Pharmacographia; a history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in Great Britain and British India / by Friedrich A. Flückiger and Daniel Hanbury.

  • Friedrich August Flückiger
Date:
1879
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Credit: Pharmacographia; a history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in Great Britain and British India / by Friedrich A. Flückiger and Daniel Hanbury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    scopic structure are tedious and uninteresting, and however carefully drawn up, must often fail to convey the true meaning which would be easily made evident by the pencil. The reader who wishes for illustra- tions of the minute structure of drugs may consult the works named in the foot-note.1 The next division includes the important subject of Chemical Com- position, in which the authors have striven to point out to the reader familiar with chemistry what are the constituents of greatest interest in each particular drug—what the characters of the less common of those constituents—and by whom and at what date the chief investi- gations have been made. A knowledge of the name and date provides a clue to the original memoir, which may usually be found, either in extenso or in abstract, in more than one periodical. It has been no part of the authors' plan to supersede reference to standard works on chemistry, or to describe the chemical character of substances2 which may be easily ascertained from those sources of information which should be within the reach of every pharmaceutical inquirer. In the section devoted to Production and Commerce, the authors have given such statistics and other trade information as they could obtain from reliable sources; but they regret that this section is of very unequal value, Duties have been abolished, and a general and continuous simplification of tariffs and trade regulations has ensued. The details, therefore, that used to be observed regarding the com- merce in drugs, exists no longer in anything like their former state of completeness: hence the fragmentary nature of much of the informa- tion recorded under this head. The medicinal uses of each particular drug are only slightly men- tioned, it being felt that the science of therapeutics lies within the province of the physician, and may be wisely relinquished to his care. At the same time it may be remarked that the authors would have rejoiced had they been able to give more definite information as to the technical or economic uses of some of the substances they have described. 1 Berg, Anatomischer Atlas zur pharmazeutischen Waarenkunde, Berlin. 1865. 4to., with 50 plates. Fltickiger, Grundlagen cler ■pharmaeeutischen Waarenhunde, Einleitung in das Studiurn der Pharmacognosie, Berlin, 1873. Planchon, Traite pratique, de la determination des drogues simples d'origine ve'gitale, Paris, 1874. Luerssen, Medicinisch-Pharmaceulische Botanik, Leipzig (in progress). 2 For further information, see Fltickiger, Pharmaceutische Chemie, Berlin, 1879.
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