PHARMACOPŒIA (from φάρμακον remedy, and ποιειν to make), means a dispensatory, or a treatise describing the preparations of the several kinds of medicines, with their uses, manner of application, &c.
We have various pharmacopœias, as those of Bauderon, Quercetian, Zwelfer, Charas, Bates, Salmon, Lemery,
who flourished about 125 years before Christ, and wrote some allegorical commentaries on the scripture, was the author of those traditions by an adherence to which the Pharisees were principally distinguished from other sects.
Pharmaco- Lemery, Lewis, &c. The latest and most in esteem
pola are the Edinburgh and London dispensaries. See
PHARMACY.