Medicines : their uses and mode of administration, including a complete conspectus of the three British pharmacopoeias, an account of all the new remedies, and an appendix of formulae / by J. Moore Neligan.

  • Neligan, J. Moore (John Moore), 1815-1863.
Date:
MDCCCLIV [1854]
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Credit: Medicines : their uses and mode of administration, including a complete conspectus of the three British pharmacopoeias, an account of all the new remedies, and an appendix of formulae / by J. Moore Neligan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION. GRATEFUL for the favour with which his work has been received by the profession, the author has spared no pains in preparing the present edition for the press to render it complete and accurate in every respect, still keeping prominently in view its concise and practical character. The opportunity which he has possessed, as Editor of the Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science for the last five years, of having all the periodical literature of the day both British and Foreign at command for reference, has been taken advantage of in the numerous additions and alterations, which, notwithstanding the short time that has elapsed since the publication of the third edition, he has thought right to make. The chief alterations consist, in the adaptation of the work to the last edition of the London Pharmacopoeia, and in giving now for the first time the formulae of each of the three British Pharmaco- poeias at full length,—the latter change has been suggested to the author by some professional friends in whose opinion he has confi- dence, and must much improve the utility of the book as one of