Pharmacologia: corrected and extended, in accordance with the London pharmacopoeia of 1824, and with the generally advanced state of chemical science (Volume 1).

  • Paris, John Ayrton, 1785-1856.
Date:
1825
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Credit: Pharmacologia: corrected and extended, in accordance with the London pharmacopoeia of 1824, and with the generally advanced state of chemical science (Volume 1). Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    SECOND AMERICAN EDITION When the first American Edition of Dr. Paris's Pharmacologia was published, few physicians in this country were acquainted either with the character of the work or the reputation of its Author. It was preceded by no recommendations to professional favour, nor was it subsequently honoured, even by the customary introduction of a critical review. It soon, however, obtained celebrity by its merits. Its popularity has been evinced by the sale of a large edi- tion published the last year. Dr. Paris's happy illustration of the operation of medicines, as diversified by combination, appears to be peculiarly his own : and he has so far succeeded in reducing his principles to scientific accuracy, and in rendering them applicable to practice, as justly to merit the praise of forming a new era in the departments of Pharmacy and Prescription. In the Fifth London Edition, which is here re- printed, it will be perceived that the author has greatly enlarged the first part—the most original and interesting portion of the work; and thus, by supplying an important deficiency in his previous edi- tions, has rendered his book complete. In its present form, it is en- titled to the double commendation, of being a work admirably suited to the wants of the profession, and the only one of its kind. The author has probably introduced, into the second volume, every article of the Materia Medica which he thinks worthy of being retained in use; but there are, unquestionably, many valuable medi- cines of American production, which it is presumed are known but imperfectly, if at all to him, and a description of which, it is believ- ed, will render the work more useful to the profession in this coun- try. From this consideration, the American Editor has attempted to incorporate, in this edition, a brief notice of the most valuable me- dicinal substance of the United States. In pursuance of this object-