The pharmacopœia of the Royal College of Physicians of London, M.DCCC.IX : translated into English, with notes, &c.

  • Richard Powell
Date:
1809
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Credit: The pharmacopœia of the Royal College of Physicians of London, M.DCCC.IX : translated into English, with notes, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    its application ; it may suffice for compounds of a few constituent parts only, but must be dropped in those numerous complex combina- tions which are daily presented to us by nature and art; and on these accounts Mineralogy, which is but a branch of chemistry, has found the necessity of adopting arbitrary terms to desig- nate its particular subjects. Of all these inconve- niences the College have felt the full force; but they have finally judged it proper, for the sake of uniformity and consistency, in adopting the products of chemistry, to adopt also its lan- guage, to go farther in this respect than the Pharmacopoeia of 1787 had done, and to do away those peculiarities of nomenclature which were then established.' There are still, how- ever, many names which, chemically speaking, will not be found to be correct; as in instances where the substances have been too complex to be expressed without a periphrasis, which would render them but ill suited to the purposes of prescription, or where the established name neither contradicted the received doctrines of chemistry, nor was liable to mislead in its ap- plication. The expression also of the relative proportions of the constituent parts of certain salts which unite in more than one, by prefix- ing Sub or Super, according to circumstances, has been adopted in those cases only in which' the compounds of more than one proportion
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