A new supplement to the pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Paris; forming a complete dispensatory and conspectus. Including ... the pharmacopoeia of the Veterinary College / [James Rennie].

  • Rennie, James, 1787-1867
Date:
1829
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Credit: A new supplement to the pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Paris; forming a complete dispensatory and conspectus. Including ... the pharmacopoeia of the Veterinary College / [James Rennie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    abounding. Many surgical articles are also introduced which are not to be met with in any of the Pharmaco- peeias, such as ae eh moxa, &c. THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST Must at once perceive that this at form the most con- venient Counter-book hitherto published. It differs from the Dispensatories, and similar works, in not being con- fined to the Pharmacopeeias, but containing all, or nearly — all the articles kept in the shops, including both New and Old Medicines, Herbs, Perfumery, Veterinary Drugs, and Chemical Substances. The alphabetical arrangement also will render it easy to turn immediately to any article which may be required. I have been anxious to give the best procésses for ob- taining the New vegetable alkalies and resins, and to explain, both according to the Old.and to the New Chemistry, the decompositions which occur during the preparation of the articles ordered by the Colleges.. In the former, I have chiefly: followed Magendie’s “ For- MULAIRE;” in the latter, I have been much indebted to the works of Phillips and Brande, and to the verbal in- formation of my friend, Mr: Hume, of Long Acre, whose well known accuracy as a chemist requires no eulogium from: me. In the account of the Adulterations of articles, I herd been greatly indebted to. Dr. Thomson, Dr. Paris, and. Mr. Brande. THE PHYSICIAN Is furnished in the present work with a complete enume- ration, not only of the College Materia Medica, and Pre- parations, but with all the New Medicines which have