American Materia Medica, Therapeutics And Pharmacognosy (1915) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: John Uei Lloyd, Ph. M., Ph. D. LL. D. Need I say that my lifetime experience in pharmacy, devoted mainly to the study of preparations of plants, as well as to plant chemistry, which includes alkaloids, glucosides and other plant products, leads me to comprehend more fully than otherwise I might, the honor shown me by Professor Elling- wood, who has asked me to make a contribution in these lines for his forthcoming publication? Nor can I neglect to express the satisfaction I feel, in that the whole American medical profession, as well as the section of thoughtful pharmacists concerned in this direction, is becoming more and more impressed with the usefulness of remedial agents, prepared from the vegetable kingdom. To this is added a growing comprehension of the fact that the study of the pharmacy of plant organizations is a problem that needs take the utmost thought of the scientific man, and the utmost care of the manipulative pharmacist. The pharmacy of plant preparations has passed from the hands of the superficial experimenter, into the field of the closest scientific student, the evolution of satisfactory plant preparations being now fully comprehended by those experienced, as among the most difficult of all problems connected with the satisfactory preparation of therapeutic agents. I will further preface my remarks by saying that my lengthened experience has led me to hesitate to express myself concerning many problems in pharmacy that, at one time, would have presented to me no cause for hesitation. To speak more plainly, expanding views, influenced and guided by thoughtful work in pharmacy, have both widened my horizon and illuminated the space about, until I now see defects in my past work, and errors in judgment, formerly unperceived. I believe that this condition m...