Excerpt from The Pocket Formulary and Synopsis of the British and Foreign Pharmacopoeias: Comprising Standard and Approved Formulae for the Preparations and Compounds Employed in Medical Practice Save when retained for purposes of comparison, or when not supplanted by more modern versions, the formula of the London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and previous British pharma copaias have been omitted. Care, however, has been taken to preserve the value of the book as one of reference, by retaining all the older and time-honoured matter. The list of synonyms has been revised and considerably added to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.