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

  • Richard Phillips
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.

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    retical point of view appeared of very questionable pro- priety, until after the circulation of the “ Specimen alte- rum.” This I had also an opportunity of inspecting; and having learned, that although uninvited by the Col- lege, there would be no impropriety in addressing them on the subject of the intended work, I prepared some observations and sent them, with an offer of communi- cating the results of those experiments which I intended to perform for ascertaining several doubtful points, pro- vided the College were disposed to receive them. Here the matter rested. But had I seen any reason to suspect the existence of the means which it since appears were adopted for conducting the requisite experiments, the fear of being thought presumptuous would probably have deterred me from tendering my services. The latter part of the following quotation from Dr. Powell’s preface to his translation, appears to be intended to show that a powerful union of talent and opportunity1 was formed for the purpose of experimental investigation. “ Nor did they, [the committee of fellows] in their pro- gress, overlook, but, on the contrary, derived great assist- ance from the recent Pharmacopoeia, edited by the Col- leges of Edinburgh and Dublin. They also established, as had been done in a former instance, a most im- portant intercourse with the Society of Apothecaries, who appointed a committee for the purpose of co-operating with the College, in the use of their extensive laboratory, and in bringing to the test of that Sort of experiment