Translation of the Pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians, of London, 1851 : with notes and illustrations / by Richard Phillips.

  • Royal College of Physicians, London
Date:
1851
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Credit: Translation of the Pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians, of London, 1851 : with notes and illustrations / by Richard Phillips. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    PREFACE. nearly fourteen years have elapsed since the last correction and emendation of our Pharma- copoeia, many circumstances have at length induced us to resume the undertaking. If, in any manner, we have conferred a benefit on the Public by this issue of a new edition, we must acknowledge our obligations to our predeces- sors in the work, as having both incited us by their example and instructed us by their labours. Still however, we are desirous of prefixing a few observa- tions, not so much with the intention of discussing the whole subject matter of the book, as of eluci- dating and supporting if requisite by argument, whatever it may appear to contain presenting any novelty or ambiguity. First of all, then, it is to be remarked, that we have classed several medicines in the earlier division of the work which were formerly placed in the second part; as to those which are carefully and correctly prepared by ma- nufacturing chemists, we think it better to enume-
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