Excerpt from The Chemistry of Synthetic Drugs This book contains more than a mere description of the chemical nature and mode of preparation of many synthetic drugs. For a scientific understanding of the subject, it is necessary to pay considerable attention to reactions taking place between the drug and the living organism whenever these can be traced, and to the rela tion between the chemical character of a substance and its pharmacological action, even though this relation is neither so complete nor so simple as might ...
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Excerpt from The Chemistry of Synthetic Drugs This book contains more than a mere description of the chemical nature and mode of preparation of many synthetic drugs. For a scientific understanding of the subject, it is necessary to pay considerable attention to reactions taking place between the drug and the living organism whenever these can be traced, and to the rela tion between the chemical character of a substance and its pharmacological action, even though this relation is neither so complete nor so simple as might be desired, and is con fined to only a few of the numerous chemical compounds that are used as drugs. It has been thought desirable to mention briefly the therapeutic effect of most of the chief drugs, so that readers may gain some idea of their relative importance, but no attempt has been made to deal in any detail with pharma oology or therapeutics, subjects which lie quite outside the scope and aim of this book. It has been neither possible nor necessary to mention all the synthetic drugs which have been prepared in recent years, as many of them pos sess neither scientific nor therapeutic value. Besides the practical importance and inherent interest of the subject, it may also be of great value as a means of opening up new channels of research and of discovering new types of compounds. Just as the discovery of the coal-tar colours gave a great stimulus to the study of aromatic compounds, so the efforts to produce new drugs have led to a greatly increased knowledge of certain types of compounds, as for example those containing carbon united to arsenic and antimony. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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