A pocket conspectus of the London and Edinburgh pharmacopœias : ... calculated more especially for the use of junior practitioners.

  • Graves, Robert, 1763-1849.
Date:
1796
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Credit: A pocket conspectus of the London and Edinburgh pharmacopœias : ... calculated more especially for the use of junior practitioners. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE Having frequently Experienced, in my early pra&ice, the want of a publication like the pre- fen t, it is natural to fuppofe there are many others, who muft fometimes feel a fimilar inconvenience or difad van tage. To fuch medical praf&itioners, then, this little manual is chiefly offered} and to fuch, I trull, it will not prove altogether unac- ceptable. It may ferve at leaf!:, often, to fupply the exigencies of the moment, and may even fave, on fome occalions, the trouble of referring to larger works. It will be perceived, that I have followed the example of Dr. Latham, in marking the proper and ellablilhed meafure of feveral words. This, it is obvious, has not been done without reafon, fince the pronunciation of fome even of our moll common technical terms is fometimes, either from ignorance or cuitom, barbarously perverted. That I Hand entitled equally to indulgence, in having alfo fubjoined to a number of words their refpe&ive genders and genitive cafes, may, indeed, be doubted. To the young phyfician, however, who happens, as yet, to be familiar with but few’ of