A supplement to the Pharmacopoeia : being a treatise on pharmacology in general, including not only the drugs and compounds which are used by practitioners of medicine, but also most of those which are used in the chemical arts, or which undergo chemical preparations. Together with a collection of the most useful medical formulae, an explanation of the contractions used by physicians and druggists, and also a very copious index, English and Latin, of the various names by which the articles have been known at different periods / by Samuel Frederick Gray.

Samuel Frederick Gray

Date:: 1828

Credit: A supplement to the Pharmacopoeia : being a treatise on pharmacology in general, including not only the drugs and compounds which are used by practitioners of medicine, but also most of those which are used in the chemical arts, or which undergo chemical preparations. Together with a collection of the most useful medical formulae, an explanation of the contractions used by physicians and druggists, and also a very copious index, English and Latin, of the various names by which the articles have been known at different periods / by Samuel Frederick Gray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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as the ingredient for another, a circumstance that cannot be considered by the college as depending upon an infinite variety of circumstances, but which has a most material influence upon the price at which the articles can be brought into the market; and it may be added, that the chemicals are always identical, or nearly so, in whatever manner they are prepared. The Pharmacopoeia printed in 1815 is only a corrected impression of the edition of 1809; and the new Pharmacopoeia of 1824 is very slightly altered, in a few points, from its predecessor. To enforce the performance of the directions of the Pharmacopoeia, the censors of the college, and the wardens of the apothecaries, were, on the sepa- ration of the society of apothecaries from the company of grocers, empowered to search the shops of apothecaries in and about London, to destroy all they found unfaithfully prepared, and even fine the parties. The ill-will occasioned by this separation, and by the examination being re- ferred to the apothecaries, was so great that it was made one of the grievances complained of by the House of Commons in 1627 ; and from the answer made to this petition of grievances, by King James, in his last speech from the throne, a few months before his death, we learn that this separation was devised by our British Solomon himself*. * Petition of the Commons (in 1624) to the King, complain- ing of divers grievances.—[Cobbet's Parliamentary History, vol. i. col. 1491.] Apothecaries.] Whereas the apothecaries of the city of Lon- don have been anciently members of the Company of Grocers of the same city, and whereas the said grocers did and do far exceed the number of apothecaries, and did even buy and sell all manner of drugs as well as apothecaries, which drugs at several times of the year, were by the President and Censors of the College of the Physicians searched out and viewed whether the same were useful

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