The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London, MDCCCXXIV / Translated ... by Sir George Leman Tuthill.

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1824
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Credit: The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London, MDCCCXXIV / Translated ... by Sir George Leman Tuthill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TRANSLATION OF THE PREFACE vo trae EDITION or 1809. Avrer an interval of scarcely two and twenty years, we have resolved again to revise our Phar- macopeeia. This labour has been imposed upon us by the improved state and daily cultivation of Natural Science, which has within that short period been freed from so ntuch error, illustra- ted by so many experiments, and established upon principles so much more firm and pro- found than before, that should medicine alone of all its branches be suffered to remain station- ary and neglected, we might justly incur discre- dit; especially, when of the two other sciences, Chemistry and Botany, which are most closely = A od