A pocket conspectus of the London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeias ... / By Robert Graves.

  • Robert Graves
Date:
1796
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Credit: A pocket conspectus of the London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeias ... / By Robert Graves. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 PO HE Sone te hag G82 ee ee SRE SSCS Have frequently experienced, in my early practice, the want of a publication iike the pre- fent, it is natural to fuppofe there are many others, who muf fometimes feel a fimilar inconvenience or difadvantage. To fuch medical practitioners, then, this little manual is chiefly offered; and to fach, T truit, it will not prove altogether unac- ceptable. It may ferve at leaft, often, to fupply the exigencies of the moment, and may even fave, on fome occafions, the trouble of’ referring to larger works. It will be perceived, that I have followed the example of Dr. Latham, in marking the proper and eftablithed meafure of feveral words. This, it is obvious, has not been done without reafon, fince the pronunciation of fome even of our moit ‘common technical terms is fometimes; either from ignorance or cuftom, barbaroufly perverted. That I ftand entitled equally to indulgence, in having alfo fubjoined toa number of words their re{pective genders and genitive cafes, may, indeed, be doubted. To the young phyfician, however, who happens, as yet, to be familiar with but few of