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Excerpt from Pharmaceutical Preparations: Elixirs, Their History, Formulae, and Methods of Preparation With a Résumé of Unofficinal Elixirs From the Days of Paracelsus Were pharmacists united in opposition to elixirs, and sufficiently inde pendent to warrant them in saying that they are unnecessary preparations, and that they would not manufacture or dispense them; or could pharma cists so inuence and control physicians as to positively prevent them from prescribing elixirs; or, were the past numbers of all our pharmaceutical journals possessed by, or readily accessible to, each and every pharma cist in the country - there would then be no necessity for, nor utility in, the publication of a work upon elixirs and the methods of preparing them. At the present time there undoubtedly exists a demand for this class of preparations, and, in order to improve, as well as retain, their le gitimate trade, our pharmacists are, in a measure, compelled to dispense them, as they do not desire to displease their medical patrons by any ih dications of what might be considered as offensive dictation. Such being the case, and, as a large number of the pharmacists Of this country are not possessors of the past numbers of pharmaceutical journals, we have been induced to prepare this little work. 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.