

8 LEA &, BLANCHARD'S PUBLICATIONS. 





NOW READY 



KOYLE'S MATERIA MEDICA. 



MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS 



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INCLUDING THE PREPARATIONS OF THE PHARMACOPOEIAS OF LONDON, 



EDINBURGH, DUBLIN, AND OF THE UNITED STATES. 



WITH MANY NEW MEDICINES. 



BY J. FORBES ROYLE. M.D.. F. R. S 



Col 



lege. London, &c. &.C. 



EDITED BY JOSEPH CARSON, M.D., 



Professor of Materia Medica in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, &c &c. 



WITH NINETY-EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS. 



inr 8** Specimen of the Cnt» 9 but not of the Paper or Working; on next Page. 



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In one large octavo volume of about 700 pages. 



Being one of the most beautiful Medical works published in this Country* 





The want has been felt and expressed for some time, of a text-book on Materia Medica, which 

 should occupy a place between the encyclopaedic works, such as Pereira, and the smaller treatises 

 which present but a meagre outline of the science. It has been the aim of the author of the 

 present work to fill this vacancy, and by the use of method and condensation, he has been enabled 

 to present a volume to the student, which will be found to contain what is necessary in a complete 

 and thorough text-book of the science, encumbered with few unnecessary details. The editor, 

 Dr. Carson, has added whatever was wanted to adapt it to the Pharmacopoeia of the United States, 

 and it is confidently recommended to the student and practitioner of medicine, as one of the best 

 text-books on the subject, now before the profession. — Great care has been taken in its mechanical 

 execution. 



" Dr. Royle's manual, while it has the convenience of being in a portable form, contains as much 

 matter as would fill two octavo volumes in large type. Our readers will judge, from the remarks 

 which we have already made, that we think highly of this work. The subject is well treated, the 

 matter practical and well arranged, and we do not hesitate to recommend it as a most useful 

 volume to the student and practitioner. It is a good specimen of typography, and the engravings 

 are well executed." — Medical Gazette. 



medica, and the class of productions at the other extreme, which are necessarily imperfect from 

 their small extent. Such a work as this does not admit of analysis and scarcely of detailed critical 

 examination. It would, however, be injustice to the learned author not to state that, in addition 

 to what former works on the subject necessarily contained, the reader will find here not a little 

 that is either original, or introduced for the first time, more especially in the details of botany ana 

 natural history, and in what may be termed the archaeology of drugs.— The British and Foreign 

 Medical Review. , 



Of the various works that have from time to time appeared on materia medica on the plan °£ th ® 

 one before us, there is none more deserving of commendation. From the examination which we 

 have given, accuracy and perspicuity seem to characterize it throughout, as a text book of rerer- 

 ence to the student of medicine, and especially of pharmacy in its application to medicine, none 

 could be better. J . 



We think that every one who can afford it should possess this excellent work, the value of which 

 has been greatly enhanced by the additions of Dr. Carson, than whom no one is more competen 

 to estimate it correctly, and to make such additions as may adapt it for American service.— l™ 

 Medical Examiner. 



We have sufficiently extended our notice of the manual of materia medica and therapeutics, to 

 ■how that it possesses great merit, which will be a pretty sure guarantee of its acceptableness to 

 the profession. The department of materia medica is now so extended, that the treatises recently 

 issued from the press, partake of the nature of cyclopaedias. To the student, whether of pharmacy 



A*lL° f m r edlcine ' ™ extended manual as the present cannot but be regarded with favor.— I** 

 American Journal of Pharmacy. 



whol 



We cannot, however, conclude 



without expressing our warm approbation of the ▼oJ nm ® "J) 

 ct from the author's high reputation.— The Medic o-Chtrurgic 



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Me*uw. ce rtainly not detract from the author's high reputatio 



