The London dispensatory, containing: I, the elements of pharmacy; II, the botanical description ... and medicinal properties, of the substances of the materia medica; III, the pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the pharmacopoeias of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians / By Anthony Todd Thomson.

  • Thomson, Anthony Todd, 1778-1849.
Date:
1830
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Credit: The London dispensatory, containing: I, the elements of pharmacy; II, the botanical description ... and medicinal properties, of the substances of the materia medica; III, the pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the pharmacopoeias of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians / By Anthony Todd Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE OF ARRANGEMENT. Section I. OF THE MORE GENERAL AGENTS INFLUENCING PHARMACEUTICAL COMBINATIONS. I. ATTRACTION. a. Attraction of Aggregation. b. Chemical Attraction, or Affinity. IJ. REPULSION. Powers by which it is produced. 1. CALORIC. 2, LIGHT. 3, ELECTRICITY and GALVANISM. Section II. OF THE CONSTITUTIONS AND COMBINATIONS OF SUBSTANCES. . OF SOLIDS. 2. OF FLUIDS. 3. OF AERIFORM SUBSTANCES OY GASES. Sas — Secrion III. OF PHARMACEUTICAL OPERATIONS, AND THE DESCRIPTION OF THE APPARATUS. eet Section I. Tue agents which more generally influence chemical and, thence, pharmaceutical combinations, are Attraction and Re- pulsion. I. ATTRACTION. ATTRACTION is the term employed to denote that power which causes bodies to approach towards each other, and which preserves them in a state of union after they come into contact. We are ignorant of the cause of this power, but some of the laws respecting it are sufficiently evident; and from observing the different phenomena to which these give rise, we are inclined to believe that there are different species of attractions, although, perhaps, the difference is more in degree than in kind. _ When this power is exerted on masses of matter, at sensible distances, in the direct ratio of the quantity of the matter, and