Pharmacographia : a history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in Great Britain and British India / by Friedrich A. Flückiger and Daniel Hanbury.

  • Flückiger, Friedrich A. (Friedrich August), 1828-1894.
Date:
1874
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Credit: Pharmacographia : a history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in Great Britain and British India / by Friedrich A. Flückiger and Daniel Hanbury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Desciiption, succeeded by one in which the more salient features of Microscopic Structure have been set forth. The authors have not thought it desirable to amplify the last- named section, as the subject deserves to be treated in a special work, and to be illustrated by engravings. Written descriptions of microscopic structure are tedious and uninteresting, and however carefully drawn up, must often fail to convey the true meaning which would be easily made evident by the pencil. The reader who wishes for illustrations of the minute structure of drugs may consult the works named in the foot-note,-^ The next division includes the important subject of Chemical Composition, in which the authors have striven to point out to the reader familiar with chemistry, what are the constituents of greatest interest in each particular drug,—what the characters of the less common of those constituents,—and by whom and at what date the chief investigations have been made. A knowledge of the name and date provides a clue to the original memoir, which may usually be found either in extenso or in abstract, in more than one periodical. It has been no part of the authors' plan to supersede reference to standard works on chemistry, or to describe the chemical characters of substances which may be easily ascertained from those sources of infor- mation which should be within the reach of every pharma- ceutical inquirer. In the section devoted to Production and Commerce, the authors have given such statistics and other trade information as they could obtain from reliable sources ; but they regret that this section is of very unequal value. Duties have been abolished, and a general and continuous simplification of tariffs and trade regulations has ensued. The details therefore that used to be preserved regarding the commerce in drugs, exist no longer in anything like their former state of completeness : hence the fragmentary nature of much of the information recorded under this head. ^ Berg (Otto) Anatomischer Atlas zurpharmazeutischen Waarenkunde Berlin 1865. 4to. with 50 plates. ' ' _ Fliickiger (F. A.) Grundlagen der pharmaceuiischen Waarenkunde, EinleUuna m das btudium der Fharmacognosie, Berlin, 1873. 8vo. Planchon (Gustave) Traite pratique de la determination des drogues simvles dongme vegetale, Vans, 187i. 8vo. (in progress). ^