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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    ADVERTISEMENT. Tus progressive advancement of Chemical Science and many new discoveries in Natural’ History, have contributed, within the space of a very few years, to alter materially the character of Pharmacy; and conse- quently to give to each new Edition of the Dispen- satory the aspect, almost, of an original work. These circumstances have augmented the author’s desire to make this volume as complete as possible: and, while he has endeavoured to correct some’ errors which found their way into the two former editions, he has endeavoured to add as much new matter, both to the text and the notes of this edition, as the course of his reading has enabled him to collect. In noticing a few of the alterations, candour ob- liges him to say, that the perusal of the translations of the Memoirs of Humboldt and the Spanish botanists ~.on the Cincnona Barks, which form the most in- teresting part of Lambert’s new Illustrations of that important genus ', have entirely changed his opinion regarding the species yielding the officinal barks; * Lambert's Illustrations of the Genus Cinchona, 4to. Lond. 1821. | A 4: ities