Excerpt from The Action of Medicines
The daily increasing interest in a knowledge of the physiological action of medicines is ray motive in the publication of this book. The first volume on the physiological action of remedies was by Professor Nothnagel, followed by Professors H.C Wood, Jr., Kohler, Hermann, and Brunton. The success of these works shows that the profession are seeking a more scientific basis in the explanation of therapeutic action. The study of the action of medicines has a threefold object: 1 st. The advancement of Physiology; 2 d.The explanation of a therapeutic action; 3 d.The science of Toxicology in the discovery of antidotes, etc. To my mind the study of the action of a drug on the lower animals is the best practical training in science that a medical man can have. It gives to him a logical precision that will be most beneficial in his whole therapeutic life. He will not be apt to decide that because a certain result has followed the use of condurango that it is a valuable therapeutic agent or a specific. In this study he must perforce be made acquainted with the most important physiological functions.
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