3. A copious Appendix, embracing an account of all substances not contained in the official catalogues, which are used in medicine, or have any interest for the physician or apothecary. By Geo. B. Wood, M.D., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, etc. etc., and Franklin Bache, M.D., Professor of Chemistry in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, etc. etc. Eleventh edition, much enlarged. One vol. 8vo. $6.00.
This work has been thoroughly revised, with many alterations and additions, so as to bring it fully up to the level of the present state of materia medica and pharmacy. It embraces the substance of the recently revised United States and British Pharmacopœias, with a commentary on all that is new in those publications. Nothing, indeed, has been omitted in the revision which could render it worthy of the confidence it has enjoyed.
Wood’s Therapeutics.
A Treatise on Therapeutics and Pharmacology, or Materia Medica. By Geo. B. Wood, M.D., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, Senior Physician of the Pennsylvania Hospital, one of the authors of the United States Dispensatory, author of a Treatise on the Practice of Medicine, etc. etc. Two vols. 8vo. $7.00.
In his preface Dr. Wood gives the following account of his opportunities for acquiring knowledge and forming just views on the subjects embraced in this treatise:—
“Almost from the commencement of his professional life the author has given peculiar attention to this branch of medical knowledge. For a period of about thirty years, before 1850, when he was transferred to the professorship which he now occupies, he was engaged in teaching materia medica, first as a private lecturer, and afterwards successively in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and the University of Pennsylvania. His position, therefore, rendered constant investigations into the properties, effects, and uses of remedies necessary in order at once to do justice to his pupils and avoid discredit to himself. Most of those whom he now addresses are probably aware that he is one of the authors of the United States Dispensatory. To provide the original materials for his portion of that work, and to gather from time to time the knowledge requisite for its maintenance upon a level with the progressive condition of medical science, unremitting diligence was essential in prosecuting inquiry and investigation in the whole field of pharmacology. In addition to the ordinary professional opportunities, he has for about twenty years held the office of one of the physicians of the Pennsylvania Hospital, which has given him facilities for testing the value of remedies greater than any amount of private practice could afford. Few persons have had greater advantages or stronger inducements than himself for acquiring the knowledge requisite for the production of a work of this kind.”
Wood’s Lectures and Addresses.
Introductory Lectures and Addresses on Medical Subjects. Delivered chiefly before the medical classes of the University of Pennsylvania. By Geo. B. Wood, M.D., LL.D., President of the American Philosophical Society, Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, and of Clinical Medicine, in the University of Pennsylvania, etc. etc. One vol. 8vo. $1.75.