A manual of materia medica, containing a brief account of all the simples directed in the London and Edinburgh dispensatories, with their several preparations and the principal compositions into which they enter.

  • Aikin, John, 1747-1822.
Date:
1785
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A manual of materia medica, containing a brief account of all the simples directed in the London and Edinburgh dispensatories, with their several preparations and the principal compositions into which they enter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    PREFACE. | ''HE defign of this little piece is circum- fcribed within narrow limits. It is, to nmifh the medical pra&itioner with fuch a ompendium of Materia Medic a, as may ferve a keep in his memory the moll important ircumflances relative to each article received ato practice in this ifland. I fay, to keep in is memory, becaufe it is certain that he ought riginally to be provided with much more co- ious and exact information concerning great art, at leafL, of thefe articles. This is to be cquired by means of leflures and treatifes at rge; but every one knows and laments how igitive the knowledge is, which is not main- med by frequent recurrence to the fource* a 2 of