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The dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians, London, translated into English with remarks, etc / By H. Pemberton.

  • Royal College of Physicians, London
Date:
1773
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Credit: The dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians, London, translated into English with remarks, etc / By H. Pemberton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The fame antidotarla have been made the general bafis of the modern .pharmaco- pceias likewife, though 'We know little more , of either author, than their having been the favourites of thofe barbarous times, wherein they lived. ■ The age of Mefue may with fome cer¬ tainty be determined j for in the Grabadirii of which the Ajitidotarium is a part, he quotes Avicenna *, who died towards the beginning of the eleventh century -j-, and is himfelf cited frequently by Conjiantinus Africanus, who' wrote before the end of that centuryAnd this is all can be afcertained of a writer, to whofe autho- * Under the name of Aboall and AhuhaJu See foU 214 E F G, 227 G, 249 B. {Edit. Venet. 1602.] f AbuUPharaj, p, 232. J Lambec. Biblioth. Cafar. Lib. VI. p. 128. It has been doubted whether the Johanries Damafcenus quot¬ ed by Conjiantinus is the fame with our Mefue. But where the citations refer to thofe parts of Mefue which are not now loft, they agree with the original as much as can be expefted from the diverfities inci- dent to diflerent copies; efpecially as Lambeclus a- ' bove referred to { Ibid. p. 126.] (hews what we have of Conflantinus to be a very imperfeft and cor¬ rupt tranfiation of that author. Compare pag. lOj 12, 32, 34, 37, of Conjiantinus with Mef {Edit. Ve^ net. ibO'lJfoU 112 G and 162 H, 205 H, 222 C, 22< E, 230 E, * rity ■ .I.....'-