An experimental examination of the last edition of the Pharmacopoeia Londinensis; with remarks on Dr. Powell's translation and annotations / [Richard Phillips].

  • Phillips, Richard, 1778-1851
Date:
1811 [1812?]
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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 / [Richard Phillips]. 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 hav® 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 opportunity 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