Excerpt from A Laboratory Guide in Pharmacology The following exercises are designed to introduce the student personally to some of the more important facts of pharmacology. They have been selected so as to present little difficulty to one versed in ordinary chemic and physiologic technic, and require but little help on the part of the instructor. The pharmaceutic and toxicologic exercises (Part I) are confined strictly to the bare essentials needed by students who intend to become general practitioners of medicine. Especial stress has been laid on the facts which have a direct practical bearing. The experiments on animals (Part Ii) have been arranged in groups, to illustrate various types or phenomena, to bring out the similarities and differences of the response of organs to pharmacologic agents, rather than by individual drugs. This arrangement articulates better with the student's experience in physiology and pathology, on which pharmacology is largely founded. It is, therefore, more natural, as well as more interesting and inspiring. It has been the practice of the author to have this experimental course precede the didactic course. The latter, dealing with individual drugs, can then be based upon phenomena with which the student is already familiar. The exercises are arranged for a course of thirty working periods of two to three hours. Additional experiments, for longer courses, demonstrations, etc., are introduced as optional. They can, of course, be indefinitely extended by the use of dose tables and of the "Technical Notes." These are intended primarily for the instructor and investigator, indicating the sources where more detailed information and different methods may be found. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.