Chemistry : general, medical and pharmaceutical :including the chemistry of the British Pharmacopoeia : a manual on the general principles of the science, and their applications in medicine and pharmacy / by John Attfield.

  • Attfield, John, 1835-1911.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Chemistry : general, medical and pharmaceutical :including the chemistry of the British Pharmacopoeia : a manual on the general principles of the science, and their applications in medicine and pharmacy / by John Attfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. Thk short title on the back of a book, and even the words on the title-page, are generally, and even neces- sarily, imperfect descriptions of the contents, and hence not infrequently induce at the outset misconceptions in the minds of readers. The author of Chemistry : General, Medical, and Pharmaceutical would at once state, therefore, that his chief aim is to teach the general truths of chemistry to medical and pharmaceu- tical pupils. So far as laws and principles are con- cerned, the book is a work on General Chemistry ; but inasmuch as those laws and principles are elucidated and illustrated by that large portion of chemistry which is directly interesting to medical practitioners and pharmacists, the book may be said to be a work on Medical Chemistry and on Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Only in this conventional sense would the author speak of Medical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry ; for the truths of chemistry are the same for all students- crystalline verities which cannot be expanded or com- pressed to suit any class of workers. The leading principles of the science, however, can as easily be illustrated by or deduced from those facts which have interest as from those which have little or no special interest to the followers of medicine and pharmacy. The