PREFACE
THE New Difpenfatory was intended as a re-ti gular book of practical and fcientific phar-macy ; compofed on principles agreeable tf»thoie, on "which the colleges of London and Edin-burgh have proceeded, in the late reformation oftheir ofEcinal pharmacopoeias; containing full andclear directions, drawn from actual expedience, fort preparation of the feveral medicines, particularlyM accompanied with any difiiculty or dar#gc:v>;an d afiigning every where, as far as poffiblc, their* ea ' virtues and ufes ; intentions, which though ofPrimary importance in a work of this kind, do not*cem to have been at all regarded in the other dif-T'. nlatories that have hitherto appeared.
_ The author has had the fatisfaClion of finding thatlls cn deavours have not been in vain ; that though! le Wor k fell very far fhort of the perfedtion whichle w i^hed for, it was diftinguifhed with approbations£ Ven beyond his hopes; with approbations, which. ave induced the compilers of the other difpenfato-lafl t0- .^ orrow ver y confiderable parts of it in their* e ^itions 5 in one of which, belides many para-P h s and entire pages here and there, the greateftP a rt of tWQ ] lun( j re( j p a p- es together is illiberally
co pied from this work.
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