Remarks on the editio altera of the Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, and on Dr. Powell's translation. And anotations / by Richard Phillips.

  • Richard Phillips
Date:
1816
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Credit: Remarks on the editio altera of the Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, and on Dr. Powell's translation. And anotations / by Richard Phillips. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and by Dr. Powell in translating, the Phar¬ macopoeia, may perhaps learn with surprize, that when the assistance of Mr. Brande might have been obtained, and the co-operation of the Society of Apothecaries rendered perma¬ nently useful, they have preferred, obtained, and acknowledged with particular and un- feigned gratitude, the aid of Mr. Hume, “ chemist of Long Acre. There are some parts of Dr. Powell's preface which I have read with great satisfaction; I allude to the hints thrown out respecting a National Pharmacopoeia, and the probability that the College would not object to the weights and measures being reduced to one standard : and I sincerely concur in ascribing extreme importance to the Scale of Chemical Equivalents; one of the numerous and valu¬ able acquisitions for which chemistry is in¬ debted to Dr. Wollaston; but Dr. Powell will probably regret, that he was not so well con¬ vinced of the excellence of his own advice respecting this instrument, as to adopt it him¬ self: little, if any use appears to have been made of it, either in the Pharmacopoeia or the translation; and I have pointed out several instances, in which errors have arisen from the neglect of it. With some observations on other parts of
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