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Gregory's Powder.
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Dr. James Gregory.
Professor of Medicine in Edinburgh University, 1790-1821. Author of Conspectus Medicinæ Theoreticæ and inventor of Gregory's Powder.
(From a mezzotint, "after Raeburn," in the British Museum.)
The original of the Pulv. Rhei Co. of the British Pharmacopœia was a prescription very frequently given by Dr. James Gregory, of Edinburgh, in his time the most famous physician of that city. He died in 1822. This Dr. Gregory was Professor of Medicine in Edinburgh University, as his father was before him. His son
