RT Journal
T1 TEchnic of medication
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD April 2
VO 139
IS 14
SP 967
OP 967
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900310071026
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900310071026
AB This book does just what its title implies. It describes in detail the methods by which medication can be given, including special indications and means of preventing untoward effects. The author has wisely refrained from making the book cumbersome by a discussion of the treatment of individual diseases. Thus there is a considerable amount of useful information not ordinarily found in textbooks of medicine or therapeutics. A short introduction in which the trends in therapeutics and the relationship of drug therapy to other forms of treatment are discussed is followed by a chapter on the prescription. Since prescriptions are now written in English, contain as a rule only one active ingredient, and the dosage is given in the metric system, it is no longer necessary to devote considerable space to Latin endings, incompatibilities or methods of calculating doses. Instead, Dr. Smith has provided a concise discussion of the choice of