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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ...them. But the Pharmacopoeiae in common use are full of anomalies and deviations from what seem to be their own principles. For example, according to the laws of the nomenclature of pharmacy, when a pharmaceutic preparation has only a single base, we are told that its name should be made-up of the name of the pharmaceutic form, followed by the name of the base in the genitive case and nothing else. But how does usage conform to this law? We-find Tinctura Opii Acetata as the name of a simple or noncomposite preparation of Opium, because the menstruum is Vinegar twelve fluidounces and ofilciual spirit eight fiuidounces. As appears to me, there is room only for the question whether this preparation is an Acetum Opii or a Tinctura Opii; and as the Vinegar predominates over the ofiicinal Spirit in the menstruum, I think it should rather be called an Acetum. When the menstruum is compound, I should suppose that the predominating ingredient of it should give the name. We find Tinctura Valerianaa Ammoniata applied to a Tincture containing nothing but root of Valerian, as I suppose, because the menstruum is Spiritus Ammoniml 01' Spiritus Hydrogenii Ammidi. We find also Tinctura Guaiaci Ammoniata applied to a Tincture containing nothing but the resin Guaiacum, because, as I suppose, the menstruum is Spiriflls Ammonias or Spiritus Hydrogenii Ammidi. Subsequently We find the same form of language employed to denote quite a lifl'ei-ent thing, viz. to denote the secondary base in a Tincture with two bases, or in other words, a Compound Tincture formerly called an Elixir, as Tinctura Opii Gamphorata, or still more incorrectly Tinctura Camphorm Opiata. Now Camphorata and Opiata KB applied to what is really Tinctura Opii composita, are not analOgous...
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William Tully was born on November 18, 1785 at Saybrook Point, Connecticut. He was the only child of Col. William Tully, an officer of the Revolution, who married Eunice (Tully), his cousin. He was a descendant of John Tully of Horley, Surrey County, England, whose widow came with her son and daughter to Saybrook about 1647.
As a boy Tully attended the district school and was later prepared for college by the Rev. Frederick W. Hotchkiss, of Saybrook.
Entering Yale in 1802, he graduated in 1806.
In the fall of 1808 he attended the medical school of Dartmouth under Dr. Nathan Smith, 1762-1829.
Returning to Saybrook in 1810, he studied for a time with Dr. Samuel Carter. In March of this year he entered the office of Dr. Eli Ives of New Haven, professor of materia medica at Yale. In October 1810 Tully was licensed by the Connecticut Medical Society.
In 1807 Yale conferred the degree of A. M. on him and in 1819 the honorary degree of M. D.
After graduation he taught at school for a short time in his native town.
In the spring of 1807 he began the study of medicine with Dr. Mason F. Cogswell of Hartford.
In May 1811 he began to practise medicine in Enfield, Connecticut.
For the next few years he changed his location so rapidly that a biographer refers to him as "The Peregrinating Dr. William Tully".
In March of 1813 he removed to Milford, Connecticut Two years later he went to Cromwell, Connecticut, and in September 1818, to Middletown.
In the latter place he became an intimate friend of Dr. Thomas Miner, a physician and scholar of considerable repute, who is said to have had a noteworthy influence on Tully's subsequent literary career.
In 1808 he published an article, "On the Ergot of Rye, " in the American Journal of Science (April 1820), and another, "Scutellaria Laterifolia, " in the Middlesex Gazette (Nov. 30, 1820). An article by him entitled "Diversity of the Two Sorts of Datura Found in the United States" appeared in the former journal in 1823, and in this same year, with Dr. Thomas Miner, he published Essays on Fevers.
In June 1822 Tully removed to East Hartford and in July 1824 was appointed president and professor of theory and practice and medical jurisprudence in the Vermont Academy of Medicine, at Castleton. When this school was reorganized in 1830 he retired as president but continued for eight years as professor of materia medica and therapeutics.
In January 1826 he removed to Albany, N. Y. , where he practised as a colleague of Dr. Alden March, but continued his lectures at Castleton.
In 1828 he wrote "An Essay, Pharmacological and Therapeutical, on Sanguinaria-Canadensis, " which appeared in the American Medical Recorder (January, April 1828).
Appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics at Yale in 1829, he removed to New Haven and taught there as well as at Castleton. In collaboration with Ives and M. C. Leavenworth, he published Catalogue of the Phenogamous Plants and the Ferns Growing without Cultivation, within Five Miles of Yale College (1831).
Other papers, on sanguinaria, chlorite of potassa, congestion, narcotine and sulphate of morphine, were prepared by him during this period. He is said to have made the first half ounce of quinine sulphate from cinchona bark produced in the United States.
In August 1842, as a result of strained relations with his colleagues, he resigned his chair at Yale and in 1851 removed to Springfield, Massachussets Here was published his compendious work of more than 1, 500 pages, Materia Medica, or, Pharmacology and Therapeutics (2 vols. , 1857 - 58). In this work appears his modification of the well-known Dover's powder which later became known as Tully's powder.
Tully died in Springfield and was buried in the Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven.
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His eminence in his day is attested by the large number of medical and scientific societies to which he belonged.
In appearance he was tall and square-shouldered, with large head and prominent eyes. As a lecturer "he spoke distinctly and without gesticulation, reading from his manuscript in a loud, almost stentorian voice, with an uniform and slightly nasal tone, and assured air".
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According to his successor at Yale, he was "doubtless the most learned and thoroughly scientific physician of New England". "As a teacher he stimulated scientific zeal in his students, as a physician he studied his patients carefully and was a good diagnostician".
On January 5, 1813, he married Mary, daughter of the Rev. Elam Potter.
He had eleven children, but of these only a son and two daughters survived him.
Hew as an officer of the Revolution.
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