The London dispensatory, containing: I, the elements of pharmacy; II, the botanical description ... and medicinal properties, of the substances of the materia medica; III, the pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the pharmacopoeias of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians / By Anthony Todd Thomson.

  • Thomson, Anthony Todd, 1778-1849.
Date:
1830
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Credit: The London dispensatory, containing: I, the elements of pharmacy; II, the botanical description ... and medicinal properties, of the substances of the materia medica; III, the pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the pharmacopoeias of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians / By Anthony Todd Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    from the Hortus Berolinensis. Information has also been sought for, and obtained, from other sources besides books ; and I have received from individuals engaged in the drug trade some notices regarding the forms in which drugs are imported, and the modes of selecting them; which I hope will prove useful. ! The botanical descriptions of the plants have been selected chiefly from Martyn’s edition of Miller’s Gardener’s Diction- ary; the last edition of Woodville’s Medical Botany ; Smith’s Flora Britannica; Sowerby’s English Botany ; the Flora Peru- viana; Rheede’s Hortus Malabaricus ; and the Flora Danica ; but in every instance when the living plants could be ob- tained, — which was the case with the greater number of the indigenous plants, and many exotics also, — the descriptions have been either drawn up from nature, or those adopted have been carefully compared with the plants themselves, and any errors corrected. For other information on this part of the subject, the excellent work of Geriner de Fructibus ; Ber- gius’ Materia Medica a Regno Vegetabili ; Murray's Appara- tus Medicaminum ; Alston’s Materia Medica; and the Linnean, and the Philosophical Transactions, with the best books of travels, have been consulted. For the chemical part I have principally consulted the last editions of the System of Chemistry of Dr. Thomson, and that of my very ingenious friend Dr. Murray; the Annales de Chimie; the Journal de Physique ; the Philosophical Trans- actions ; and the best chemical papers inserted in the periodi- cal publications ; nor have I refrained from taking advantage of the observations of Dr. Duncan contained in the Edinburgh New Dispensatory.!_ As this is undoubtedly the most impeort- 1 The following are the more important of the additional works, which have also been consulted :— Flore, du. Dictionnaire des Sciences Médicales, décrites par F. P; Chaumeton, Chamberet et Poiret. 8vo. Paris. Histoire Nat. et Med. des Cases, &c.: L. T. Calloden de Geneve, M.D. 4to. Montpelier, 1816. Materia Medica of Hindostan, &c, &c. By Whitelaw Ainslie, M.D. 4to. Madras, 1813. A Treatise on the Medicinal Leech, &c. &c. By T. Johnson, M.D. 8vo. London. Mem. de la Société Imperiale des Nut. de Moscow, 4to. Moscow, 1809. Asiatic Researches, 4to. Calcutta,