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.

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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. Having had occasiou, M'hilst engaged in the pre- paration of the British PharmacopoBia, to make frequent reference to the formulas used in the different London Hospitals which I had classi- lied for convenience ; it occurred to me, as also to some of my friends, that such a classified collection of these formuhe, 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 lo Pharmaceutists who may bo called upon to make up prescriptions according to the Hospital formuLT. I also thought that their publication in this form might suggest to the different Hospital authorities, when preparing new editions of iheir respective Pharmacopoeias, whether it would not be ad\isable to modify many of tlioir