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Excerpt from A Dictionary Terms
Believing that its republication in this country would be useful, the Editor consented to revise and adapt it to the wants of the American practitioner. With this view he has added, not only the terms re cently introduced, but also the names of our native medicinal plants, the formulae for the o?ieinal preparations, &c., - and has made the work conform with the latest edition of the Pharmacopoeia of the United States. For the greater convenience of reference, he has also inserted in the body of the work most of the interesting articles placed by the author in an Appendix; and also the Terms contained in the Sup plemcnfary List to the last London edition, with the exception of those under the first few letters of the alphabet, which have been appended in a separate list. To accommodate these additions, not only has the size of the page been materially enlarged, but also the number of pages has been increased by more than one hundred.
The Editor has availed himself of very many recent sources of information in preparing his additions, among which he would especially mention the Expository Lexicon, by dr. R. G. Mayne; Medical Bo tany, by the late dr. R. E. Griffith the recent works of carpenter, paget, owen, and jones and sieveking; and the admirable United Slates' Dispensatory of Professors wood and bache.
The aim of the Editor has been to render the work more complete.
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