A supplement to the Pharmacopoeia : being a treatise on pharmacology in general, including not only the drugs and compounds which are used by practitioners of medicine, but also most of those which are used in the chemical arts, or which undergo chemical preparations. Together with a collection of the most useful medical formulae, an explanation of the contractions used by physicians and druggists, and also a very copious index, English and Latin, of the various names by which the articles have been known at different periods / by Samuel Frederick Gray.

Samuel Frederick Gray

Date:: 1828

Credit: A supplement to the Pharmacopoeia : being a treatise on pharmacology in general, including not only the drugs and compounds which are used by practitioners of medicine, but also most of those which are used in the chemical arts, or which undergo chemical preparations. Together with a collection of the most useful medical formulae, an explanation of the contractions used by physicians and druggists, and also a very copious index, English and Latin, of the various names by which the articles have been known at different periods / by Samuel Frederick Gray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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