Pharmacologia : or the history of medicinal substances, with a view to establish the art of prescribing and of composing extemporaneous formulae upon fixed and scientific principles; illustrated by formulae, in which the intention of each element is designated by key letters / by John Ayrton Paris.

Date:
1820
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Credit: Pharmacologia : or the history of medicinal substances, with a view to establish the art of prescribing and of composing extemporaneous formulae upon fixed and scientific principles; illustrated by formulae, in which the intention of each element is designated by key letters / by John Ayrton Paris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    that il rather merits the appellation of a new work, than that of a renewed edition of a former one. The Historical Introduction, comprehending the substance of two of the lectures, which were delivered in the last year, before the Royal College of Physicians of London, from the recently established chair of Materia Medica, has been prefixed to the work, at the desire of several of the auditors'; and I confess my readiness to comply with this request, as it en- abled me at once to obviate any misconception, or unjust representation, of those remarks, which I felt it my bounden duty to oiler to the College. \ It will be observed, that the work itself is divided into two separate and very distinct parts, the first com- prehending the principles of the art of combination,— the second, the medicinal history, and chemical habi- tudes of the bodies which are the subjects of such combination. These comprise every legitimate source of instruction, and to the young and industrious student, they are at once the Loom and the Raw Material. Let him therefore abandon those flimsy and ill adapted textures, that are kept ready fabricated for the service of ignorance and indolence, and by actuating the machinery himself, weave the materials with which he is here presented, into the forms and objects that may best fulfil his intentions, and meet the various exigencies of each particular occasion. I. A. P. Dover Street, January, 1820. I