Useful Drugs, Prepared Under the Direction and Supervision of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Association: A List of ... Medica and Especially to Serve as a Basis f - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Useful Drugs, Prepared Under the Direction and Supervision of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Association: A List of Drugs Selected to Supply the Demand for a Less Extensive Materia Medica and Especially to Serve as a Basis for the Teaching of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, and for Examinations on These Subjects by State Licensing Boards

Heroin was included in Useful Drugs because of its extensive use in coughs, etc. This use originated largely because of claims, no longer accepted, that heroin was a safe drug. Especially from the habit producing standpoint, as well as on account of other claimed advantages which further work has failed to confirm.

The Council holds that heroin has no advantage over mor phin; that it shares every disadvantage of morphin; and that, on the whole, its introduction has been harmful, in that it furnished a specious means on the one hand for avoiding the well founded popular fears of morphin by substituting another habit-forming drug.

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