The Eclectic and general dispensatory : comprehending a system of pharmacy, materia medica, the formulae of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias, prescriptions of many eminent physicians, and receipts for the most common empirical medicines / collated from the best authorities, by an American physician.

Date:
1827
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Credit: The Eclectic and general dispensatory : comprehending a system of pharmacy, materia medica, the formulae of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias, prescriptions of many eminent physicians, and receipts for the most common empirical medicines / collated from the best authorities, by an American physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    » • PREFACE THE object of this work is to give to the Student a quantity of valuable matter, in an elementary form as far as regards the department of Pharmacy, and to combine materials of a highly useful nature for the benefit of the Physician, in the history of the Articles of the Materia Medica, both foreign and domestic. Whilst the Formulae of regular practice, as detailed in the Dispensatories of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, furnish an extended view of the legitimate Implements used in our art, those of the empiric are also given, in order to divest of mystery those pernicious engines, by which so much mischief is done, and thus limit the extension of a species of crime, which unites in itself both robbery and murder, and which now more than ever threatens the greatest injury to the people. All the materials from foreign sources which could add to its usefulness, have been freely used in compiling the Work.