A manual of pharmacy / By William Thomas Brande.

  • Brande, William Thomas, 1788-1866.
Date:
1833
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    INTRODUCTION. In a Manual of Chemistry, originally published in the year 1819, I have endeavoured to present the reader with a compendium of the principal facts of that science, arranged in the order in which they are discussed and illustrated in the Lectures delivered in the Laboratory of the Royal Institution. The ob- ject of the present work is to furnish the student with a corresponding outline of the Course of Pharmacy annually given at Apothecaries' Hall. Under the term Pharmacy I include all that re- lates to the Medical and Chemical History of the different Articles of the Materia Medica; to the mode of prescribing them ; to their effects; to their composition: these, therefore, are the subjects to which I have almost exclusively confined myself in the following pages; and it is hoped that they will be found so treated as to facilitate the progress of the medical student in this important branch of his pro- fession. I have adopted the list of the Materia Medica, and of the Preparations and Compounds, sanctioned by the Royal College of Physicians of London, and published in their Pharmacopoeia, as the basis of this work, and have endeavoured to divest my remarks upon them of all details, except such as I conceive likely to prove practically useful.