A supplement to the pharmacopoeia; being a treatise on pharmacology in general; including not only the drugs and compounds which are used by practitioners of medicine, but also those which are sold by chemists, druggists, and herbalists, ... with a collection of the most useful medical formulæ; ... and also a very copious index ... / By Samuel Frederick Gray.

  • Gray, Samuel Frederick, 1766-1828.
Date:
1821
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A supplement to the pharmacopoeia; being a treatise on pharmacology in general; including not only the drugs and compounds which are used by practitioners of medicine, but also those which are sold by chemists, druggists, and herbalists, ... with a collection of the most useful medical formulæ; ... and also a very copious index ... / By Samuel Frederick Gray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. ‘Tue intention of the present Work is to give a concise account of the actual state of our knowledge of drugs in general, using that term in its most extensive signification, as including, not only those natural substances and com- pounds which are employed by physicians or private prac- titioners in the practice of medicine, but those other sub- stances and compounds which, from their analogy to these, are usually sold by the same retailers as sell medicines for the purpose of being used as dyes, paints, perfumes, cos- metics, liqueurs, &c.; and upon this account the work ap- pears under the title of a Supplement to the Pharmacopceia, as that book eontains only the medicines which are at pre- sent most generally used by the physicians of London and its environs. Still, however, the medicines. form the greater bulk of the work, from the vast variety of them that are employed in different places, and these are properly divisible into three classes : | -]. Euporista, or easily procurable medicines, compre- hending those which are collected in the neighbouring fields and gardens by the herbalists, or procured from the. shops not peculiarly appropriated to the selling of medicines, as those of the druggists, drysalters, oilmen, perfumers, gro- cers, ironmongers, grinders, and stationers. 2. Officinals, comprehending those which are collected and prepared for use in the shops that are expressly kept for the sale of medicines, and of which the preparation is generally known. | 3. Nostrums, or patent medicines, in Latin Chemica, com- prehending those, the preparation of which is not generally known, and which are made only by particular persons, who keep their preparation a secret, or at least deny that it is - known: as most of these are largely advertised, and their virtues vaunted in posting-bills, a connexion is hence formed a 4 :