The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London, M. DCCC. IX / translated into English, with notes, &c. by Richard Powell.

  • Royal College of Physicians of London.
Date:
1815
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Credit: The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London, M. DCCC. IX / translated into English, with notes, &c. by Richard Powell. 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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    College to consider whether they will claim any peculiar exemption for the compounder of medicines, or will not rather promote and assist in the general adoption of one uniform standard, to which there can be no other objection than the ideal difficulty of its first introduction. Whenever too that period shall arrive, I most sincerely hope that an increase of intercourse and of mu- tual respect and good will between the constituted authorities in medicine in the different parts of the British empire will have laid a foundation for the establish- ment of one national Pharmacopoeia, which I am daily more and more convinced will be a measure of the utmost importance to the public good, and remove the evils which exist in the shops from the incorporation of the three. After thus speaking of the original work of the College, it is necessary for me to add a few words respecting the translation, which in the first instance cost me no small time and trouble, and which I have in the present edition endeavoured to correct and improve, measuring however my notions of the necessity of either, not by the abuse of