The Edinburgh new dispensatory : Containing I. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. II. The materia medica; or, The natural, pharmaceutical and medical history, of the substances employed in medicine. III. The pharmaceutical preparations and compositions. Including translations of the latest editions of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias / by Andrew Duncan.

  • Duncan Andrew, 1773-1832.
Date:
1813
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Credit: The Edinburgh new dispensatory : Containing I. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. II. The materia medica; or, The natural, pharmaceutical and medical history, of the substances employed in medicine. III. The pharmaceutical preparations and compositions. Including translations of the latest editions of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias / by Andrew Duncan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2. Yellow Bark. Qtiina naranjada, Callisaya. This is the bark of the Cinchona cordifolia of Mutis, under which Zea, ac~ cordin'1- to Fabbroni, includes the hirsuta, ovata, purpurea and mi- crantha of the Flora Peruviana, the pubescens of Vahl. Humboldt and Bonpland give as synonimes of the C. pubescens of Vahl, Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. Haf. 1. p. 19. t. 2. and Symb. 13ot. p. 2. p. 37; Lambert, p. 21. t. 2. Willd. Sp. PI. p. 958 ; the C. officinalis Linn. Syst. Nat. edit. 12. p. 164 ; Syst. Veget. edit. 13. p. 178; Suppl. p. 144; Gaertner de fruct. et sem. t. 1. p. 169. t. 33. f. 4. But Drs Powell and A. T. Thomson also include under the C. cordi- folia of Mutis, the C. macrocarpa of Willdenow, misled probably by the confusion among the synonimes cited ; for Ruiz, Fior. Peruv. vol. 3.' p. 3. t. 198. has referred it to a new genus under the title of Cosmibuena obtusifolia, of which Humboldt and Bonp- land have given the following synonimes : Cinchona macrocarpa, Vahl, Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. Haf. 1. p. 20. t. 3. without the sy- nonimes ; Lambert, p. 22. t, 3. Willd. Sp. PI. p. 598. without the synonimes : Cinch, ovalfolia of Mutis, and grandiflora of Ruiz and Pavon. Flor- Peruv. p. 54. f. 198 ; and Fabbroni says it is the White bark of the English. The Cinchona cordifolia grows in the province of Cuenca, where there is also immense quantities of another species, called Cascarillapelucla, which Humboldt has described under the name of Cinchona ovalifolia. Its bark is not much esteemed, hut a great quantity of it was cut about twenty years ago. In all the editions the plan and arrangement adopt- ed by Dr Lewis has been followed. The work is divided into three parts. The first contains Elements of Pharmacy ; the second the Materia Medica ; and the last, the Preparations and Compositions. The first of these is entirely new, nothing being retained but the title. It is divided into two sections. rIhe first contains a very concise account of some of the general doctrines of Chemistry, and of the pro- perties of all simple bodies, and the generic charac- ters of compound bodies. In the second part, the Operations oj Pharmacy, and the necessary apparatus, are described ; and an Appendix is added, contarn- ]ng many very useful tables, and the explanation of the plates.