A medical formulary based on the United States and British pharmacopias, together with numerous French, German

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MEDICAL

Preface

THE design of this work is to present, in a manner convenient for ready reference, the drugs and preparations in common use, together with formulae illustrating the manner in which they are combined by good practitioners of the present day.

Although confining himself as closely as possible to the pharmacopeias, the author has found it necessary to include some unofficinal drugs and preparations, which have come into general use since the last editions of those works were issued.

In selecting illustrative formulae, the author has drawn freely upon current medical literature, and has endeavored to give due credit for all material used. While it is impossible for him to enumerate, in this place, all the works which he has employed in this part of his task, he feels it incumbent upon him to make special mention of the HOSPITAL FORMULARY

AND POSOLOGICAL TABLE, by CHARLES ElCE, Ph.D. ; THE PHARMACOPCEIAS OF

THE LONDON HOSPITALS, by PETER SQUIRE, F.L.S. ; and THE PHARMACOPOEIA OF THE HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE THROAT AND CHEST (London), by MORELL MACKENZIE, M.D.

He takes great pleasure also in acknowledging his indebtedness to the following named gentlemen, all of whom kindly furnished him formulae which they have found useful :

Fordyce Barker, M.D., LL.D., James K. Learning, M.D., Andrew H. Smith, M.D., A. A. Smith, M.D., F. A. Burrall, M.D., George H. Fox,

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M.D., F. R Sturgis, M.D., S. H. Dessau, M.D., James Knight, M.D., V. P. Gibney, M.D., Daniel Lewis, M.D., W. M. Chamberlain, M.D., G. M. Lefferts, M.D., F. H. Bosworth, M.D., S. Sexton, M.D., and R. Tauszky, M.D.

To Charles Rice, Ph. D., and to Prof. J. U. Lloyd, of Cincinnati, Ohio, the author is deeply indebted for many pharmaceutical processes, relating especially to unomcinal drugs and preparations ; and to his friend H. G. Piffard, M.D., for much valuable assistance during the progress of the work.

L. J.

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