Pharmacopoeia Edinburgensis: or, the dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh / Translated and improved from the third edition of the Latin. And illustrated with notes by Peter Shaw.

  • Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
Date:
1740
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Credit: Pharmacopoeia Edinburgensis: or, the dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh / Translated and improved from the third edition of the Latin. And illustrated with notes by Peter Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In the Catalogue of Simples, we have had regard to brevity, and a commodious arrange¬ ment y the officinal Plants are fufficiently nume¬ rous ^ and defcribed by their mojl accufiomed and familiar names; fo Jikewije are the medicinal jiibftances of animals and minerals ; care being all along taken to point out thofe parts thereof] which are employ'd in medicine, Some things are left out, as not differing from others in vir¬ tue ; or as having been introduced by the Juper- Jlition or credulity of antiquity ; fill leaving o- thers, perhaps, to be expunged by pofterity ; for 'tis better to labour under a redundancy than a fear city of materials. Several of the difiilPd fimple Waters are here rejected and the number of the compound kind enlarged, by the addition of one or two, which are fitter for keeping, and better prefer- ving the virtues of the plants > being particularly careful to commit nothing to dipt illation, but what Jhoud communicate feme virtue to the Water, A great many Tindtures are added; fimples admirably communicating their efficacy theretoy at the fame time that they are generally render'd acceptable to thePatient by the agreeable JmalU nejs off' their dofe. In directing the Syrups, we have ffewn which ought to be made by codtion, vehicb by infufion ; A 3 and