The student's guide to materia medica : in accordance with the latest issue of the British Pharmacopoeia / by John C. Thorowgood.

  • Thorowgood, John C (John Charles), 1838-1913.
Date:
1874
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Credit: The student's guide to materia medica : in accordance with the latest issue of the British Pharmacopoeia / by John C. Thorowgood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    I PEEFACE. This work is intended as a Guide for students while attending- a course of Lectures on tlie Materia Medica and Preparations of the British Pharma- copceia, and as an aid to them in preparing- for then- examinations. The Author assumes that every student possesses and reads the British Pharmacopoeia, that he may learn the history, characters, and mode of prepara- tion of the various medicaments official therein. This Guide is to supplement the Pharmacopoeia in the student's hands. Its ohject is to g-ive an account of the chemical composition of medicines, to explain the chemistry of the various processes by which certain remedies are prepared, and of the re- actions which occur in applying- tests of their purity. The processes of volumetric analysis are also ex- plained as far as this can he done in so small a work. In treating- of the uses of medicines the Author has endeavoured to avoid burdening- the memory with that which may be uncertain and unsettled. General principles of therapeutics have been mainly regarded, and the information g-iven has been of as . definite and positive a character as possible.