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Lidén Number 58
Respondent: Lars Hiortzberg (1727-1789)
Title: ... de Methodo investigandi Vires Medicamentorum chemica, ...
Date of Defense: 2 October 1754
Paginations: [iii], [1], 5-16
Lidén Title: Methodus investigandi vires medicamentorum chemica.
Soulsby Title: Vir. med.
Drake Title: Methodo Investigandi Vires Medicamentorum Chemica.
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Abstract: A pharmacological dissertation on the chemical method of examining pharmaceutical preparations to analyze their odors, flavors and chemical compositions. The work points out that poisonous plants may possess toxic qualities in some parts and not in others and that careful chemical study of all parts of a plant is essential to a reliable knowledge of its pharmaceutical nature.