This section is from the book "A Practitioner's Handbook Of Materia Medica And Therapeutics", by Thos. S. Blair. Also available from Amazon: A Practitioner's handbook of Materia Medica and Therapeutics.
The drugs and preparations appearing in this book are, with few exceptions, given their official titles and appear in alphabetical order. Cross references are used where their importance justifies the use of space, but there are so many common, chemical, and botanical names, synonyms, and sectarian titles that they are gathered together in this index. Page numbers are not needed, as all indexed names appearing in bold type are found in their alphabetical order, while those in less conspicuous type are immediately followed by the title under which they are treated, placed in brackets, as, for instance:
Jaborandi (Pilocarpus)
Jimson weed (Stramonium)
Phenylis salicylis (Salol)
Rhus toxicodendron Thus, Pilocarpus appears under its own title, while Jimson weed will be entered as Stramonium. Salts are not indexed. Sulphate of zinc appears under Zinc salts. Individual preparations are not indexed. Tinctures, fluidextracts, etc., are not indexed, but preparations having no uniform basis of strength are briefly noted in the text and are indexed as Unguentum, Spirits, etc., the U. S. P. ointments, for instance, all appearing under the one heading. Complicated chemical names, except U. S. P. titles, will not appear, nor will common names not generally in use. Many drugs, doubtless of some utility, are not found here because of their having fallen into pretty general disuse. On the other hand, some very inferior remedies are noted because they are in regular use in some school of medicine, and they appear as a matter of reference. No attempt is made to list the multitude of synthetics. U.S.P. agents used pharmaceutically only are not touched upon.
Abrus precatorius (Jequirity)
Acetanilide Acetous Tinctures
Acetphenetidinum (Phenacetin)
Acidum:
Aceticum (Acids of minor importance)
Arsenous (Arsen trioxidum)
Benzoidum
Boricum Camphoricum (Ac. of minor import.) Carbolicum (Phenol) Citricum (Ac. of minor import.)
Hydriodicum
Hydrocyanicum (Ac. of minor import) Lacticum (Ac. of minor import) Nitricum
Nitrohydrochloricum (Ac. minor import)
Ocalic (Ac. minor imp.)
Phosphoricum
Picricum
Salicylicum
Sulphuricum (Ac. minor imp.) Tannicum (Ac. minor imp.) Tarticum (Ac. minor imp.) Trichloraceticum (Ac. minor imp.)
Acids Of Minor Therapeutic Importance
Acorn kernels (Quercus)
Aesculus Aether (Ether) Agaricin (Agaricus)
thane) Agaricus muscarius
Alder (Alnus)
Aletris farinose
Aloin (Aloes)
American Hellebore (Ve-ratrum vir.)
Ammonium Bromide Carbonate Chloride Iodide
Valerianate
Anemone (Pulsatilla)
Anthemis (Chamomilla)
Antimonii et pot. tart.
Apomorphine
Aquae (Waters, medicat ed)
Arbutus (Epigaea)
Arsenicum album (Arse-nii trioxidum)
Bismuth beta-naptholate Subnitrate
Bitter broom (Parthe-nium)
Bitter candytuft (Iberis)
Bittersweet (Dulcamara)
Bitter wood (Quassia)
Blackberry (Rubus)
Black cohosh (Cimici-fuga)
Black haw (Viburnum prun.)
Black lead (Graphites)
Black nightshade (Sola-num)
Iodide Arsenii trioxidum Arsenite of copper (Cop
per arsenite) Artemisia pauciflora
(Cina) Asafoetida Asclepias tuberosa Aspidium Aspidosperma(Quebra
cho) Atropine (Belladonna) Aurum (Gold) Avena sativa Aviaire (Tuberculin) Bacillinum (Tuberculin) Balm of Gilead (Populus
candicans) Balsam Peru Balsam tolutani (Tolu) Baptisia tinctoria Barosma (Buchu) Baryta carbonate
Muriate Bayberry (Myrica) Bearberry (Uva Ursi) Bearsfoot (Polymnia) Bee virus (Apis mellifica)
Belladonna Benzosulphinidum (Sac
charin) Berberine
Berberis aquifolium Butyl-chloral hydrate Cactus Caffeine Cajuput
Calabar bean (Physostig-ma) Calcarea (Calcium) Calcium salts Calx (Calcium) Calendula Calomel (Mercury) Calotropis Caltha palustris Cambogia (Gamboge) Camphora
Black snakeroot (Cimici-fuga)
Blood-root (Sanguinaria)
Blue cohosh (Caulophyl-lum)
Blue flag (Iris)
Blue mass (Mass)
Boneset (Eupatorium)
Bromelin (Pineapple)
Bromoform (Bromine)
Broom (Scoparius)
Buckeye (Aesculus)
Buchu
Bugleweed (Lycopus)
Burdock (Lappa)
Buttercup (Ranunculus)
Butternut (Juglans)
Celandine (Chelidonium)
Ceratum (Unguentum)
Cereus (Cactus)
Cevadilla (Sabadilla)
Chamomilla
Charcoal (Carbo ligni)
Chelidonium.
Cherry laurel (Laurocera-sus)
China (Cinchona)
Chinese sumach (Ail an-thus)
Chloral amide (ChloraIfor-mamidum)
Chloral
Christmas rose (HeIIebo-rus)
Cicutine (Cicuta)
Cimicifuga racemosa
Cina
Cinchona
Cinnabaris (Mercurius)
Cinnamomum (Cinnamon)
Canadian hemp (Apocy num)
Candytuft (Iberis)
Cantharidin (Cantharis)
Cantharis
Capsella (Thlaspi bursa pastoris)
Carbolate of camphor (Camphora)
Carbo ligni
Caroba tree (Jacaranda)
"Caroid" (Papaya)
Cataplasm a kaolini (Kaolin)
Catechu (Gambir)
Caulophyllum
Club moss (Lycopodium)
Cocainae
Cochineal (Coccus)
Cocklebur (Xanthium)
Codeina
Cola (Kola)
Colchicine (Colchicum)
Colchicum
Collinsonia
Colocynthus
Cone flower (Echinacea)
Conicine (Cicuta)
Coniine (Cicuta and Co-nium)
ConvaIIamarin (ConvaIIa hydratumria)
Couch grass (Triticum)
Cuprum (Copper)
Corn silk (Zea)
Corkwood Tree (Dubois-ine)
Cotton-root (Gossypii)
Cowslip (Caltha)
Cramp bark (Viburnum op.)
Cranesbill (Geranium)
Creolin
Cresol (Creolin)
Crocus (Saffron)
Croton Chloral (Butyl-chloral hydrate)
Cud weed (Guaphalium)
Culver's root (Leptandra)
Cystogen (Formalde hyde)
Dandelion (Taraxacum)
Dock (Rumex)
Dulcamara
Duotol (Guaiacol)
Dusty miller (Cineraria)
 
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