The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Faithfully translated from the fourth edition. With useful notes on the materia medica and practical observations on the preparations both simple and compound ; To which are added, the prescriptions as well extemporaneous and officinal, in the use at the Royal Hospital / By W. Lewis.

Date:
1748
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Credit: The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Faithfully translated from the fourth edition. With useful notes on the materia medica and practical observations on the preparations both simple and compound ; To which are added, the prescriptions as well extemporaneous and officinal, in the use at the Royal Hospital / By W. Lewis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [■ * TO THE READER. A Thorough knowledge of the Materia Me- dica, and a Ikilful method of preparing and compounding limples, are allowed by all to be a molt neceffary part of the art of phylic. Good medicines, properly adminiftred, promife health; bad ones, or fuch as are ill com¬ pounded, prove either produdlive of numerous mif~ chiefs, or incapable of doing any real fervice to the lick. Since fo much depends upon medicines, furely the right method of difpoling and com¬ pounding them ought to be looked upon as a principal point in the art of healing. It is upon this account that the art of pharmacy has been every where cultivated by phylicians of the moll diftinguifhed abilities 3 infomuch, that almoft every principal city is furnilhed with a pharma¬ copoeia of its own. Nor has the royal college of phylicians in Edinburgh been vyanting in this re- fpedt3 as fufiiciently appears from the little work 2 publilhed