Excerpt from The Practitioner's Pharmacopoeia and Universal Formulary, Containing 2000 Classified Prescriptions: Selected From the Practice of the Most Eminent British and Foreign Medical Authorities; With an Abstract of the Three British Pharmacopoeias, and Much Other Useful Information for the Practitioner and Student Coup de Soleil, Poisons, etc. Secondly, to the corree tion of some important errors in the doses of powerful medi cines which have crept into the English edition; thus the dose of the red iodide of mercury is put down in the English edition as half a gr. To two grs. Thirdly, to the introduction, to some extent, of the {nomenclature and preparations of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia. Fourthly, to the addition of various formulae which the experience of the Editor has proved to be highly valuable. In its present shape the Editor hopes that the work will be found useful to a large circle of practitioners of medicine, who will find in it not only suggestions as to the remedies to be used in the treatment of disease, but formulae by the use of which those suggestions may be carried out. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.