Authority Cited: London Dispensatory
Author name and dates: Henry Pemberton, tr. (1694 -1771) [BKG Note: an image of a Wedgwood medallion of Pemberton can be found at: JOSIAH WEDGWOOD, MEDALLIONS, AND PHYSICIANS, by HENRY H. FERTIG, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 28, No. 2 (MARCH-APRIL, 1954), pp. 127-139]
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: One cite from the London Dispensatory was identified in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No additional London Dispensatory cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. Pemberton's translation was the fifth London Pharmacopoeia. There appears to have been a rival publication in response to the title below, namely: "The New Dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in London, With copious and accurate indexes. Faithfully translated from the Latin of the Pharmacopoia Londinensis, publish'd by order of the King and Council" (also dated 1746), which lists the members of the Royal College of Physicians at a much earlier date. No similar quotation for prejudice was identified in the "New Dispensatory."]
Author name and dates: Henry Pemberton, tr. (1694 -1771) [BKG Note: an image of a Wedgwood medallion of Pemberton can be found at: JOSIAH WEDGWOOD, MEDALLIONS, AND PHYSICIANS, by HENRY H. FERTIG, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 28, No. 2 (MARCH-APRIL, 1954), pp. 127-139]
BKG Bio-tweet: Physician, mathematician, chemistry professor; friend of Wilson and Mead; Principia editor; book on Newton's philosophy
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: One cite from the London Dispensatory was identified in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No additional London Dispensatory cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. Pemberton's translation was the fifth London Pharmacopoeia. There appears to have been a rival publication in response to the title below, namely: "The New Dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in London, With copious and accurate indexes. Faithfully translated from the Latin of the Pharmacopoia Londinensis, publish'd by order of the King and Council" (also dated 1746), which lists the members of the Royal College of Physicians at a much earlier date. No similar quotation for prejudice was identified in the "New Dispensatory."]
- The Dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians, London, Translated into English with remarks, &c. by H. Pemberton, M.D., Professor of Physic in Gresham College and F. R. S., 1746, London, printed for T. Longman and T. Shewell at the Ship in Paternoster Row, and J. Norse at the Lamb, over against Katherine-Street in the Strand; prejudice (p.82) (Dict.: "To this is added a vinous bitter, warmer in the composition of its ingredients than the watry infusion; and, as gentian and lemon-peel make a bitter of so grateful a flavour, the only care required in this composition was to chuse such an addition as might not prejudice it. London Dispensatory." SJ also comments: "3. To injure; to hurt; to diminish; to impair; to be detrimental to. This sense, as in the noun, is often improperly extended to meanings that have no relation to the original sense; who can read with patience of an ingredient that prejudices a medicine?")