The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London, MDCCCIX

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with alterations, and a duodecimo Since Mithmore alterations stili, and these can only bedistinguished by looking for sonae known potiatos disserenos botween them in the body of the

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PREFACE TO THE TRANSLATIO N. Severe steadily in what I Conceive to be the pathos my public duty, turning neither to the right nor the lest, and with an earnest Zeal to Contribute to the advan Cenient of a profession towhicli I am bound by inclination as weli asgratitude. Perhaps I may err in judgment, Imay be deficient in abili ty, or somelimes inattention; and I shall willingly and thankfullysubmit myself to Correction and instruction, especialty is by their means I shali be enabled hereas ter to render this translation more gene

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PREFACE. immense laborar the vegetable productions os every climate, and the former has changed iis whole system and language for a hetter. There oeemed, theres ore, to be no excuse sor delayingany longer a diligent revision of the powers of the substances used in medicine to ascertainwhether any of them ought to be expunged rom the list, as obsolete or superflUOUS. We are Without doubi greatly indebled toour immediate predecessors, inasmuch as theyrendered the processes of PharmaCy more Certain and expeditio us: sor overi in their timetho dawn os modern Philosophy had appeared, dispelling the clouds of sormer Systems, removing With the concomitant darkness theirgroundle88 apprehension8, anil, in Shori, Opening the secret recesses of nature so far as toshOW Clearly, What was incongruous, and what Was accordant; What substances Were at Vari-

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present more perfeci State of our ari; stili more which were at varianee with the improved system of nomenclature devised by philosophersos later times; and some Whicli it beCame necessary to add for the salie of greater ordor and consistency in the work itself. We have been fully aware, hoWeVer, of the great inconveni- ence and danger Whicli arise froni frequentchanges in Pharmacopoeias; but we have also seli that whatever accords most closely Withreat science will in the end become the mostestablished and most usefui. Under this impression me resolved, as far as the nature of thething admitted, to MX to medicines thoseuames Which were Correet, and whicli accordei With the composition of each, taking care atthe fame time that the tities 8hould not acquirea tength whicli mould prove inconvenient tothe prescriber. Is, therefore, in Order to express Clearly the composition Os any article, an umber of Word8 became necessa , We have

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PREFACE. preferred a more simple appellation, even thoughless scientisic. With respect to oursolves, me haVe spared nopatris to reniter the present edition as perfeci aspossibie. Νot that we are bolii enough to ima

gine that it will satisfy every body, or that it is

harshly and barbarously, as PotaSSar Upon the admission of these We for Some time paused, but what could be done against the authority ofati the naturalisis of the present day; or with What propriety Could we alone retain nam es of animalS, Vegetabies, and minera is, whicli the

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the most agreeable reward We Can receive forthe Care and labour we have bestoWed, is, suchas it is, it shali contribute to the public good, and tend to potnt out more Certa in remedies for the cure os digeases, or beCome instrumentaliOWard S a more speedy alleviation Os them.

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