Formulae selectae, or, A collection of prescriptions of eminent physicians, and the most celebrated patent medicines : together with syllabic view of mineral waters and poisons.

Date:
1818
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Credit: Formulae selectae, or, A collection of prescriptions of eminent physicians, and the most celebrated patent medicines : together with syllabic view of mineral waters and poisons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In the treatment of chronic diseases, and rebel- I lious cases, the anxious practitioner should turn with willingness to the compositions of medicines recom- mended by eminent men, and to such also as have acquired a reputation, although they may have ori- ginated with empirics or nurses. A work containing a collection of prescriptions of this kind, remains a desideratum in medicine, at least in this country. The books which contain them are not always within reach, the search is te- dious, and oftentimes fruitless. In order to remove in some degree these difficulties, the compilers have made a selection of the most celebrated : the number might have been much enlarged, but they presume that they have given as many as most practitioners will require ; even of these, there are some, of which from their own knowledge they can say very little; by giving them a place here, they do not pretend to settle their value ; the sources whence they are deri- ved are usually indicated by their names, and the dis- criminating physician can readily judge of their in- dividual merits. The Formulae Selectse is intended to be a com- panion to the Dispensatory, and not in any way to supersede its use. A recipe may have reputation and deserved celebrity, and yet not find a place