The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London / translated into English, with notes, indexes and new names, preparations, &c. &c. by Thomas Healde, M.D.

  • Royal College of Physicians of London.
Date:
1796
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Credit: The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London / translated into English, with notes, indexes and new names, preparations, &c. &c. by Thomas Healde, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    ( ^^ ) to the names we have arbitrarily given to the ^hree alkaline Salts^ (of which one, indeed, had been long in life, and the other two are but Httle altered from their common appella- tion,) they have in truth fo much conveni- ence and brevity, that they may juftly claim, at leaft, the excufe of Phvficians. It is not, however, to be denied, that fo many novelties mnft be difagreeable to thofe who deal in medicines; efpecially at firfl, and before they conceive them perfed:ly; but that difguft, however great it may be, will be got the better of eafily, ceafe of itfelf, and give place to a cuftom, more proper, more pleafaut, and more ufeful. We are not ignorant how very great the difficulty is of forming a Difpenfatory in ^very refpe£t complete and perfect—nor of the little reafon there is for hoping it would pleafe all mankind:—we pretend not to un- dertake any fuch thing; and fhall really congratulate ourfelvcs, if the trouble, em- ployed for the public health on this work anfwers in fome degree the purpofe of alle- viating the evils of ficknefs, and rendering their cure more prompt and expeditious. A 3 ADVER^