THE

ESSENTIALS

OF

MATERIA MEDICA

AND

THERAPEUTICS.

THE

ESSENTIALS

OF

MATERIA MEDICA

AND

THERAPEUTICS.

BY

ALFRED BARING GARROD, M.D., F.R.S.,

Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; Consulting Physician to King's College Hospital:
late Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics at King's College, and Examiner
in Materia Medica at the University of London.

ELEVENTH EDITION.

REVISED

AND EDITED, UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE AUTHOR,
BY NESTOR TIRARD, M.D. LOND.,

Member of the Royal College of Physicians; Fellow of King's College, London; Professor of
Materia Medica and Therapeutics at King's College; Assistant Physician to King's
College Hospital; and Physician to the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children.

LONDON:

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1885.

1692. e 17.

PREFACE.

THE continued popularity of the present Work affords sufficient proof that it supplies a real want, I have endeavoured to render it more worthy of the acceptance of practitioners and students of medicine, without in any way altering its character or adding sensibly to its bulk.

Though much new material has been introduced into the present edition to bring it into accordance with the "British Pharmacopoeia" of 1885, yet space has been gained by numerous excisions of articles on drugs no longer employed, and by the alteration of type for the official preparations; and the value of the book as a student's text-book has in this way been considerably enhanced. The chemistry has been revised throughout, and many articles have been enlarged and rewritten. The sections on Therapeutics and Mineral Waters have been rearranged and partially re-written, in order that they should contain the most recent information on these subjects.