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IT is a difficult matter to produce a text-book of materia medica which shall answer the requirements of the student in these days. No subject is less clearly defined either by teachers or by the authorities at Examining Boards. Prof. Bentley, indicates this difficulty in his introduction, where he first defines “materia medica” and the allied words “pharmacology” and “therapeutics,” and then confesses that our first English authority in this department of science, Dr. Lauder Brunton, has used some of the terms in a different sense. There is one advantage, however, in this difference of view—namely, a variety in the treatment of the subject; and we have to thank Prof. Bentley for having produced a work which departs in many directions from the somewhat stereotyped arrangement of English works on materia medica.
A Text-book of Organic Materia Medica.
By Robert Bentley Cr. 8vo. pp. 415. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887.)
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Our Book Shelf . Nature 37, 460–461 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037460b0
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