Selecta è praescriptis : Selections from physicians' prescriptions; containing lists of the terms, phrases, contractions, and abbreviations used in prescriptions ... For the use of medical and pharmaceutical students / [edited by Joseph Inge].

  • Pereira, Jonathan, 1804-1853
Date:
1890
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    Scribonius Largus, a Eoman physician who lived about the middle of the first century after Christ, wrote a work entitled Coinpositiones Medica, which contains nearly 300 medical formulae taken from various authors. It is the oldest pharmacopoeia extant; but its style is in- elegant. Galen, who lived a.d. 130-200 or 201, wrote two treatises 0?i the Composition of Medicines, Ilepl ^apfiaKoov, containing a consider- able number of formulae for the preparation of compound medicines. Sabur, the son of Sahel (Sabiu- Ibn Sahel), the director of the medical school of lonidasbur (Nishapoor), is said to have published, in the 9th century a.d., the first Arabic dispensatory or Kardbddin, but it is not now extant. The first official British pharmacopoeia was that published by the Eoyal College of Physicians of London, a.d. 1618. It was entitled Phamiaco- poeia Londinensis, in qtia Medicamenta mitiqtia, ct nova usitatissima collecta, opera Medicorum Collegii LoJidinensis. Lond. 1618. The last edition was published in 1851. It was superseded, 0 8 also were the Edinburgh and Dublin Pharma- copoeias, by the British Pharmacopoeia of 1867.