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Pharmacologia
John Ayrton Paris and John B. Beck
Superstition, credulity, false theories, blind devotion to authority: Paris opens his famous drug treatise by cataloging every way medicine had fooled itself for centuries. Then he rebuilds the science of remedies on what could actually be demonstrated. Witty, learned, and unsparing about quackery, Pharmacologia is both a pharmacy text and a lesson in skepticism. The rare textbook that doubles as entertainment.
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109 chapters
- 1PHARMACOLOGIA. FOURTH AMERICAN, FROM THE SEVENTH LONDON EDITION.
- 2CONTENTS
- 3PREFACE.
- 4HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION.
- 5SUPERSTITION.
- 6CREDULITY.
- 7SCEPTICISM.
- 8FALSE THEORIES, AND ABSURD CONCEITS.
- 9DEVOTION TO AUTHORITY, AND ESTABLISHED ROUTINE.
- 10THE ASSIGNING TO ART THAT WHICH WAS THE EFFECT OF UNASSISTED NATURE, OR THE CONSEQUENCE OF INCIDENTAL CHANGES OF HABIT, DIET, c.
- 11AMBIGUITY OF NOMENCLATURE.
- 12THE PROGRESS OF BOTANICAL SCIENCE.
- 13THE APPLICATION AND MISAPPLICATION OF CHEMICAL SCIENCE.
- 14THE INFLUENCE OF SOIL, CULTURE, CLIMATE, AND SEASON.
- 15THE IGNORANT PREPARATION AND FRAUDULENT ADULTERATION OF MEDICINES.
- 16THE UNSEASONABLE COLLECTION OF VEGETABLE REMEDIES.
- 17THE OBSCURITY WHICH HAS ATTENDED THE OPERATION OF COMPOUND MEDICINES.
- 18PHARMACOLOGIA. ON THE OPERATIONS OF MEDICINAL BODIES, AND ON THE CLASSIFICATIONS FOUNDED ON THEM.
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