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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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    . Committee, which the College of phyfeigns have appointed to reform their difpenfatory, jufly ob- ferve, that “ Troy-weights only are de¬ fer ibed in the beginning of the book, yet many of the compoftions are preferibed according to the proportions of the Avoirdepois.” Nor is there lefs > variety and uncertainty in the mea fures, than in the weights-, for it has been long remarked, that the names of weights have been applied to mea- fires, tho* the liquors contained in thofe meafures, have not the weights thofe names imply. But it is not to be wonder'd at, that thefe, and many other errors Jhouldpafs uncorreBed thro' the many editions of the fame book, fnce we are told by the fame gentlemen, that “the rejecting antiquated medicines, and receiving others, which from time to time had come into efeem, has been the principal thing attended to in the former revifals. TheCollege have at length appointed a feleB number of their body to'weed out the many errors which have crept into their book, to retrench its fuperfluities, correB its irregularities, and to thoroughly re~ form it. Their Committee have proceeded a con- fiderable length in this important affair. For they have, with a good deal of freedom and fe- verity.