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Pharmacopoeia reformata, or, an essay for a reformation of the London Pharmacopoeia, by a set of remarks on the draught for a new one : and on the brief account of the proceedings of the committee appointed by the College of Physicians, to thoroughly reform their book : interpreted with some occasional observations on some of the most celebrated modern dispensatories, and the present state of pharmacy.

  • Lewis, William, 1708-1781.
Date:
1744
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Credit: Pharmacopoeia reformata, or, an essay for a reformation of the London Pharmacopoeia, by a set of remarks on the draught for a new one : and on the brief account of the proceedings of the committee appointed by the College of Physicians, to thoroughly reform their book : interpreted with some occasional observations on some of the most celebrated modern dispensatories, and the present state of pharmacy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are drawn up with the utmojl exaCtnefi; « that they are quite free from any confderahle error, clear and practicable, every way equal to the dignity of the mojl learned body of phyficians in Europey and worthy of the authority and function, with which the guardians of the publick health have honoured them. But on in [peeling thefe directories with a juft freedom (for I carnot join with a late eminent phyfeian, that free-thinking can do the faience of ply fell any harm) their real merit falls greatly fort of the dignity and learning of the compofers, and that however worthy of the honour of the fanClion of publick authority the defgn of one flan- dard Pharmacopoeia is, the prejent, tho1 the befi of the kind, is zzot equal to it. Fhe work is not executed in a manner fuitable to the def gn: for nu¬ merous errors appear upon the fin ft fight, and thefe of conflderable magnitude , for Ipafs by the lighter ones of the prefs, tho’ they are fcarce excufable in works of great confequence, as they may a feci the healths, if not the lives, of many. Nor is the confufion on account of the weights, which runs throt the whole book, lefs vifible: For the a Com-