Modern Dental Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Including the Practical Application of Drugs and Remedies in the Treatment of Disease (Classic Reprint)

Therefore, it is better, in the authors opinion to avoid even the suggestion of questions pertaining to prescriptions at this time. By thus deferring the study of Prescription Writing to about the close of the Junior year, an excellent opportunity is afforded for practice work throughout the entireS enior year when Practical Therapeutics is taught. By this means only can students become good prescription writers a faculty not developed by the average dentist. The second part of the book is devoted toP ractical Dental Therapeutics. In writing it the author was actuated by the belief thatD ental Therapeutics is of sufficient importance to occupy a place in dentistry by itself. It is to be hoped that this subject may ultimately be divorced from Operative Dentistry, to which it has long been subordinated. No attempt has been made to describe all of the many methods of treatment, nor to give the endless formulas suggested in the various text-books and journals, for the pathologic conditions mentioned herein. To do so would lead to confusion, as well as make the book unnecessarily voluminous, in which case the word practical in connection ith therapeutics, as used here, would be a misnomer. Therefore, in most instances, only the methods by which the conditions are treated in the authors own practice are detailed. These methods, of course, are not wholly original. They have been gleaned from clinical experience, from extensive reading, and from observation and association with other practitioners; and in both private and infirmary practice they have given good results. The prescriptions for remedies, for the most part, are original with the author, and have been worked out along the lines of practical pharmacy and therapeutics. Where the formulas are not original, due credit, so far as is known, has been given. It is unnecessary to profusely illustrate a book of th
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