Southall’s Organic MATERIA MEDICA

The First Edition of Southalls Materia Medica was prepared in 1874 by the late William Southall F.L.S. and thirteen years later in 1887 a fourth and enlarged edition was published. This latter has for some time been out of print and the occasion of the preparation of a new edition was regarded as a favourable one for making some very considerable amplifications and alternations. The once almost universal system of classification according to Botanical origin has been abandoned that of placing together drugs of analagous form and physical character having been adopted in its stead. This method of classification may now be said to have received official sanction in this country inasmuch as it is made use of in the Calendar of the Pharmaceutical Society.