First published in 1874 and reissued here in its second edition of 1879, this substantial work provides information on the vegetable material medica used by Victorian pharmacists, principally in Britain but also in India. Arranging the entries according to the type of plant from which each drug is derived, Daniel Hanbury (1825 75) and Friedrich August Fluckiger (1828 94) give a description of each drug as well as covering its botanical origin and history, including its first medicinal application. They also discuss chemical composition, referring to the investigations of other scientists as well as their own, and comment on microscopic structure. Intending to create a broad reference work rather than an encyclopaedia, the authors chose not to focus on the therapeutic applications of the drugs. In many instances, however, they give some information on how the plant products are used. The appendix provides short biographical and bibliographical notes."

Es fehlt in der pharmaceutischen Literatur keineswegs an Bearbeitungen der Waarenkunde oder Pharmacognosie, welche diese auf die Stufe wissenschaftlicher Erkenntniss heben. In der Natur der Sache liegt es aber, dass selbst die gelungenste Dar- stellung dieses Faches nicht sowohl den allseitig befriedigenden Eindruck eines vollendeten ganz in sich abgeschlossenen Kunst- werkes hervorbringen kann als vielmehr einer geschickt zu- sammengefugten Mosaik vergleichbar ist. Die Steine dieses Baues einzeln herauszunehmen, bei Lichte zu besehen, Ecken und Kanten abzuschleifen, die bedeutungsvollen scharfer zuzu- spitzen, das ist der Versuch, den diese Schrift wagen wollte. Wo sich ergab, dass zum wissenschaftlichen Aufbau der Phar- macognosie noch da und dort ein Stein oder Steinchen fehlte oder nicht an gehoeriger Stelle eingefugt war, da gingen die fol- genden Zeilen nach Abhulfe aus. Sollte das Wagniss nicht ganz misslungen sein, so mussten die "Grundlagen" nach des Ver- fassers Ansicht und Absicht dem Anfanger die Hand reichen und ihn anregen zu recht erfolgreichem Studium unseres Faches, ja sogar dem Kundigem den Genuss reichen Besitzes erhoehen. Ein Wagniss freilich sind diese "Grundlagen" zu nennen. Nach mehrern Seiten hin wollen sie festen Grund und Boden bieten. Sehr gerne aber hatte der Verfasser diese Aufgabe be- IV Vorwort. rufeneren Handen uberlassen; er hatte z. B. gewunscht, den bo- tanischen Theil aus der Feder eines unserer Meister der Botanik hervorgehen zu sehen, den chemischen aus dem Laboratorium eines jener Chemiker, welche uber die Anziehungskrafte der Molekein in genialer Weise verfugen.

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