1863.] 225 [Foulke. 



little volume (1668), but that he had been prevented hj ill 

 health.* 



Mr. Foulke invited the attention of the Society to the 

 impressive contrast afforded by the "Dispensatory of the 



* Opposite the title is written "Ex libris Johannis Foulke." Dr. 

 Foulke (the same gentleman who was subsequently one of the officers 

 of this Society) probably obtained the book during his visit to London, 

 at the date of his letters of introduction to Dr. Franklin, which are 

 now in the FrankHn MSS. collection of the Society. 



On the fly-leaf is the autograph of Peter Renaudet, London, 1749. 

 This was four years after the publication of the "Plan of a new 

 London Pharmacopoeia, proposed to the College of Physicians by 

 their committee appointed for that pui'pose, Lond. 1745;" and two 

 years after the publication of " Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regalis Medi- 

 corum Londinensis. Lond. 1747" (both in the Pennsylvania Hos- 

 pital Library). The Leyden Pharmacopoeia followed in 1751; but 

 Amsterdam had already published one in 1726. Fuller's P. Extem- 

 poranea, P. Bateana, and P. Domestica had appeared (the second 

 time) in 1702, 1719, and 1723. Radcliff's Practical Dispensatory 

 (4th ed.) appeared in 1721. 



Quincy's P. Officinalis et extemporanea, or Complete English Dis- 

 pensatory, appeared the third time in 1720, (eleven editions following 

 before 1769, Claudier translating it in Paris in 1749), the same year 

 with the second edition of Boerhaave's Materia Medica. 



Salmon's London translation of Bates appeared the third time in 

 1706. Shipton's London edition of the P. Bateana was as early as 

 1688. Staphorst's Officina Chymica Londinensis appeared in 1685; 

 and Labrosse's P. Persica in Paris in 1681. LaTheriaque d'Andro- 

 machus par Charas had appeared at Paris in 1668 (the year of the 

 Pharmacopoeia presented by Mr. Foulke). Mynsicht had published 

 a similar "Thesaurus" at Lubeck in 1662, and Hernandes at Rome 

 in 1651. 



Culpeper's "Physical Directory, or translation of the Dispensatory 

 made by the College of Physicians in London, and by them imposed 

 upon all the apothecaries of England, to make up their medicines 

 by," had reached its second edition in 1650. About the same time 

 (1653), at Rotterdam, appeared Zwelfer's P. Augustana Reformata. 

 But we must go back to 1567 for the appearance of the Q. Sereni 

 Samonici de Medicina Prsecepta Saluberrima, at London; and to 

 1537 for the Villanovani Syruporum Universa Ratio, at Paris. 



