old term denoting that part of the chemical art which treats of the preparation of medicines; by way of distinction from that chemistry which is wholly employed about the transmutation of metals by means of the philosopher's stone; this being called spagirico-chemistry.

Pharmacology, is a treatise of medicines, or the art of preparing them, judging of them, &c.

Pharmacopoeia (from φαρμακευομαι remedy, and ποιεῖν 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 pharmacopoeias, as those of Bau-deron, Quercetan, Zwelfer, Charas, Bates, Salmon, Lemery, Lewis, &c. But the Edinburgh, London, and Dublin pharmacopoeias, are chiefly consulted and followed in Britain in the present day.