The Action of Medicines in the System Or, on the mode in which therapeutic agents introduced into the stomach produce their peculiar effects on the animal economy

It is the general opinion of modern chemists, that before the starch of the food can be applied to the maintenance of the animal heat, for which office it is chiefly intended, i...

The alkalies are useful in gout and rheumatism in diminishing the acidity both of the blood and of the secretions. It is often advantageous to apply an alkaline wash locally aro...

The chief objects for which I have designed this Fourth Chapter are that I may be enabled to illustrate some general principles of the action of medicines which have been laid d...

The first four of these concern the general conduct of medicines after their introduction into the stomach, and before their passage into the blood. Some broad rules are laid do...

I have thought it necessary, before stating at length my own conclusions, to refer to some of the more important statements of authors concerning the subject of which I have to...

In commencing this Essay on the Action of Medicines, I must confess that I feel at first a certain discomfort when I consider the magnitude of the task before me. Many a volume...

Thus an attention to diet is of great importance in the cure and alleviation of different diseases; for by this means we are enabled, within a certain limit, to regulate and con...

It must not be inferred, from what has been said on the importance of blood-medicines, that I am disposed to agree with those who would account for all diseases by some fault in...

That the great majority of medicines are capable of solution in the gastric or intestinal secretions, and pass without material change, by a process of absorption, through the c...