The pharmacopoeias of twenty-nine of the London hospitals : arranged in groups for comparison, except the Children's and German, which are placed in the addenda / by Peter Squire.

  • Squire, Peter.
Date:
1891
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Credit: The pharmacopoeias of twenty-nine of the London hospitals : arranged in groups for comparison, except the Children's and German, which are placed in the addenda / by Peter Squire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE FIRST EDITION. Having had occasion, whilst engaged in the pre- paration of the British Pharmacopceia, to make frequent reference to the formula used in the different London Hospitals which I had classi- fied for convenience ; it occurred to me, as also to some of my friends, that such a classified collection of these formula, many of them very valuable and not generally known, would be acceptable to the Profession in general, and particularly useful as a ready work of reference to Pharmaceutists who may be called upon to make up prescriptions according to the Hospital formula-. I also thought that their publication in this form might suggest to the different Hospital authorities, when preparing new editions of their respective Pharmacopoeias, whether it would not be advisable to modify many of their