A universal formulary : containing the methods of preparing and administering officinal and other medicines the whole adapted to physicians and pharmaceutists / by R. Eglesfeld Griffith.

  • Griffith, R. Eglesfeld (Robert Eglesfeld), 1798-1850.
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[1854]
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Credit: A universal formulary : containing the methods of preparing and administering officinal and other medicines the whole adapted to physicians and pharmaceutists / by R. Eglesfeld Griffith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION. Tn preparing a new edition of the “ Universal Formulary,” the Editor has en- deavored to carry out, as far as possible, the views of its lamented Author. Great care has been exercised to avoid those errors which almost inevitably occur in a work of this kind, deriving its materials, as it does, from a variety of sources, and from dif- ferent languages. The additions are numerous, amounting to about seventy pages. Those made to the Formulary proper have the names of the authorities attached to them, and those to the practical remarks, in- the latter part of the work, are enclosed in brackets [ ]. The last editions of the United States, the London, and the Dublin Pharmacopoeias, as well as of L’Officine, an invaluable work on practical Pharmacy, by Dorvault, of Paris, have been freely used. The Editor has also availed himself of the valuable processes and formulm that have appeared within the past three years both in the Pharmaceutic and Medical Journals, and most of them will be found under the appropriate heads. Besides the strictly medical formulae, many have been added from authentic sources for the preparation of essences, perfumes, inks, soaps, varnishes, &c. &c., which the country Pharmaceutist often finds desirable to manufacture for himself. Philadelphia, May, 1864.