A complete extemporaneous dispensatory; or, the method of prescribing, compounding, and exhibiting extemporaneous medicines. In which is contained at large, the doctrine of all those various forms, both external and internal, which are now in use. Exemplified with many accurate specimens of each / Translated from the Latin original of the learned H.D. Gaubius ... [by S.M].

  • Hieronymus David Gaubius
Date:
1741
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Credit: A complete extemporaneous dispensatory; or, the method of prescribing, compounding, and exhibiting extemporaneous medicines. In which is contained at large, the doctrine of all those various forms, both external and internal, which are now in use. Exemplified with many accurate specimens of each / Translated from the Latin original of the learned H.D. Gaubius ... [by S.M]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eafy to determine •, as by large or tea fpoons fall, the fize of nuts, drops, &V. But if it be of confequence to have the dofe determined to ex- aCtnefs*, the diftribution and exhibition thereof, may be referr’d to the apothecary. 10. The method and time of adminiftring the remedy, depending upon the particular nature of the difeafe, the medicine itfelf, and many other circumftances; fhou’d be in the genera] di¬ rected fo as to fuit belt with the phyfician’s in¬ tention, and the patient’s convenience : neg¬ lecting the fcrupulous and fuperftitious obferva- tion of times and feafons deduced from aflrolo- gy, as both ufelefs and unbecoming the fagacity of our age. 11. If there be any occafion for a vehicle to take it in, we fhou’d endeavour to chufe one, that befides pleafing the palate, falls in with the intention of the medicine itfelf. The materials for vehicles are ufualiy taken from things that are readied: at hand, grateful or pleafant to the patient, or become fo by common and frequent ufe: as ale, wine, broth, tea, coffee, juleps, wafers, marmalade, roafted apple, or the like. 12. A proper regimen, before, in, and after the operation of the medicine, is often abfo- lutely neceffary to be obferved *, for without this, the aCtion of the remedy wou’d be frequently, either too much increafed, diminifh’d, chang’d, or wholly deftroyed. But to determine what re¬ gimen will be moit proper, the doCtrine of in¬ dications muft be call’d into con fiderat ion. §. 61. We have been hitherto treating of a for¬ mula in general^ exclufive of its particular contents; we come now to examine its internal compofition, the number of its conftituent parts, their nature, quantity, mutual affinity, proportion and the like. §. 62.