Dr. Pereira's Elements of materia medica and therapeutics : abridged and adapted for the use of medical and pharmaceutical practitioners and students and comprising all the medicines of the British Pharmacopœia, with such others as are frequently ordered in prescriptions or required by the physician / edited by Robert Bentley and Theophilus Redwood ; with an appendix.

  • Jonathan Pereira
Date:
1874
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Credit: Dr. Pereira's Elements of materia medica and therapeutics : abridged and adapted for the use of medical and pharmaceutical practitioners and students and comprising all the medicines of the British Pharmacopœia, with such others as are frequently ordered in prescriptions or required by the physician / edited by Robert Bentley and Theophilus Redwood ; with an appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Iii the part of the book which treats of medicines derived from the vegetable kingdom much new matter, not contained in the previous Abridgment, is introduced, in winch the wants of the student, the pharmacist, and the medical practitioner have been consulted. The Editors, anxious to retain for this reproduction of Dr. Pereira's work the high character which the*elements of Materia Medica, as published by the author, acquired and has always maintained, have endeavoured to bring the subjects treated of up to the present state of chemical and pharmacological knowledge. In the part that relates to chemical substances considerable alteration was neces- sary to reconcile the descriptions to modern chemical theories and to the nomenclature and notation of the present Pharmacopoeia. The introduction of new medi- cines has also involved the insertion of much original matter. It has not been deemed necessary to indicate this where it occurs; but all the matter introduced from the Pharmacopoeia is distinguished by its being enclosed within angular braces. Where the instructions of the Pharmacopoeia are given in full, such matter is marked thus [ § ], and where given in abstract, it is marked as follows [ § | ]. Short explanatory notes are sometimes introduced among the matter extracted from the Phar- macopoeia, and these, when so occurring, are enclosed within curved braces, thus ( ). March, 1872. A Eeprint of the British Pharmacopoeia with * Addi- tions' having appeared in 1874, the new matter so introduced, and such descriptions and comments as seemed to be called for, are given as an Appendix at the end of this work. June, 1874.