An epitome of pharmaceutical chemistry : whereby the art of prescribing scientifically may be facilitated ... arranged according to the London Pharmacopoeia / by Rees Price.

  • Price, Rees.
Date:
1821
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Credit: An epitome of pharmaceutical chemistry : whereby the art of prescribing scientifically may be facilitated ... arranged according to the London Pharmacopoeia / by Rees Price. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    low Wash,” also, are examples of the same kind, and our common effervescing draught O © is another familiar instance ; but it is found that many substances, decomposing' each other when in solution, may be combined in the dry way” (as the Chemist calls it), that is, the compound mass may be put into the shape of a pill, without necessarily in- volving* decomposition; for example, Calo- mel and Soap—Tartar Emetic with Rhu- • barb or Soap—Opium and Metallic Salts, &c. It is not necessary, therefore, that we should fetter ourselves to an implicit com- pliance with the precepts laid down here. What process occurs in Gastric Chemistry, preventing* that play of affinities which takes place out of the body, I am not pre- pared to discuss; the knowledge of the fact