The record of pharmacy and therapeutics : being an account of improved pharmaceutical preparations, recently-introduced remedies, and a catalogue of unadulterated drugs & chemicals of the General Apothecaries Company (Limited), 49, Berners Street, Oxford Street, London.

  • General Apothecaries Company (London, England)
Date:
1856
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Credit: The record of pharmacy and therapeutics : being an account of improved pharmaceutical preparations, recently-introduced remedies, and a catalogue of unadulterated drugs & chemicals of the General Apothecaries Company (Limited), 49, Berners Street, Oxford Street, London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. It is the intention of the Directors of the General Apothecaries Company (limited) to issue from time t© time A Record of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, for the purpose of making generally known to the profession all improvements in medicinal preparations and new re¬ medies which may be introduced and recommended, and also such novel applications of those already known as may be suggested by good authorities. It has not unfrequently happened that new remedies and improved preparations have been in use in the metropolis, on the Continent of Europe, or in America, for a long time before they have been generally known to, or adopted by, the majority of practitioners. In many cases, natural pro¬ ductions of other countries, possessing valuable therapeutic properties, have been described by authors, or in the medical journals, and have nevertheless never become available in practice, because no person has introduced them into commerce. That the forms of many remedial agents, and even of some in daily use, are susceptible of great improvement, and that the healing art still admits of much advancement by the discovery of new remedies, will scarcely be disputed. The present state of medicine as a science and art, and, it may be added, of the profession, would seem to demand that every possible resource for the treatment of diseases should be accessible to every practitioner. If by our chemical processes we can render drugs less nauseous, more energetic, and more certain and uniform in their effects, great benefits will accrue both to the patient and the profession. If any of the various forms of disease now unamenable to treatment can be cured by mineral, or vegetable substances, or the products and educts of the laboratory, not hitherto employed, the character and status of the whole profession, and of their art itself, requires that
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