Volume 2

Theory and practice of chirurgical pharmacy: comprehending a complete dispensatory for the use of surgeons; with explanatory notes / [Anon].

  • Dossie, Robert, -1777
Date:
1761
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Credit: Theory and practice of chirurgical pharmacy: comprehending a complete dispensatory for the use of surgeons; with explanatory notes / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    notion, that we are, at prefent, far behind the French tn the art of furgery, there ts nothing pe~ cultar in it, that deferves at all to bave a place in a fyftem of the improved practice. A ee multiplicity of sgredients, jumoled togetber, 1 the manner of the ancients, without any pont cull mediate intention, or correfpondent relation to each other, gives the di utinguifhing character to moft of the farms 3 and jews, that the wnorance, and errors of the former times, are there rather accu- mulated, than fuperfeded. The monflrous compo- ftion of the ceahladrusn diabotanum, @ newly introduced article, compounded of near Jeventy dif cordant ingredients, in the moft abjurd proportions ; with that of the oleum catellorum; both which for reajons of another nature, I kave inferted t in the _ notes on the preparation of DaRan’s bougtes; may serve as a fpecimen: though they were not felecied for that purpofe. There are feveral of the articles, that are bere firft incorporated 1 into a regular collection of reme~ dies, which I flatter myfelf will be very accept- able to many: particularly what refpects Dr. STORCK’s admintftration of hemlock; PLUNKET’S powder Sor the cure of cancers; the Neapolitan drops; the Litbon diet drink ; Keyser’s dragees jor the venereal difeafe ; and DARAN’S bougies : though, perhaps, the two lafe may not anfwer the €Xx pechalions, which fome have entertained of their fuperiority to other medicaments, applied to the fame purpofes. The publifhing full, and fatisfac- tory accounts of nofirums ; and empirical, or newly broached remedtes, 1s. always oeaes ve of one of thefe