Treatise on Therapeutics Materia Medica & Toxicology / H.C. Wood 1876

Description: A Treatise on Therapeutics comprising Materia Medica and Toxicology with Especial Reference to the Application of the Physiological Action of Drugs to Clinical Medicine',H,C. Wood, Jr., M.D.Lippincott, 1876. Second (Revised) Edition.B/W line drawings in appendix. Full leather over boards; four raised bands on spine, 674 pp + Lippincott catalog. / 6" x 9.75" Condition Notes: Overall quite good for a book of this age.* Covers / Spine: Some splitting of the leather at the hinges at the top and bottom of the spine. Heavy wear and spotting on the leather on the boards, spine, and edges, with fraying at corners.* Gutters/Cover Sheets: Firm with no splits. Moderate toning with occasional ink spots* Text Block: Square with no knocks or loose pages. Text is generally clean with very occasional thumb prints or brown spots, mostly on outer margins of pages. Browning, some tanning and spotting on the pages. Pages are well bound, not creased and in good condition. No PO marks. BInding firm and square This is a remarkably well preserved medical text book printed in 1876. Aside from cover wear this text is a fine addition to a library. Horatio Wood was a pioneer in experimental pharmacology and therapeutics, supplemented by other contributions to the field of materia medica. About fifty of his nearly three hundred publications dealt with pharmacology, experimental therapeutics, and physiology. A high proportion of this segment of his papers involved laboratory study of the physiological action of drugs in animals, still exceptional at the time. Wood became an early American exponent of the study of the physiological action of drugs under laboratory conditions and of classifying medicines according to such actions, thereby supplanting the primacy of empirical clinical experience as the basic guide to progressive therapeutics.

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