Pharmacologia / by J.A. Paris.

Date:
1825
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Credit: Pharmacologia / by J.A. Paris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    who professes to supply a syrup of roses of very supe- rior beauty, and who for this purpose, substitutes the petals of the red (rosa gallica) for those of the damask rose (rosa centifolia) ; we need not be told, that a pre- paration of a more exquisite colour may be thus afford- ed, but allow me to ask if this underhanded substitu- tion be not a manifest act of injustice to the medical practitioner, who instead of a laxative syrup, receives one which is marked by the opposite character of astringency. These observations will not apply, of course, to those articles which are avowedly prepared by a new process; for in that case the practitioner is enabled to make his election, and either to adopt or refuse them at his discretion. Thus has Mr. Barry applied his ingenious patent apparatus for boiling in vacuo, to the purpose of making Extracts ; we might almost say a priori, that the results must be more ac- tive than those obtained in the ordinary way, but they must pass the ordeal of experience before they can be admitted into practice. As a brief notice of the most notorious Quack Medicines may be acceptable, the formulae for their preparation have been appended in notes, each being placed at the foot of the particular article which constitutes its prominent ingredient; in- deed it is essential that the practitioner should be ac- quainted with their composition, for although he would refuse to superintend the operation of a boasted pana- ceo, it is but too probable that he may be called upon to counteract its baleful influence. The Historical Introduction, comprehending the substance of the lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London, from the recently established chair of Materia Medica, has been prefixed to the work, at the desire of several of the auditors;