A formulary for the preparation and medical administration of certain new remedies / Translated from the French ... with annotations and additional articles, by James Manby Gully.

  • Magendie, François, 1783-1855
Date:
1835
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Credit: A formulary for the preparation and medical administration of certain new remedies / Translated from the French ... with annotations and additional articles, by James Manby Gully. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    employed in this country, and many are only known in name to the mass of practitioners. It is only by plac¬ ing before them in a compendious form the properties and modes of administration of the substances in ques¬ tion, that the desirable end of their ultimate and gene¬ ral introduction into British practice can be attained. This, I conceive, the present Formulary admirably adapted to do. Like the greater number of French writers, M. Ma- gendie is sometimes given to slide into longueurs. In such instances I have made rather a paraphrase than a close translation of his words. Again, as the con¬ tinual transformation of the French measures and doses would have led to confusion, if not to error, I have pre¬ ferred to retain them in the original terms, referring the reader to the subjoined comparative table of the French and English weights and measures. In all other respects I have closely adhered to the text. To many of the articles I have appended in brackets such notes as my own reading and observation, or those of my more talented medical friends, have given me opportunity of compiling. As Creosote is a remedy that promises to take a con¬ spicuous station among therapeutical agents, I have, under the head of “ Additional Articles,” given an ac¬ count of its preparation, properties, and applications. In thesame category I have placed the Ioduret of iron. 11, Gerrard Street, Soho.