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.
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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.

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    At the Court at the Queen's Palace, the 26th of July, 1809. Archbishop of Canterbury. Mr. Chancellor of the Ex- Lord Mulgrave. WHEREAS there was this day read at the Board, the humble memorial of Sir Lucas Pepys, Baronet, Physician to his Majesty, and President of the Col- lege or Commonalty of the Faculty of Physic in London, setting forth, that the said President andCollege have, with great care, pains, and industry, revised, corrected, and reformed a book by them formerly published, intituled Pharma- copccia Cdllegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis, prescribing and directing the manner of preparing all sorts of medicines therein contained, together with the true weights and measures by which they ought to be made: which book is now perfected and ready to be published, and, it is conceived, will contribute to the public good of His Majesty's Subjects, by preventing all deceits, differences, and uncertainties in making or compounding of medicine, if, for the future, the man- ner and form prescribed thereinshould be practised by Apothecaries and others in their compositions of medicines: The Memorialist therefore most hum bly prays, that His Majesty will be graciously pleased to enforce the observance thereof in such manner as to His Majesty shall seem meet: His Majesty this day took the said memorial into His Royal Consideration, and being desirous to provide in all cases for the common good of his people, and being persuaded that the establish- ing the general use of the said book may tend to the prevention of such deceits in the making and compounding of medicines, wherein the lives and health of His Majesty’s Subjects are so highly concerned, hath therefore thought fit, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, hereby to notify to all Apothecaries and others concerned, to the intent they may not pretend ignorance thereof, that the said book called Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis is perfected and ready to be published : and Ilis Majesty doth therefore strictly require, charge, and command all and singular Apothecaries and others, whose business it is to compound medicines, or distil oils or waters, or make other extracts, within any part of His Majesty’s kingdom of Great Britain, called England, dominion of [Vales, or town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, that they, and every of them, immediately after the said Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis shall be printed and published, do not compound or make any medicine or medicinal re- ceipt or prescription, or distil any oil or waters, or make other extracts than are or shall be in the said Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis men- tioned or named, in any other manner or form than is ot shall be directed, pre- scribed, and set down in the said book, and according to the weights and mea- sures that are or shall be therein limited, except it shall be by the special direc- tion or prescription of some learned Physician in that behalf. And His Majesty doth hereby declare that the offenders to the contrary shall not only incur His Majesty’s just displeasure, but be proceeded against for such their contempt and offences, according to the utmost severity of the law. PRESENT The King’s Most Excellent Majesty. Lord Chancellor. Lord President. Earl of Liverpool Earl of Harrowby. Mr. Secretary Canning. Sir David Dundas, K.P. STEPH. COTTERELL.