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CONTENTS.

Prefaces ........ PAGE
Definition of Subjects ......
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Action of Medicinal Substances ...... 17
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Abbreviations, with Latin and English Terms .... 22
Tables for preparing Percentage Solutions and Rule . . .20, 22
Approximate Measurements ......
Measuring Liquids by Drops ...... 24
Fineness of Powder ....... 25

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Weights and Measures . . . . ... 26
Metric or French Decimal System of Weights and Measures . 27
Rules for Regulating Doses ...... .29
Table of Equivalents
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Topical Remedies .......
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The Endermic Method ...... 32
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Counter-irritants ....... 32
The Hypodermic Method
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Setons and Issues .......
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General Bloodletting ...... 34
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Local Bloodletting by Leeching, Cupping and Scarifications . . 34
Incompatibility ........ 35
Electricity as a Therapeutic Means in the Treatment of Disease .
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Table of Doses of all Officinal Medicines, Expressed in Terms of both
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the Apothecaries' and the Decimal Metric System of Weights and
Poisons—Symptoms and Antidotes ..... 43
The Pulse ........
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Pulsation per Minute at Various Ages . . • . . 68
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Respiration at Various Ages . . . . . , 71
Temperature........ .71
Thermometers
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Table of Elementary Substances ..... 72
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