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BLANCHARD & LEA'S PUBLICATIONS. (Materia Medica, 



NEW UNIVERSAL FORMULARY. (Lately Issued.) 



A UNIVERSAL" FORMULARY, 



CONTAINING THE 



METHODS OF PREPARING AND ADMINISTERING 



OFFICINAL AND OTHER MEDICINES, 



THE WHOLE ADAPTED TO PHYSICIANS AND PHARMACEUTISTS, 

 BY R. EGLESPELD GRIFFITH, M. D., 



Author of "American Medical Botany," &c. 

 In one large octavo volume of568 pages, double columns. 



In this work will be found not only a very complete collection of formulae and pharmaceutic 

 processes, collected with great care from the best modern authorities of all countries, but also a 

 vast amount of important information on all collateral subjects. To insure the accuracy so neces- 

 sary to a work of this nature, the sheets have been carefully revised by Dr. Robert Bridges, while 

 Mr. William Procter, Jr., has contributed numerous valuable formulae, and useful suggestions. 



The want of a work like the present has long been felt in this country, where the physician and 

 apothecary have hitherto had access to no complete collection of formulas, gathered from the 

 pharmacopoeias and therapeutists of all nations. Not only has this desideratum been thoroughly 

 accomplished in this volume, but it will also be found to contain a very large number of recipes for 

 empirical preparations, valuable to the apothecary and manufacturing chemist, the greater part of 

 which have hitherto not been accessible in this country. It is farther enriched with accurate ta- 

 bles of the weights and measures of Europe; a vocabulary of the abbreviations and Latin terms 

 used in Pharmacy; rules for the administration of medicines ; directions for officinal preparations; 

 remarks on poisons and their antidotes ; with various tables of much practical utility. To facili- 

 tate reference to the whole, extended indices have been added, giving to the work the advantages 

 of both alphabetical and systematic arrangement. 



To show the variety and importance of the subjects treated of, the publishers subjoin a very 

 condensed 



SUMMARY OF THE CONTENTS, IN ADDITION TO THE FORMULARY PROPER, 

 WHICH EXTENDS TO BETWEEN THREE AND FOUR HUNDRED LARGE DOUBLE- 

 COLUMNED PAGES. 



PREFACE. 

 INTRODUCTION. 



WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 



Weights of the United States and GreatBritain. 

 Foreign Weights. Measures. 



SPECIFIC GRAVITY. 



TEMPERATURES FOR CERTAIN PHARMACEUTICAL OPE- 

 RATIONS. 



HYDROMETKICAL EQUIVALENTS. 



SPECIFIC G RAVI IIES OF SOME OF THE PREPARATIONS 

 OF THE PHARMACOPOEIAS. 



RELATION BETWEEN DIFFERENT THERMOMETRICAL 

 SCALES. 



EXPLANATION OF PRINCIPAL ABBREVIATIONS USED IN 

 FORMULA. 



VOCABULARY OF WORDS EMPLOYED IN PRESCRIPTIONS. 

 OBSERVATIONS ON THE M ANAGEMENT OF THE SICK ROOM. 

 Ventilation of the Sick room. Temperature of 

 the Sick room Cleanliness in the Sick room. 

 Quiet in the Sick room. Examination and Pre- 

 servation of the Excretion?. Administration of 

 Medicine. Furniture of a Sick room. Proper 

 use of Utensils for Evacuations. 



DOSF.S OF MEDICINRS. 



Age Sex. Temperament. Idiosyncrasy 

 Ihiiiit. Stale of the System. Time of day. In- 

 tervals between Doses. 



RULES FOR ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICINES. 



Acids Antacids \milithics and Litliontriptics 

 Antispasiiiodics Anthelminiics Cathartics. - 

 Enemata. Suppositories. Demulcents or Einol 

 lienis Diaphoretics. Diluents Diuretics 

 Emetics Emmenatjo-'ues Epispa*tics. Er- 

 rhu.es. Escnaroltcs. Expectorants Narco 

 lies Refrigerants Sedatives. Sialagogues. 

 Stimulants. Tonics. 



MANAGEMENT OF CONVALESCENCE AND RELAPSES. 



DIETETIC PREPARATIONS NOT INCLUDED 

 AMONG THE PREVIOUS PRESCRIPTIONS. 

 LIST OF 1NCOMPATIBLES. 

 POSOLOGICAL TABLES OF THE MOST IM- 



POR TAN r MEDICINES. 



TABLE OF PHARMACEUTICAL NAMES 

 WHICH DIFFER IN THE U. STATES 

 AND BRITISH Pri ARMACOPCEIAS. 

 OFFICINAL PREPARATIONS AND DIREC- 

 TIONS. 



INTERNAL REMEDIES. 



Powders. Pills and Boluses. Extracts. Con- 

 fections. Conserves, Electuarie* Pulps. Sy- 

 rups. Melliies or Honeys - Infu>ions Decoc- 

 tions Tinctures Wines. Vinegars -Mixtures. 

 Medicated Waters Distilled, Essential, or Vola- 

 tile Oil-. Fixed Oils and Fats. Alkaloids. 

 Spirits. Troches or Lozenges. Inhalations. 

 EXTERNAL REMEDIES. 



Baths -Cold Bath Cool Bath. Temperate Bath. 

 Tepid Bath Warm Bath. Hot Baih. Shower 

 Bath. Local Bath> Vapor Bath. Warm Air 

 Bath. Douches. Medicated Baths Affusion. 

 Sponging Fomentations. Cataplasms, or Poul- 

 tices. Lotions, Luiunents, Embrocation.- Ve.-i- 

 catories, or Blisters. Issues. Setons. Oint- 

 ments. Cerates. Plasters. Fumigations. 

 BLOOD-LETTING. 



General Blood-Letting-. Venesection. Arterio- 

 torny. Topical Blood-Letting Cupping.-Leecb- 

 ing Scarifications. 

 POISONS 



INDEX OF DISEASES AND THEIR REMEDIES. 

 INDEX OF PHARMACEUTICAL AND BOTANI- 

 CAL NAMES 

 GENERAL INDEX. 



From the condensed summary of the contents thus given it will be seen that the completeness 

 of this work renders it of much practical value to all concerned in the prescribing or dispensing 

 of medicines. 



