Moses Charras, The Royal Pharmacopœea (1678)
Date
1678
Author
Lexicon title
Chymicall Characters
Book title
The Royal Pharmacopœea, Galenical and Chymical, According to the Practice Of the Most Eminent and Learned Physitians of France, And Publish'd with their several Approbations
Publication place
London
Publisher
John Starkey and Moses Pitt
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- chemistry
- herbal
- medicine
Summary
The page of "Chymicall Characters" lists the names of 66 special characters for metals, minerals, chemicals, and the four elements, such as "Fire Δ". The text has also several definitions, such as of pharmacy (p. 1).
Language
headwords: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: PHARMACY is the second part of that part of Physick that attends the Cure of Diseases, and teaches the Choice, Preparation and Mixture of Medicaments. This Definition might suffice, did we not know of any other Pharmacy then that of the Ancients, which is call'd Galenic. But in regard the Chymical Pharmacy of the Moderns has many perfections that are peculiar to it, and that thereby the benefit of the Galenic is much improv'd, it deserves to have a particular Definition. I will say then, without swerving from the first general Definition, that Chymical Phar|macy ought to be defin'd to be, An Art which teaches us to dissolve bodies, and by the same means to divide and know the parts of which they are compos'd, to the end we may separate the bad, and preserve the good, and unite them again when occasion requires.
sample: PHARMACY is the second part of that part of Physick that attends the Cure of Diseases, and teaches the Choice, Preparation and Mixture of Medicaments. This Definition might suffice, did we not know of any other Pharmacy then that of the Ancients, which is call'd Galenic. But in regard the Chymical Pharmacy of the Moderns has many perfections that are peculiar to it, and that thereby the benefit of the Galenic is much improv'd, it deserves to have a particular Definition. I will say then, without swerving from the first general Definition, that Chymical Phar|macy ought to be defin'd to be, An Art which teaches us to dissolve bodies, and by the same means to divide and know the parts of which they are compos'd, to the end we may separate the bad, and preserve the good, and unite them again when occasion requires.
Alston
XVII.I.329
Wing
C2040
