Excerpt from A Conspectus of the Pharmacopoeias of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians: Being a Practical Compendium of Materia Medica and Pharmacy To make up for the shortness of the descriptions In the body of the work, a more general and full account of each Of the classes of sub stances employed, is given ih the Introduction; and to facilitate the art of prescription to the student, a few of the more common formula are introduced by way of example; besides a table, graduating the doses of medicines to the ages of the patients. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.