Essential Clinical Pharmacology

This book is about drugs and how they are used in the treat­ ment of disease. The development of effective drugs is one of the wonders of our century. It is difficult to believe that so few of the medicines we now use routinely were available when our grandparents were children. The last 50 years has seen an astonishing burst of dis­ coveries - antibiotics, antihypertensives, antiarrhythmics, psycho­ tropics, anticonvulsants, steroids and many others. Of course this pace of advance has brought p