Excerpt from Manual of General Medicinal Technology
The subject of general medicinal technology naturally divides itself into two parts, namely first, the technology of medicines, and, secondly, the technology of medicating. TO the former of these divisions belong the topics, severally, con cerning medicines, of the authority for the same, the technicalities of their naming and of their forms, the methods of determining quantities of them, and the art of their prescription While in the latter are included the two subjects of the different methods of applying medicines, and of the regulation of doses. These various topics will be treated of in the order named.