A dispensatory and therapeutical remembrancer : with a full and distinct version of every practical formula, as authorized by the London, Edinburgh and Dublin royal college of physicians, in the latest editions of their several pharmacopias ... / By John Mayne ... Rev., with the addition of the formulæ of the United States pharmacopia, etc. By R. Eglesfeld Griffith.

  • Mayne, John.
Date:
1848
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Credit: A dispensatory and therapeutical remembrancer : with a full and distinct version of every practical formula, as authorized by the London, Edinburgh and Dublin royal college of physicians, in the latest editions of their several pharmacopias ... / By John Mayne ... Rev., with the addition of the formulæ of the United States pharmacopia, etc. By R. Eglesfeld Griffith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    PREFACE. The following volume will be found to differ essentially in design and construction from any other Manual (professing simi- larity of purpose) that has yet appeared; while, at same time, the entire plan of arrangement adopted throughout its pages will, it is hoped, become apparent under the slightest examination. Among the numerous class of Compends, Lists, &c. &c. of Materia Medica already before the Profession, there are doubtless many which, in individual respects, possess superlative merit, and evince much ingenuity; it cannot fail to have been remarked, however, that in no one instance of these; and only in a few of higher pretensions and greater compass, has the attempt been made at embracing what is carried out in the present work— namely, an unabridged practical formulary of the three British Pharmacopoeias; and this in addition to a full amount of collect- ive information as to the uses, &c, of the different medicines ; and other important points relating to remedial means and appli- ances. The various advantages derivable from possession of a clear and comparative view—such as is herein submitted—of the Offi- cinal Preparations directed by the high authorities referred to, are self-evident, and must be appreciated by the Prescriber, as well as the Dispenser, of medicines. Another feature of originality, which it is expected will prove highly serviceable, is the introduction—wherever deemed requi- site—of extemporaneous formulae into the work. These are separated from the pharmacopoeial or continuous text of each page where they occur, by a short horizontal line—in the man- 1*