SELECTED PRESCRIPTIONS FROM PRACTITIONERS' CASE-BOOKS. In illustration of the general principles already laid down as to the doses of medicines, and in continuation of the subject of the applicability of remedial agents to a multitude of morbid conditions, the following prescriptions, culled from an immense mass of such material kindly placed at the disposal of the author, will doubtless prove of practical service. Being the fresh and very recent formulæ employed by leading medical men in active professional practice, whose daily experience is but a reflexion and counterpart of that of every other busy practitioner in all portions of the country, such prescriptions offer at once desirable methods of combining reliable medicines and indicate some of the applications of the more modern remedies. They may also, in some instances, by suggesting new trains of thought, aid to lift the mere routinist above the level of a blind adherence to fixed modes of prescribing and dispensing medicines. It is desirable, indeed, that even with the formulæ now offered, the practitioner should intelligently appreciate the motives for making such combinations of various agents in the same prescription, and under no other circumstances adopt any of them in his own practice. No attempt has been made to give anything like completeness to this merely illustrative collection of scattered formulæ. |