An experimental examination of the last edition of the Pharmacopoeia Londinensis : with remarks on Dr. Powell's translation and annotations.

  • Phillips, Richard, 1778-1851.
Date:
1811
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Credit: An experimental examination of the last edition of the Pharmacopoeia Londinensis : with remarks on Dr. Powell's translation and annotations. 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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    ADVERTISEMENT. Many of the experiments recorded in the following pages have been detailed in the tenth number of the London Medical Review; accompanied in conformity with the nature of that work, by a critical examination of the Pharmacopoeia and of Dr. Powell’s translation. The i • * * whole of these experiments I performed, and furnished most of the critical remarks. Several medical friends have advised me to republish the detail and the results of these experiments, not only I for the purpose of circulating them more widely, but also to obtain an opportunity of relating experimental minutiae, which the limited space afforded by the Review necessarily excluded. I am now able to add the results of muph subsequent investigation; and on this occasion I have not introduced that part which is merely critical: this 1 think can scarcely be requisite, because those peculiarities which occur so frequently in the translation, as well as those from which indeed the original is not altogether exempt, are suffici- ently conspicuous to insure observation. I have confined my attention as much as possible, to such points as my avocation and pursuits have brought more Immediately before me; and to those erroneous opinions