A system of materia medica and pharmacy : including translations of the Edinburgh, London, and Dublin pharmacopoeias / by John Murray.

  • Murray, J. (John), -1820.
Date:
1824
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Credit: A system of materia medica and pharmacy : including translations of the Edinburgh, London, and Dublin pharmacopoeias / by John Murray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    h the powers of these substances, to give them more activity, and even by the production of new compounds, to obtain remedies which nature does not afford. These are the leading objects of Pharmacy, which is thus evidently subordinate to Materia Medica. Regarding all these objects of inquiry as belonging to one department of Medicine, it includes three general divisions. Under the first may be delivered those principles which are common to Materia Medica and Pharmacy, which embrace the chemical relations of bodies, and the changes to which they are liable, so far as is connected with their medicinal operations.—forming what may be named Pharmaceutic Chemistry. Under the second is placed the history of the substan- ces employed as remedies, constituting what is regarded as Materia Medica in the more limited sense attached to the term. And under the third may be considered the processes to which these substances are subjected, with the view of preparing them for administration, forming what is more strictly denominated Pharmacy. On these di- visions is founded the arrangement of this Work.