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 Administration of Medicines whose strengths were unknown; and this has greatly diminished the Business of the Apothecaries: but who can blame them for compounding their Medicine so very different, when they have no Established Rule for a Guide; and there are such a variety of methods prescribed in the Different Dispensatories now in use.

A great variety of medicines are differently compounded; but as a Proof of my Assertions at this time, I shall only exhibit the different prescriptions for compounding but one medicine, viz. the Liquid Laudanum, which may be seen in the following Dispensatories, as,

1. The London Dispensatory.
 * ℞ Gum Opii purify pun 	- ʒx
 * Spirit vin tenu 	- ?
 * Digere per Dies Deum, et cola.

2. The Edenburgh Dispensatory
 * ℞ Opium, 		- ℥ij
 * Aq. Cin. Spt. 	- ?
 * Digere per Dies Quatuor, et cola.

3. Quinsey's Dispensatory
 * ℞ Gum Opii crud. 	- ℥ij
 * Croc. Anglican.	- ℥j
 * Aq. Aromat. vel cin.	- ℥?
 * Spt. Vin gallic.	- ℥x
 * Digere leni calore, et cola.

4. James's Dispensatory
 * ℞ Gum Opii crud.	- ℥ij
 * Croc Anglican.	- ℥j
 * Aq. Aromat. vel cin.	- ℥xx
 * Digere leni calore, et cola.

5. Brookes's Dispensatory
 * ℞ Gum Opii,		- ℥ij
 * Aq. Aromat.		- ℥xx
 * Digere leni calore, etc.

Thus we may see by preceeding