Druckschrift 
The new dispensatory : containing 1. The elements of pharmacy, 2. The materia medica, or an account of the substances employed in medicine, with the virtues and uses of each article, so far as they are warranted by experience and observation, 3.The preparations and compositions of the new London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeias ; the whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations
Entstehung
URN (Seite)
  
Einzelbild herunterladen
 

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.

r