System of materia medica and pharmacy: including translations of the Edinburgh, London, and Dublin pharmacopoeias / With notes by N. Chapman.

  • John Murray
Date:
1832
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Credit: System of materia medica and pharmacy: including translations of the Edinburgh, London, and Dublin pharmacopoeias / With notes by N. Chapman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE BY THE EDITOR. This Treatise, on a more limited scale, was originally de¬ signed by my Father to afford an Outline of his Course of Lectures on Materia Medica and Pharmacy. Subsequent¬ ly he changed the plan of arrangement of these Lectures; but the demand for the work continuing, he was induced to enlarge it into a systematic view of these departments of medical science. The history of the Materia Medica, which before consisted of a mass of insulated facts and vague speculations, he connected by philosophical prin¬ ciples, and moulded into a scientific form; and such in¬ deed is the excellence of the classification of medicines wdiich he proposed, that it is still, after a lapse of twenty years, admitted to be the best on the subject, and forms the basis of some of the latest treatises on this branch of science. The portion of the work relating to Pharmacy included translations of the Pharmacopoeias published by the Col¬ leges of Edinburgh, London and Dublin, the analogous processes being placed together, and the order being that of the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia. On the merits of the original work I need not dilate: it has met with general approval, both as an elementary treatise and as a systematic authority, and other works of celebrity have derived much from it that is acknowledged, and some not a little, of which no acknowledgment is given. The present is the third edition of my Father’s work which I have published; and as no pains have been spared to render it accurate and complete, so the continued demand
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