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gray's supplement to the pharmacopoeia. 
REVIEW. 
ART. v.— GRAY'S SUPPLEMENT TO THE PHARMACOPCEIA ; 
BEING A CONCISE BUT COMPREHENSIVE DISPENSATORY 
AND MANUAL OF FACTS AND FORMULA FOR THE CHE- 
MIST AND DRUGGIST, AND MEDICAL PRACTITIONER. 
ENTIRELY RE-WRITTEN, RE-ARRANGED, AND CON- 
SIDERABLY ENLARGED. By Theophilus Redwood, Professor 
of Pharmacy to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. 
London. Longman & Co. &c. 1847. pp. 1118. 
Those who are acquainted with the "Supplement" of 
Mr. Gray, as published in 1836, and anterior, will remem- 
ber it as a curious mixture of important pliarmaceiitical facts, 
and rubbish, with but few claims to a regular treatise on 
pharmacy. The object of the writer was apparently to bring 
before his readers the greatest number of formulae and state- 
ments, without much care as to their value or truth ; in many 
giving recipes for adulterations, and thus encouraging the 
already existing proneness to sophisticate medicines. 
The "Supplement,'' nevertheless, proved a valuable 
work of rtfference ta the dispensing apothecary, from its 
being a kind of encyclopedia of recipes, synonyms, plants, 
etc., which the very copious index presented in a lucid ar- 
rangement, and doubtless was completely adapted to the 
state of pharmacy in England at the time it was written. 
With a knowledge of all this, it was with pleasure that 
we read the announcement of a new edition, under the 
auspices of Mr. Redwood, and flattered ourselves that he 
would model the work into a regular treatise on pharmacy, 
as well as prune it of the trashy portion. We have there- 
fore, with some regret, found that the present work presents 
no claims to a scientific compend, but retains the general 
