Pharmaceutical formulas being a supplementary volume comprising a consolidation of the Medicine-stamp Acts (with historical notes), formulas for known, admitted, and approved remedies, an Australian hospitals formulary and many other recipes.

Date:
1904
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Credit: Pharmaceutical formulas being a supplementary volume comprising a consolidation of the Medicine-stamp Acts (with historical notes), formulas for known, admitted, and approved remedies, an Australian hospitals formulary and many other recipes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    been selling the preparations. There are some which we should hesitate to endorse, either owing to excessive dosage or polypharmic character ; but, taking the collection as a whole, it is eminently useful apart from its primary object. As the book is intended solely for the drug-trade, the formulas are given in pharmaceutical Latin. The rule as to quantities is the same for this volume as for Vol. I.—namely, 'solids by weight and liquids by measure '—and the customary signs employed in prescriptions are, with few exceptions, used in the formulas. Their equivalence is as follows : P) = 20 grains. 5 = 60 grains, or 60 minims, o = 437! grams> or 48° minims, lb. = 16 ounces. O = a pint of 20 ounces. Cong. = a gallon of 8 pints. References to editions of the ' British Pharmacopoeia' are, where necessary, given thus : ' ('85),' which means the ' British Pharmacopoeia,' 1885 edition. We have taken the opportunity of including in the book a Pharmacopoeia of Australian hospitals, compiled by the editorial staff of The Chemist and Druggist of Australasia. In any future editions of this work other formulas of 'known, admitted, and approved' remedies which chemists send to us for publication will be included. 42 Cannon Street, London : January, 1904.