The Galenical preparations of the British pharmacopoeia : a handbook for medical and pharmaceutical students / by C. O. Hawthorne.

  • Hawthorne, C. O. (Charles Oliver), 1858-1949.
Date:
1895
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Credit: The Galenical preparations of the British pharmacopoeia : a handbook for medical and pharmaceutical students / by C. O. Hawthorne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PKEFACE. This small volume contains the facts that have formed the basis of a short course of lectures with practical demonstrations which it has been my duty and privilege for several years to deliver to students in the Glasgow School of Medicine. The selection of the facts has been determined by the consideration that the medical student is, in his future, to be engaged in the application and administration of medicines as remedies, and not in the purchasing of drugs or in the actual manufacture of their preparations. Hence, whilst he'may reasonably be expected to be acquainted generally with the materials used as remedies, and with the principles of the processes by which preparations suitable for employment in treatment are obtained, he cannot be expected to be familiar with drugs in their commercial aspect, or to burden his memory with the details—quantitative and otherwise—of all their preparations. Important as these details are to the manufacturing pharmacist, they are of purely subordinate interest to the physician. I have therefore endeavoured here to explain the nature of the official preparations and the principles which underlie their manufacture, and not to provide a manual of practical directions for their actual successful production. The skill necessary to secure this latter result can only be attained by attention to- the detailed directions of the Pharmacopoeia, by careful study of the recognised com-