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The general dispensatory, containing a translation of the pharmacopoeias of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh: together with that of the Royal Hospital of Edinburgh, from the last edition. To which are added, the doses, virtues, and uses of the simples as well as compounds ... / [Richard Brookes].

  • Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.
Date:
1765
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Credit: The general dispensatory, containing a translation of the pharmacopoeias of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh: together with that of the Royal Hospital of Edinburgh, from the last edition. To which are added, the doses, virtues, and uses of the simples as well as compounds ... / [Richard Brookes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Edinburgh, which will be found more. than fufficient to anfwer any Medical Purpofe, the Choice, not the Number of Medicines, is the principal Thing to be regarded in _Treatifes.of this Kind. Nor that we are arrived at the Ne plus ultra of Pharmaceutic Knowledge; for fuch new Difcoveries are daily made, as will re- rdound to the immortal Honour of thofe induftrious Practitioners, who have employ- ‘ed their Skill fo fuccefsfully for the Benefit of ‘Mankind. And though’ the Number of Méeditaments has not been ereatly augment- ed, yet a more judicious Application’ of ‘thofe already known has certainly been made, which has enriched the Medical Store, with equal Advantage t to the Art of Healing. HoH great Obfacte to the nereandkinet f this Kind of Learning, has been a Fond- efi for Compofitions, confifting of a great Variety of Ingredients which have been kept in the Shops, and recommended againft Dif- eafes.of all Sorts. This.rendered an Enquiry into the Nature of every S/mple of little Ufe, _fince they were feldom or never trufted to alone, to anfwer any Intention of Core. But we now live ina more enlightened Age; and Medicine ie to be returning back, by