ACCOUNT 



OF SOME 



CHALYBEATE PREPARATIONS 



IN THE 



PHARMACOPCEIA REGIS & REGIN^ IN HIBERNIA. 



Br ROBERT PERCEVAL, M. D. 



PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN. 



JVIaNY years ago, a Physician of deserved eminence in the 

 South of Ireland, remarked to me, that the Tinctura Satur- 

 nina of the London Pharmacopoeia 1746, had been advan- 

 tageously employed in the treatment of consumptive* and 

 hectic cases. The same effect was, some time afterwards, 

 confirmed by the report of one of the most experienced and 

 celebrated practitioners in this city, since deceased. In the 



B 2 preparation 



* In the treatment of consumptive diseases the older physicians held Chaly- 

 beates in high estimation. The practice has, for some years past, been revived 

 in these countries, where, in such complaints, Griffith's medicine has been ex- 

 tensively employed, and so far as I am capable of judging, with much success. 

 Faber's Quinta Essentia Ferri, for which a Formula is given in Bennet's Theatmm 

 Tabidorum, is nothing more than an operose preparation of acetate of Iron. 



