The London dispensatory, containing: I, the elements of pharmacy; II, the botanical description, natural history, chemical analysis, and medicinal properties, of the substances of the materia medica; III, the pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the pharmacopoeias of the London, the Edinburgh, and the Dublin Colleges of Physicians. The whole forming a practical synopsis of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics: illustrated with many useful tables and copper-plates of pharmaceutical apparatus / By Anthony Todd Thomson.

  • Thomson, Anthony Todd, 1778-1849.
Date:
1822
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Credit: The London dispensatory, containing: I, the elements of pharmacy; II, the botanical description, natural history, chemical analysis, and medicinal properties, of the substances of the materia medica; III, the pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the pharmacopoeias of the London, the Edinburgh, and the Dublin Colleges of Physicians. The whole forming a practical synopsis of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics: illustrated with many useful tables and copper-plates of pharmaceutical apparatus / By Anthony Todd Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. oot sought for, and obtained, from other sources besides books ; and I have received from individuals engaged in the drug trade some notices regarding the forms in which drugs are im- ported, and the modes of selecting them; which I hope will prove useful. The botanical descriptions of the plants have been selected chiefly from Martyn’s edition of Miller’s Gardner's Dic- tionary; the last edition of Woodville’s Medical Botany ; Smith’s Flora Britannica ;» Sowerby’s English Botany; the Flora .Peruviana; Rheede’s Hortus Malabaricus ; and. the Flora Danica ; but in every instance when the living plants could be obtained, — which was the case with the greater num- ber of the indigenous plants, and many exotics also, — the descriptions have been either drawn up from nature; or those adopted have been carefully compared with the plants them- selves, and any errors corrected. For other information on this part of the subject, the excellent work of Gaertner de Fructibus; Bergius’ Materia Medica a Regno Vegetabili ; Murrays Apparatus Medicaminum; Alston’s Materia Me- dica ; and the Linnean, and the Philosophical Transactions, with the best books of travels, have been consulted. For the chemical part I have principally consulted the last editions of the System of Chemistry of Doctor Thomson, and that of my very ingenious friend Dr. Murray; the Annales de Chimie ; the Journal de Physique ; the Philosophical Trans- actions ; and the best chemical papers inserted in the periodical publications: nor have I refrained from taking advantage of the observations of Dr. Duncan contained in the Edinburgh New Dispensatory.* As this is undoubtedly the most impor- 1 The following are the more important of the additional works, which have also been consulted. Flore, du Dictionnaire des Sciences Médicales, décrites par ¥. P. Chaumeton, Chamberet et Poiret, 8vo. Paris. Histoire Nat.-et Med. des Cases, fe. : L. T. Calloden de Geneve, M.D. 4to. Montpelier, 1816. P ' Materia Medica of Hintlostan, &e. rea By Whitelaw Ainslie, M. D. 4to. Madras, 1813. A Treatise on the Medicinal Deden: &c. &c. By T. Johnson, M. D. 8vo. London. ‘ Mem. de la Société Imperiale des Nat. de Moscow, Ato. Moscow, 1809. Asiatic Researches, 4to. Calcutta. ”