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where it will be faithfully executed; it will follow that this latter 
prescription may prove a poison. We repeat it again, the pharma- 
ceutist cannot, proprio motu, substitute one remedy for another, nor 
alter the dose prescribed by a physician, without incurring fearful 
consequences." 
A table of abbreviations and symbols in pharmacy, terminates 
and completes the first part of the Officine. 
The second part, headed Pharmaceutical Dispensatory, occupies 
542 pages. It is an alphabetical description and arrangement of 
the simple substances used in medicine, and of the preparations 
derived from them, which is exceedingly comprehensible as to ma- 
terials, but, sometimes, deficient in details, from the nature of the 
work, which does not admit of long descriptions. The history of a 
substance is always followed by the indication of its medical vir- 
tues, its dose and its incompatibles, whenever it is necessary. 
Salts are arranged under their acids, as acetates, carbonates, sul- 
phates, &c, instead of their bases. Pharmaceutical compounds are 
placed in classes, as cerates, plasters, syrups, tinctures, &c, the 
several constituent drugs being inscribed under their respective 
heads. The information contained in this department of the work 
is exceedingly diversified. It is, at once, a treatise of materia med- 
ica, of practical pharmacy, and a general formulary. A few ill 
executed woodcuts are interspersed through these pages. The ar- 
ticles Extracts, Mineral waters, Leeches, Syrups, among others 
are pretty fully treated. 
All the simple articles of any importance have the synonyms 
in several foreign languages, immediately under their scientific 
name, and a polyglot table at the back of the work affords a ready 
means for foreigners to consult the book. 
The third part of the Officine is devoted to Legal Pharmacy. It 
contains, 1st, the laws, decrees, ordinances and police regulations 
relative to Pharmacy in France. 2d, A treatise on Toxicology, 
including a classification of the poisons ; an indication of the 
symptoms produced by their introduction into the system ; the 
means calculated to counteract their deleterious effects, and finally 
the reagents by which their character can be detected. 3d, It 
contains also a pharmaceutical essay by which the pharmaceutist 
may be enabled to test the purity of pharmaceutical products, and 
ascertain the falsification of the simple and compound medicines, 
