The pharmacopoeia of Guy's Hospital / compiled by a committee of the staff.

  • Guy's Hospital.
Date:
1899
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    PREFACE. The last edition of the Hospital Pharmacopoeia, issued in 1891, having become exhausted, the Court of Committees, upon the recommendation of the Medical Committee, has authorised the publication of a new edition, the preparation of which has been entrusted to a Committee consisting of representatives of the Medical and Surgical Staff, and of the Special Departments. In compiling the present Pharmacopoeia the Committee have endeavoured to^make the book more useful to Students py including in it the British Pharmacopoeia (I898), so far as it is necessary to be known for the purpose of prescribing. The exact manner in which the various preparations are directed to be made has not been stated except where, for practical reasons, it seemed desirable that such details should be given. In the selection of formulae for inclusion in the work the Committee have received valuable assist- ance from many old Guy's men, whose suggestions have been carefully considered, and to whom the best thanks of the Staff are due. Preference has been given to simple rather than to complex formulae, and to the cheaper rather than to the dearer drugs or preparations in cases where □oth seemed to the Committee to be of equal therapeutic i/alue. Moreover, having regard to the fact that the formulae of a Hospital Pharmacopoeia are largely used in Out-Patient Practice, the Committee have rarely directed the maximum dose of a drug to be given in any mixture in order to lessen the chance of serious consequences to those who, from care- essness or inadvertence, should take more than the pre: scribed quantity of the medicine. The previous editions of the Guy's Hospital Pharmacopoeia are as follows : — 1. Pharmacopoeia in usum Valetudinarii a Thoma Guy, ^rmigero, fundati ad normam recensitae editionis Pharma sopceiae Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis reformata. 79I. 2. Pharmacopoeia in usum Nosocomii a Thoma Guy, \rmigero, A.D. MDCCXXI. fundati. I837. 3. 4, 5, Editions with similar title pages to the preceding Dublished in I85I, I855, and I864. 6, 7, Formulae used at Guy's Hospital, in addition to those n the British Pharmacopoeia. Compiled by a Committee of :he Staff. I868 and I879. 8. The Pharmacopoeia of Guy's Hospital. Compiled by a Dommittee of the Staff. I89I. In conclusion the Committee have to thank Mr. H.Collier, Head Dispenser to the Hospital, for the services rendered by iim in the course of the present revision. April, 1899.