The London dispensatory, containing: I, the elements of pharmacy; II, the botanical description, natural history, chemical analysis, and medicinal properties, of the substances of the materia medica; III, the pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the pharmacopoeias of the London, the Edinburgh, and the Dublin Colleges of Physicians. The whole forming a practical synopsis of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics: / by Anthony Todd Thomson.

  • Anthony Todd Thomson
Date:
1826
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Credit: The London dispensatory, containing: I, the elements of pharmacy; II, the botanical description, natural history, chemical analysis, and medicinal properties, of the substances of the materia medica; III, the pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the pharmacopoeias of the London, the Edinburgh, and the Dublin Colleges of Physicians. The whole forming a practical synopsis of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics: / by Anthony Todd Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE LONDON DISPENSATORY. PART I. ELEMENTS OF PHARMACY. pHARMACY is that branch of the science of chemistry which relates to the combination and mixture of different substances, for the purposes of medicine. Its practice presupposes a knowledge of the ultimate prin¬ ciples of the substances employed in its operations, and of their chemical agencies; and thence, of the general doctrines of Chemical Science. The elements, therefore, of Pharmacy, properly speaking, are those of Chemistry ; and without a knowledge of these, it can neither be theoretically under¬ stood, nor advantageously practised as an art. As, however, it would be impossible in this place to give more than an outline or epitome of the elements of Chemistry; and as the second part of this work is intended to contain the analysis as well as the history and an account of the uses of the different articles of the Materia Medica which constitute the subjects of Pharmacy, I shall confine the term Elements of Pharmacy to comprehend those general principles of che¬ mical action which enable us to reason on, and perceive the proximate causes of the results of pharmaceutical combin¬ ations; and to the explanations of the operations of Phar¬ macy, with a description of the apparatus. B
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