1. The action of medicines in the system: or on the mode in which therapeutic agents introduced into the stomach produce their peculiar effects on the animal economy : being the prize essay to which the Medical Society of London awarded the Fothergillian Gold Medal for MDCCCLII Author(s): Headland, Frederick William. Publication: Philadelphia : Lindsay and Blakiston, 1859 Subject(s): TherapeuticsPharmacological Phenomena