A complete extemporaneous dispensatory; or, the method of prescribing, compounding, and exhibiting extemporaneous medicines. In which is contained at large, the doctrine of all those various forms, both external and internal, which are now in use. Exemplified with many accurate specimens of each / Translated from the Latin original of the learned H.D. Gaubius ... [by S.M].

  • Gaubius, Hieronymus David, 1705?-1780.
Date:
1741
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Credit: A complete extemporaneous dispensatory; or, the method of prescribing, compounding, and exhibiting extemporaneous medicines. In which is contained at large, the doctrine of all those various forms, both external and internal, which are now in use. Exemplified with many accurate specimens of each / Translated from the Latin original of the learned H.D. Gaubius ... [by S.M]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are added; as the firf begin with ft. but the lajl with % .: and if any body is de- frous to have fill a larger number of fpecimens for each form, they may have recourfe to Fuller \ whofe Pharmacopasa may be taken as a Jupplement to this. WITH regard to the prefent tranj- lation and edition, to have given a ver- fion direElly literal wou d have made the reading too fif , and lefs agreeable with our own language : but care has been all along taken to preferve the author s fenfe, and to reprefent it generally to advan¬ tage, as much as poffible in his own words. It is hoped the book has improved and gained in the tranftation ; and there are feveral things which render this edition more compleat and ufeful than the origi¬ nal : the quotations referred to by our author are here fubjoined in their pro¬ per places, fame occaftonal but necejfary obfervations are here and there made, and both are properly cliflinguifhed in the way of note; the feveralformulae are in- flanced more largely and accurately, and