Concentrated Organic Medicines; Being a Practical Exposition of the Therapeutic Properties and Clinical Employment of the Combined Proximate Medicinal

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: textit{specific properties, manifested, however, not uniformly, butin textit{specific conditions. The condition ascertained, and adaptation of a suitable remedy being had, a manifestation of its specific powers may reasonably be expected. That those of the profession into whose hands this volume may fall, will receive and test the opinions and statements put forth by the author, and render their verdict in the same spirit in which it was indicted, is the wish of Their obedient servant, GROVER COE. . Wilmington, N. C., June, 1860. CHAPTER I CKTJDE OKGANIO KEMEDIE8. ejections to their Use Of Uncertain Value Frequently Inert Facts of Analysis, etc. The essential pre-requisites to the successful employment of Organic Remedies, are the possession of textit{specific therapeutic powers, uniformity of strength, non-liability to deteriorate by age, and convenience of administration. Such remedies, either simple or compound, may be appropriately termed textit{positive medical agents. Positive, not because they will textit{infallibly cure disease, but because their sensible properties are textit{definite, uniform, and textit{certain. Such are the remedies of which it is proposed to treat in the present volume. In order to demonstrate the correctness of this appellation, it will be necessary to point out the deficiencies of crude medicines, and, by contrast, make apparent the superior claims of concentrated remedies to our confidence. To this end we shall endeavor to adduce a few facts in support of the exceptions we have taken to the use of crude remedies at the head of this chapter. We have charged that they are of uncertain remedial value. By this we mean to be understood, that plants of the same species vary infinitely as to the amount of proximate princi...