Volume 3

A treatise on medical and pharmaceutical chymistry, and the materia medica : to which is added, an English translation of the new edition of the pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 1788 / by Donald Monro.

  • Monro, Donald, 1727-1802.
Date:
1788
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on medical and pharmaceutical chymistry, and the materia medica : to which is added, an English translation of the new edition of the pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 1788 / by Donald Monro. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    PREFACE. IT is now near half a century fince our pre- decelTors executed, with care and judgment, the duty we are now about to fulfil. In the mean time, although medicine has not kept pace, in point of improvement, with the other arts, yet it has received many aids of no little moment from the difcoveries and induftry of others, par- ticularly of thofe who have of late years applied themfelves with fuck afliduity to the cultivation of chymiftry. As the nature of our office required of us to examine all the different inftruments of the medical art, we fhould not have thought that we had difchargcd our duty to the public, imlefs we had drawn from modern chymiftry whatever was thought to be ufeful, or would add improvement to phyfic. For thefe reafons we have ufed' our beft endeavours to offer to the public, the chymical part of this work, not only free from errors, but more perfe6t and poliflbed, a'nd better digefted and arranged, than it has hitherto been with us. Nor has our attention been fo much taken up with this, as to make us neglefl: pr examine other things only in a fltght or cur-