabus," and also to note its in- 

 corporation into the New York State Pharmacy Law and adoption by 

 the Board of Regents of the State of New York for the guidance of 

 teachers of pharmacy in that state. 



Pharmacology in its widest scope embraces the study of drugs from 

 every possible point of view. As limited to the study of the changes 

 incited in living organisms by the administration of drugs, we have 

 excellent text books by Cushney, Sollman and others. But these 

 works demand for their proper study more extended education than 

 required by the national syllabus or the needs of the pharmaceutical 

 student. The object of the Stewart Pharmacologic Manuals is to supply 

 text books suitable for pharmacists and pharmaceutical colleges, and 

 prepared in accordance with the national syllabus. 



F. E. S. 



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