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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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    25 NARRATIVE.' ft fenate of Norhnherg*. This confifls althoft. intirely of colleftions from the two authors above mentioned, with iliort notes in rela¬ tion to fuch nanies of the plants and drugs in the compofitions, as were of doubtful fignification. And, the fubfequent pharma¬ copoeias paid aifo the like regard to thefe writers, however they might be rendered more copious by 'additions from other au¬ thors. Our own in particular,’ except the medicines taken from chdmiflry, which by that time had began to gain credit, con¬ fided originally of the ]iks collections from Mejiie and Nicolaus, witii fotne additions, chiefly from Fernelius, and by Sir Fbeodore Mayernc, both eminent for their unbounded ditFufivenefs in compofltion. ^ By the free introduction of chemical mcr- clicines our pharmacopoeia enlarged the plan, to which the former works of this kind had confined themfelves. The rife and progrefs of this part of pharmacy has been as follows. The Ara¬ bians together with the ufeful branches of knowledge, for which thefe parts of the world are indebted to them, brought alfo * Ann. 1542. ' among / [