Elements of materia medica and pharmacy / [John Murray].

  • John Samuel Murray
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1808 [Fry and Kammerer, printers]
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    Oy ok . PREFACE. and facts of Materia Medica and Pharmacy, as may be use- ful, independent of the lectures to which it is related. The first part of this Synopsis is allotted to the General Principles of Paarmacrutic Cuemistry. For this I might perhaps have referred to the Elements of Chemistry, which I formerly published. It seemed preferable, however, to render the present treatise: complete in itself, so far as, the plan ex- tended; and by prefixing, such a summary, an opportunity was afforded of conveying some general observations, more imme- diately connected with Pharmacy. Materta Mepica forms the second division of the work. In this, I have adopted that arrangement which; after mature deliberation, appears to me preferable to any other,—that of classing the different substances according to their,medicinal powers. I have endeayoured to establish a comprehensive classification of this kind, and, under each class, to explain the general operation and. practical applications of the substances belonging to it. The plan followed with regard to;each article, is, to give its natural history, describe its sensible properties, its chemical analysis and pharmaceutic treatment,;and enume- rate its uses in the treatment of diseases, with its dose, modes of administration, and officinal preparations. In the selection of the articles, I have been careful to exclude. such as have been discarded from modern practice, and which an undue re- gard fegantiquity has too long retained in publications on Ma- teriaamedica. The third part is devoted to PHarmacy. The Pharmaco- peia of the Edinburgh College affording a selection of Phar- maceutical Preparations, superior, perhaps, to any, other, and using likewise the established language of chemistry and natu- ral history, has been adopted as the basis of this part of the work. To a translation of its processes, I have added, under each preparation, its medicinal uses and dose, with the theory
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