Medicines, their uses and mode of administration : including a complete conspectus of the three British pharmacopoeias, an account of all the new remedies, and an appendix of formulae / by J. Moore Neligan ; with notes and additions, conforming it to the pharmacopoeia of the United States, and including all that is new or important in recent improvements by David Meredith Reese.

  • Neligan, J. Moore (John Moore), 1815-1863.
Date:
1844
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Credit: Medicines, their uses and mode of administration : including a complete conspectus of the three British pharmacopoeias, an account of all the new remedies, and an appendix of formulae / by J. Moore Neligan ; with notes and additions, conforming it to the pharmacopoeia of the United States, and including all that is new or important in recent improvements by David Meredith Reese. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    individual articles of the Materia Medica may be summarily ex- amined. But, while this just meed of praise is frankly bestowed upon the scientific labours of the learned author, the editor has not scrupled to criticise, with the freedom characteristic of our fraternity, not only the classification of the work, and its innovations upon our burdened nomenclature, but many of the author's theoretical, and a few of his practical observations, to which exception is taken for the reasons found in the accompanying notes, which, in every in- stance, are designated by brackets [ ], and which, for the conveni- ence of the student, are inserted in loco, instead of being placed at the foot of the page, or in an appendix. The nomenclature and pharmaceutics of the volume have been conformed to the Pharmacopoeia of the United States, that great national work being everywhere recognised in this country, and approved by our universities and medical colleges, as entitled to be ranked with the similar publications of London, Dublin, and Edinburgh, the three British authorities cited in the text. So, also, a number of new remedies, and many officinal prepara- tions, both old and new, omitted by the author, have been sup- plied by the editor, availing himself of details furnished by two of his friends belonging to the New-York College of Pharmacy, Messrs. Milhau and Dupuy, to whom he acknowledges his obliga- tions. In the hope that the reprint of this valuable compend of Profes- sor Neligan will be regarded as worthy the patronage of the pro- fession and the public, and that the improvements attempted may contribute to the promotion of medical literature, the undersigned bespeaks for both the candid examination of medical teachers, practitioners, and students. D. M. Reese.