The Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics

This encyclopaedic work, a pioneering text in pharmacology, is reissued here in its revised and expanded fourth edition (1854–7).

Jonathan Pereira (Author)

9781108068833, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 23 January 2014

734 pages, 197 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 4.1 cm, 1.06 kg

After training as an apothecary and surgeon, Jonathan Pereira (1804–53) taught materia medica for many years. His lectures at the medical school in London's Aldersgate Street were highly successful and formed the basis for the first edition of his major encyclopaedic work on medicinal substances. A pioneering text in the field of pharmacology, Pereira's work, which he subsequently updated in further editions, provided pharmacists and medical professionals with a more rigorous scientific understanding of the drugs and remedies they prescribed. After Pereira's death, medical jurist Alfred Swaine Taylor (1806–80) and physician George Owen Rees (1813–89) prepared this revised and expanded fourth edition, interspersed with instructive woodcuts. Volume 2 is divided into two parts. Part 1 (1855) continues with articles on special pharmacology, moving on from inorganic compounds to discuss the medicinal properties of organic compounds.

Preface to the fourth edition
Part I. Thallogens: 1. Algae
2. Lichenes
3. Fungi
Part II. Scrogens: 4. Filices
5. Lycopodiaceae
Part III. Endogenae: 6. Gramineae
7. Cyperaceae
8. Aroideae
9. Palmae
10. Melanthaceae
11. Liliaceae
12. Iridaceae
13. Taccaceae
14. Amaryllidaceae
15. Musaceae
16. Marantaceae
17. Zingiberaceae
18. Orchideae
19. Dioscoreaceae
20. Smilaceae
Part IV. Exogenae: 21. Cycadaceae
22. Pinaceae
23. Taxaceae
24. Liquidambaraceae
25. Salicaceae
26. Cupuliferae
27. Ulmaceae
28. Urticaceae
29. Cannabinaceae
30. Moraceae
31. Artocarpaceae
32. Piperaceae
33. Euphorbiaceae
34. Aristolochiaceae
35. Lauraceae
36. Myristicaceae
37. Thymelaceae
38. Polygonaceae
39. Salsolaceae
40. Labiatae
41. Scrophulariaceae
42. Solanaceae
43. Boraginaceae
44. Convolvulaceae
45. Gentianaceae
46. Loganiaceae
47. Asclepiadaceae
48. Oleaceae
49. Styracaceae
50. Sapotaceae
Index.

Subject Areas: Botany & plant sciences [PST]