Antidotaria; or, a collection of antidotes against the plague, and other malignant diseases. Together with some decent and useful remarks, on the late Pharmacopeia Londinensis, in a letter to the President and College of Physicians; shewing the necessity of a farther reformation of their new London dispensatory ... / [Joseph Browne].

  • Browne, Joseph, active 1700-1721.
Date:
1721
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Credit: Antidotaria; or, a collection of antidotes against the plague, and other malignant diseases. Together with some decent and useful remarks, on the late Pharmacopeia Londinensis, in a letter to the President and College of Physicians; shewing the necessity of a farther reformation of their new London dispensatory ... / [Joseph Browne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lomeof the Errors in Compofition that have crept into former, and are ftill retain’d ini Edition °ft he London Dilpenfatbry and a further Recommendation of the many: excellent PreftTiptions, which you have With: Jtdtice to the Profeffion, continued and pub- lifii d to the World, all which I fliall en¬ deavour to fupport by Authority, Reafon and Experience ; hence, I flatter myfelf with eve_r}, thing that can be expefted from a Society fo cuftinguifh’d for univerfal Lite- ^ure.’ ^ ^ their particular Know¬ ledge m Medicine. T h is is a meer Trifle which I offer, only as an Euay to what I have ready for the Prels, ana to which I doubt not of your ge¬ nerous Approbation-, for as ’the Study of your Lives is devoted to do Good, fo you will certainly promote every Thing that tends to that great End* and what is of more Lnporiance tnan to preferve Life, and re- Irore to Man that valuable Blefling of Health ? 6 1 This Colleflion of Antidotes, altho’, no Epidemical Dijeafe fiiould happen (which God ^ in his Mercy avert) is of univerfal Tendency, and fpealts for itfelf: The Au- tnors were all Phyficians of great Experi¬ ence, Tome.of whom liv’d thro’five or fix in which they had been fingularly iuccefsful • and after that devouring Flame was Extinguilh’d, they had in all their fuc- ceedmg Pradhce, ftill a mighty Efteem for luch Antidotes and Alexipharmicks as had been