Theory of Vitality and Its Relations to Materia Medica

Unani system of medicine and development of its materia medica

Pharmacy which is an art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and Materia Medica gives the names, sources physical characters and chemical properties of herbs or substances used in medicine and their doses have been interwoven connected with medicine from the time immorial. This can be traced back to the findings of ancient Egyptian and Unani Physician like Hippocrates (460-377 B.C) Di...

Aids to Materia Medica

Materia Medica.-By Arnold E. ColuE. London, Bailliere, Tindall and Cox. This small volume, in the Students' Aids Series, is an attempt to provide students of Materia Medica with the means of memorising the essentials required by the examining bodies of the Conjoint Board in England, Conjoint Board in Scotland, Conjoint Board in Ireland, Society of Apothecaries of London and Apothecaries Hall of...

Aids to Materia Medica

I i!s rItecen1t (fourtli) edition1 of Dr),. N(wnS popular little '' Aids' w%ill, the reviewer feels, h)e as wel(-lI received as have 1)10n its pre((IvcessorsI. 'I'lhe general layout of the book1 is similar-, there being a simiiply presente(l yet valuable initroductionl, this being followed by the main body of the book which is divided into two parts. Part one is further subdivided into two part...

Aids to Materia Medica

uses and actions of the official inorganic materia medica; brief but clear statements about such accessory methods of treatment as clothing, baths, bleeding, and such like, and, in addition, a consideration of many general topics, such as prescribing, the alterations in the last edition of the British Pharmacopoeia, and other matters. Part II. is devoted to the consideration of drugs of vegetab...

Aids to Materia Medica