The London dispensatory, containing: I, the elements of pharmacy; II, the botanical description ... and medicinal properties, of the substnaces of the materia medica; III, the pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians ... a practical synopsis of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics : illustrated with many useful tables and copper-plates of pharmaceutical apparatus / by Anthony Todd Thomson.

  • Thomson, Anthony Todd, 1778-1849.
Date:
1818
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Credit: The London dispensatory, containing: I, the elements of pharmacy; II, the botanical description ... and medicinal properties, of the substnaces of the materia medica; III, the pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians ... a practical synopsis of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics : illustrated with many useful tables and copper-plates of pharmaceutical apparatus / by Anthony Todd Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE LONDON DISPENSATORY. \5E PART I. ELEMENTS OF PHARMACY. PHARMACY is that branch of the science of chemistry which relates to the combination and mixture of different substances for the purposes of medicine. Its practice presupposes a knowledge of the ultimate prin¬ ciples of the substances employed in its operations, and of their chemical agencies; and hence, of the general doctrines of Chemical Science. The elements, therefore, of Pharmacy, properly speaking, are those of Chemistry; and without a knowledge of these, it cannot be either theoretically under¬ stood, or advantageously practised as an art. As, however, it would be impossible in this place to give more than an outline or epitome of the elements of Chemistry, and as the second part of this work is intended to contain the analysis as well as the history and uses of the different articles of the Materia Medica which constitute the subjects of Phar¬ macy, I shall confine the term Elements of Pharmacy to com¬ prehend those general principles of chemical action which enable us to reason on, and perceive the proximate causes of the results of pharmaceutical combinations; and to the expla¬ nation of the operations of Pharmacy, with a description of the apparatus. [*a 2]