Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Orientation -- Part 2. Pharmaceutics -- Part 3. Pharmaceutical chemistry -- Part 4. Radioisotopes in pharmacy and medicine -- Part 5. Testing and analysis -- Part 6. Pharmaceutical and medicinal agents -- Part 7. Biological products -- Part 8. Pharmaceutical preparations and their manufacture -- Part 9. Pharmaceutical practice -- Index.

The rapid and substantial progress made in Pharmacy within the last decade has created a necessity for a work treating of the improved apparatus, the revised processes, and the recently introduced preparations of the age.
The vast advances made in theoretical and applied chemistry and physics have much to do with the development of pharmaceutical science, and these have been reflected in all the revised editions of the Pharmacopoeias which have been recently published. When the author was elected in 1874 to the chair of Theory and Practice of Pharmacy in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, the outlines of study which had been so carefully prepared for the classes by his eminent predecessors, Professor William Procter, Jr., and Professor Edward Parrish, were found to be not strictly in accord, either in their arrangement of the subjects or in their method of treatment. Desiring to preserve the distinctive characteristics of each, an effort was at once made to frame a system which should embody their valuable features, embrace new subjects, and still retain that harmony of plan and proper sequence which are absolutely essential to the success of any system.