A translation of the corrected edition of the Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis, published in July 1815. With notes / By a London physician [i.e. R. Reece].

Date:
1815
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Credit: A translation of the corrected edition of the Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis, published in July 1815. With notes / By a London physician [i.e. R. Reece]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE TO V THE TRANSLATION. After the short interval of six years, the College of Physicians of London have found it necessary to revise their Pharmacopoeia, not on account of any improve¬ ment in Chemistry or Botany, as alleged for the revi¬ sion of their former Edition, but of the many flagrant Chemical and other errors with which it abounds, and for the detection of which, they and the public are greatly indebted to Messrs. Phillips, Hume, and other chemi¬ cal characters. Thus have this learned Body tacitly admitted, that they were incompetent to the simple task which they had so humanely undertaken (as they say) for the public good! Notwithstanding several alterations have been made in the names of the articles of the Materia Medica, and in the Recipes and Directions for making officinal Com¬ pounds, the introduction of new substances and prepa¬ rations, and the rejection of others, they have thought proper to publish this corrected Work, as a new Edition only, rather than trouble his Majesty’s Privy Council to issue an order, “to command all and singular Apothe¬ caries and others, whose business it is to compound Me¬ dicines, or distil Oils, or Waters, (why not Spirits?) or make other extracts, within any part of his Majesty’s