A manual of pharmacy / by William Thomas Brande.

  • Brande, William Thomas, 1788-1866.
Date:
M.DCC.XXV. [1825]
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Credit: A manual of pharmacy / by William Thomas Brande. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    INTRODUCTION. In a Manual of Chemistry, originally published in the year 1819, I have endeavoured to present the reader with a compendium of the principal facts of that science, arranged in the order in which they ' are discussed and illustrated in the Lectures de- livered in the Laboratory of the Royal Institution. The object of the present work’ is to furnish the student with a corresponding outline of the Course of Pharmacy annually given at Apothecaries’ Hall. Under the term Pharmacy I include all that re- lates to the Medical and Chemical History of the different Articles of the Materia Medica; to the mode of prescribing them; to their effects ; to their composition: these therefore are the subjects to which I have almost exclusively confined myself in the following pages; and, it is hoped that they will be found so treated as to facilitate the progress of the medical student in a branch of his pro- fession generally much neglected, and often im- perfectly taught in the schools. Consistently with the plan of my Lectures, I have adopted the list of the Materia Medica, and of the Preparations and Compounds, sanctioned by the Royal College of Physicians of London, and