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Excerpt from Text-Book of Materia Medica for Nurses Those special lines are well defined, and are limited. They begin and end with medicines, and do not run into therapeutics. The application of medicine to dis ease is no part of a nurse 's study, and there are there fore some inconveniences met with in using - as text books - works on materia medica hich are written solely for the use of the medical profession. Large works, containing all the points which a nurse needs to know, contain also an immense amount of mat ter with which she has nothing to do, and are very ex pensive; while those which are more concise usually presuppose a large amount of information, and are, in deed, not intended to be used at the beginning of a course of study, but rather at the end. It is in the hope of filling this middle place that this text-book has been compiled, and the attempt made to collect from all available sources the scattered points which concern a nurse, and to give them simply and directly. The outlines followed are those of the classes in materia medica as taught in most of our Training Schools for nurses. And include something of the source and composition of drugs; their physiological actions; signs indicating their favorable or unfavorable results; the symptoms of poisons with their antidotes and prae tical points on administration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.