A universal formulary.

  • Griffith, R. Eglesfeld (Robert Eglesfeld), 1798-1850.
Date:
1850
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    GRIFFITH'S MEDICAL FORMULARY—(Continued.) From a vast number of commendatory notices, the publishers select a few. A valuable acquisition to the medical praciitioner. and a useful book of reference to the apothecary on numerous occasions—American Journal of Pharmacy. Dr. Griffith's Formulary is worthy of recommendation, not only on account of the care which has been bestowed on it by its estimable author, but for its general accuracy, and the richness of its details.—Medical Examiner. Most cordially we recommend this Universal Formulary, not forgetting its adaptation to druggists and apothecaries, who would find themselves vastly improved by a familiar acquaintance with this every-day book of medicine.— The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. Pre-eminent among the best and most useful compilations of the present day will be found the work before us, which can have been produced only at a very great cost of thought and labor. A short description will suffice to show that we do not put too high an estimate on this work. We are not cognizant of the existence of a parallel work. Its value will be apparent to our readers from the sketch of its contents above given. We strongly recommend it to all who are engaged either in practical medicine, or more exclusively with its literature.—London Medical Gazette. A very useful work, and a most complete compendium on the subject of materia medica. We know of no work in our language, or any other, so comprehensive in all its details —London Lancet. The vast collection of formulas which is offered by the compiler of this volume, contains a large number which will be new to English practitioners, some of them from the novelty of their ingredients, and others from the unaccustomed mode in which they are combined; and we doubt not that several of these might be advantageously brought into use. The authority for every formula is given, and the list includes a very nu- merous assemblage of Continental, as well as of British and American writers of repute. It is, therefore, a work to which every practitioner may advantageously resort for hints to increase his stock of remedies and of forms of prescription. The other indices facilitate reference to every article in the Formulary; and they appear to have been drawn up with the same care as that which the author has evidently bestowed on every part of the work.— The British and Foreign Medico- Chirurgical Revieiv. The work before us is all that it professes to be. viz.: a compendious collection of formulae and pharma- ceulic processes.'] It is such a work as was much needed, and should be in the hands of every practitioner who is in the habit of compounding medicines — Transylvania Medical Journal. This seems to be a very comprehensive work, so far as the range of its articles and combinations is con- cerned, with a commendable degree of brevity and condensation in their explanation. It cannot fail to be a useful and convenient book of reference to the two classes of persons to whom it particularly commends itself in the title-page.— The N. W. Medical and Surgical Journal It contains so much information that we very cheerfully recommend it to the profession.— Charleston Med. Journal. Well adapted to supply the actual wants of a numerous and varied class of persons.—N. Y. Journal of Medicine. CHRISTISON & GRIFFITH'S DISPENSATORY.-(A Mew Work.) A DISPENSATORY, OR, COMMENTARY ON THE PHARM ACOPCEIAS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES: COMPRISING THE NATURAL HISTORY, DESCRIPTION. CHP31ISTRY, PHARMACY, ACTIONS, USES, AND DOSES OF THE ARTICLES OF THE MATERIA MEDICA. BY ROBERT CHRISTISON, M. D., V. P. R. S. E., President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Edinburgh, etc. Second Edition, Revised and Improved, WITH A SUPPLEMENT CONTAINING THE MOST IMPORTANT NEW REMEDIES. WITH COPIOUS ADDITIONS, AND TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN LARGE WOOD ENGRAVINGS. BY R. EGLESFELD GRIFFITH, M. B\, Author of A Medical Botany, etc. In one very large and handsome octavo volume, of over one thousand closely printed pages, with numerons wood-cuts, beautifully printed on fine white paper, presenting an immense quantity of matter at an unusually low price. It is enough to say that it appears to us as perfect as a Dispensatory, in the present state of pharniaceuti- eal science, could be made.—The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery. CJUISOJV'S SYNOPSIS—(JVotc Ready.) SYNOPSlS~OF THE GQUR5E OF LECTURES OH MATERIA MEDICA AND PHARMACY, Delivered in trie University of Pennsylvania. BY JOSEPH CARSON, M. D.. Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy in the University of Pennsylvania. In one very neat octavo volume of 20S pages. This work, containing a rapid but thorough outline of the very extensive subjects under consideration, will be found useful, not only for the matriculants and graduates of the institution for whom it is more particu- larly intended, but also for those of the profession who may desire to recall their former studies. THE THREE KINDS OF COD-LIVER OIL, Comparatively considered, with their Chemical and Therapeutic Properties, by L. J. DE JONGH. M. D. Translated, with an Appendix and Cases, by EDWARD CAREY, M. D. To which is added an article on the subject from Dunglison on New Remedies. In one small 12mo. volume, extra cloth.