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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    compiling it, and the general alterations which it has been judged proper to make ; and also to ex- plain the additional matter which I have intro- duced under the form of Notes. The first Pharmacopoeia, which is recorded to have received the stamp of any public authority, was that of Valerius Cordus, sanc- tioned by the senate of Nuremberg in 1542; since which time, on account of the facilities and advantages they afford in the practice of medicine, they have been largely multiplied in all the countries of Europe. The charter of Henry VIII. which first incorporated the London College of Physicians, bears date in 1519, and they published their first Pharma- copoeia in 1618. Since that period various revisions have taken place in the following years *, — 1618, — 1627,— 1632,— 1639,— * The following extract is added to explain the reason why two editions were published in the year l6ife. EPILOGUS. Ediraus jam secundo partu, secundo magis evcntu, Phar- njacopoeiam Londinensem. Nos (inquam) edimus, nam priorem illam informem, deformem, festinans typographus dicernus edidit ? inomo verius protrusit in lucem. Sicut calore ccstuans jecur, crudum adhuc alimentum avida quadam fame rapit a ventriculo : sic ille e manibus nostris hoc opus- culum adhuc impolitum surripuit, inconsulto, immo tunc absente Praeside et procul ab urbe avocato, qui illi limando, poliendoque potissimum invigiiavit. Qui post reditum indigne ttrens illud tot mcndis & crroribus conspurcatum, tot detrun-