Royal Pharmacopoea

FIGURE 6. Chemical symbols from The Royal Pharmacopoea by Moses Charas (London, 1678). 

This is a full-text electronic version of this standard directory of pharmaceuticals and ancillary substances (Martindale The Extra Pharmacopoea). Contains reviews, physical/chemical properties, adverse reactions, toxicity, uses, actions, dosages, pharmaceutical properties, contraindications, interactions, and trade and generic nomenclature. Produced by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. (Data-Star available on CD-ROM from RPSGB.)... 

This table of chemical symbols (see Figure 6) is found in the book titled The Roy-al Pharmacopoea, Galenical and Chymical, According to the Practice of the Most Eminent and Learned Physitians of France, and Published with their Several Approbations, the English edition published in 1678. The author, Moses Charas, fled religious persecution in France to join the enlightened intellectual environment in the England of Charles 11, who chartered the Royal Society. Its membership included Robert Boyle, Robert Hooke, and Isaac Newton. 

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