Pharmaceutical botany - Lighthouse Survival Blog

FOREWORD
In a monograph entitled "An Old System and a New Science,"
published in 1882, I advocated a return to the classification in which
knowledge relating to the Materia Medica is embraced under the
general head "Pharmacology"; in my address as Chairman of the
Section on Materia Medica, Pharmacy and Therapeutics, delivered at
the forty-seventh annual meeting (1896) of the American Medical
Association, the same was again suggested; and in numerous papers on
the subject since contributed to medical and pharmaceutical societies
and press, the same plea was repeated. It is therefore gratifying to
note the adoption of this classification by the National Committee
Representing the Boards and Schools of Pharmacy of the United
States for its "Pharmaceutical Syllabus," and also to note its incorporation
into the New York State Pharmacy Law and adoption by
the Board of Regents of the State of New York for the guidance of
teachers of pharmacy in that state.
Pharmacology in its widest scope embraces the study of drugs from
every possible point of view. As limited to the study of the changes
incited in living organisms by the administration of drugs, we have
excellent text books by Cushney, Sollman and others. But these
works demand for their proper study more extended education than
required by the national syllabus or the needs of the pharmaceutical
student. The object of the Stewart Pharmacologic Manuals is to supply
text books suitable for pharmacists and pharmaceutical colleges, and
prepared in accordance with the national syllabus.
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F. E. S.