The pharmacopœia of the Royal College of Physicians of London, M.DCCC.IX : translated into English, with notes, &c.

  • Powell, Richard, 1767-1834.
Date:
1809
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Credit: The pharmacopœia of the Royal College of Physicians of London, M.DCCC.IX : translated into English, with notes, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of a national work of this sort great difficulties might and would occur, prejudices and differ- ent modes of thought and practice would pro- bably create much difference of opinion, but none of these would be insurmountable to men of sense and science, and I am persuaded that some future a^e will see the advantage and even necessity of the attempt. The Arrangement of a Pharmacopoeia is arbi- trary and of little importance, such a work is in fact only a register of those medicines which the Apothecary ought to prepare and keep, and in some instances simple alphabetical order alone has been thought sufficient. That now adopted has for its only advantages that it brings together i more closely similar preparations under similar1 heads, and is more accordant with the chemical opinions of the present day. The Nomenclature, which is the next general point for consideration, is of more consequence, and it comprizes both the subjects of natural his- tory and chemical composition; With respect tp the former, the plants originally employed by the Arabian and Grecian physicians were very im- perfectly understood by their successors, and seem most commonly to have been applied by mere chance and guess, on the revival of learn- ing in the West. Still, however, the names they had used were again employed and applied, and new Latin ones were coined to express such other