CLASSIFICATION. 



I' -. ., ■ PART I. 



Inorganic Agents. 



Section I. — Water, and solution of hydrogen dioxide. 



Section II. — Allcaline metals; potassium, sodium, ammonium and lithium. 



Section III. — Alkaline earth metals; calcium, barium, magnesium, heavy metals- 



including Sections IV-VI. 

 Section IV.— Aluminum, cerium, plumbum, argentum, zincum, cuprum and bis- 



muthum. 

 Section V. — Ferrum, manganum. 

 Section VI. — Hydrargyrum. 



Section VII. — Arsenic, atoxyl, sodium cocodylate, antimony. 

 Section VIII. — Phosphorus. 



Section IX. — Clilorine, iodine, thyroid extract, bromine, orthoform 

 Section X. — Sulphur. 

 Section XI. — Acids. 

 Section XII.— Carbon Compounds. 



Class 1. Carbon. 



Class 2. Alcohol, ether, chloroform. 



Class 3. Nitrites. 



Class 4. Chloral, chloretone. 



Class 5. Antipyretics, analgesics. 



Class 6. Antiseptics. ^ 



Class 7. Miscellaneous carbon compounds. 



^ ,, j. PART II. 



' .' ' " '' " ■ Vegetable Drugs. 



Section I. — ^Drugs acting on the brain. 



Class 1. Depressing the brain: opium. 



Class 2. Stimulating the brain: belladonna. 

 Section II. — Drugs acting on the spinal cord. 



Class I. Stimulating the inferior cornua: nux vomica, strychnine. 



Class 2. Depressing the inferior cornua: physostigma, gelsemium. 

 Section III. — Drugs acting chiefly on the motor nerves. 



Class 1. Depressing the motor nerves: tobacco, conium and lobelia. 

 'Section IV. — ^Drugs acting on the sensory nerves. 



Class 1. Depressing the sensory nerves: cocaine, eucaine, stovaine, holocaine, 

 yohimbine, novocaine. 

 Section V. — Drugs acting on the secretory nferves. 



Class 1. Stimulating the secretory nerves: pilocarpus. 

 Sesctaon VI. — Drugs acting on the heart. 



Class 1. Increasing the force and decreasing the frequency of the heart: 

 / digitalis, strophanthus, convallaria and squill. 



Class 2. Decreasing the force and frequency of the heart: aconite, vera- 

 trum viride and album, veratrine. 

 .'Section VII. — Drugs acting on the respiration: ipecac. 

 Section VIII. — Vegetable antipyretics and antiseptics. 



Class 1. Cinchona and its alkaloids. 



Class 2. Salicylic acid, salacin, salol, oil of gaultheria and methyl salicylate, 

 aspirin. 

 S«3»on IX. — Volatile oils or drugs containing them. 



'Class 1. Used mainly for their action on the skin: turpentine, oil of tur- 



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