Excerpt from A Supplement to the Pharmacopoeia, and Treatise on Pharmacology: In General Including Not Only the Drugs and Preparations Used by Practitioners of Medicine, but Also Most of Those Employed in the Chemical Art; Together With a Collection of the Most Useful Medical Formulae As physicians do not themselves prepare the medicines they exhibit to their patients, it is very convenient for them to inti mate to the neighbouring retailers, Whom the sick employ for this purpose, the medicines they are likely to order, and the mode in which they wish certain compounds, that require time for their preparation, should be kept ready in the shops: this, and this alone, is the true office of a Pharmacopoeia. And indeed the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, in the Preface to their Codex Medicamentarius, or Pharmacopoeia, expressly disclaim any intention of hindering practitioners from using other remedies, or shopkeepers from keeping other articles, besides what are men tioned by them; and further observe, that they have inserted several popular medicines, although not likely to be ordered by the faculty themselves, in order that they may be uniformly pre pared, and of course uniform in their action. 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.