Endeavor has been made to extend full credit in the text by means of abbreviations, most of which are self-explanatory. The following selective list may assist some readers:
| A. J. P. | American Journal of Pharmacy. |
| A. P. A. | American Pharmaceutical Association. |
| A. P. A. Proc. | American Pharmaceutical Association Proceedings. |
| Am. Hom. Pharm. | American Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia. |
| Amer. Hom. | American Homoeopathist. |
| Amer. Med. Plants | Millspaugh's American Medicinal Plants. |
| Ann. de Chim. et Pharm. | Annales de Chimie et de Pharmacie. |
| Ann. der Chem. and Pharm. | Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie (Liebig's Annalen). |
| Arch. der Pharm. | Archiv der Pharmacie. |
| Attfield | Attfield's Chemistry. |
| Av. | Avoirdupois. |
| B. | Bigelow's Vegetable Materia Medica and American Medical Botany. |
| B. A. A. S. | British Association for the Advancement of Science. |
| Bar. | Barton's Vegetable Materia Medica of the United States. |
| Ber. d. d. Chem. Ges. | Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft. |
| Bot. Reg. | Botanical Register. |
| Br. | British Pharmacopoeia. |
| Br. Phar. | British Pharmacopoeia. |
| Buchner's Rep. | Buchner's Repertorium für die Pharmacie. |
| Buchner's Neues Repert. | Buchner's Neues Repertorium für Pharmacie. |
| C. | Christison's Dispensatory. |
| ° C. | Degree Centigrade. |
| Cc. | Cubic Centimeter. |
| Cm. | Centimeter. |
| Chem. Centralbl. | Chemisches Centralblatt. |
| Chem. Ztg. | Chemiker Zeitung. |
| Coblentz | Coblentz's Newer Remedies. |
| Com. Dict. of Inorganic Solubilities | A. M. Comey Dictionary of Inorganic Solubilities, 1896. |
| Compt. Rend. | Comptes Rendus. |
| Coxe | Coxe's Dispensatory. |
| D | David Don, Linnaean Transactions and Philosophical Magazine |
| D. and M. of N. A. | Lloyd's Drugs and Medicines of North America. |
| Dub. | Dublin Pharmacopoeia. |
| Dymock | Dymock's Vegetable Materia Medica of Western India. |
| E. & V. | Edwards and Vavasseur, Manual of Materia Medica, tr. by Tongo and Durand. |
| Ed. | Edinburgh Dispensatory. |
| Ed. Med. Jour. | Edinburgh Medical Journal. |
| Ed. Duncan | Duncan's Edinburgh Dispensatory, 1830. |
| Ed. E. M. f. | Editorial, Eclectic Medical Journal. |
| ° F. | Degree Fahrenheit. |
| F. Sylv. | Michaux's North American Sylva. |
| Foltz | Dr. Kent O. Foltz in Webster's Dynamical Therapeutics. |
| G. | Gray's Botany of the Northern States. |
| Gm. | Gramme. |
| Gen. | Genesis (Bible). |
| Ger. Pharm. | German Pharmacopoeia. |
| Imp. | Imperial measure. |
| Jahresb. der Pharm. | Jahresbericht der Pharmacie. |
| Jour. de Chim. MM. | Journal de Chimie Médicale de Pharmacie et de Toxicologie. |
| Jour. de Pharm. | Journal de Pharmacie et de Chimie. |
| K. | Prof. John King, M. D. |
| L. | Lindley's Medical Flora. |
| Lieb. Annal. | Liebig's Annalen (Ann. d. Chem. and Pharm.). |
| Locke | Locke's Syllabus of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. By Felter. |
| Lond. | London Pharmacopoeia. |
| Lond. Disp. | Thomson's London Dispensatory. |
| Man. of Bot. | Eaton's _Manual of Botany. |
| Mat. Med. Western India | Dymock's Vegetable Materia Medica of Western India. |
| Matt. | Matthew (Bible). |
| Med. Flora | Rafinesque's Medical Flora. |
| Mm. | Millimeter. |
| N. F. | National Formulary. |
| Nat. Form. | National Formulary. |
| Nat. Ord. | Natural Order. |
| P. | Pareira's Materia Medica and Therapeutics. |
| P. J. Tr. | Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions (British). |
| P. J. Proc. | Pharmaceutical Journal and Proceedings. |
| Par. Cod. | Parisian Codex. |
| Pharm. 1880 | United States Pharmacopoeia of 1880. |
| Pharm. Centralh. | Pharmaceutische Centralhalle. |
| Pharm. India | Pharmacopoeia of India. |
| Pharm. Jour. | Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions (British). |
| Phil. Trans. | Philosophical Transactions. |
| R. | Rafinesque's Medical Flora. |
| R. & S. | Roscoe and Schorlemmer's Treatise on Chemistry. |
| Spec. Diag. | Scudder's Specific Diagnosis. |
| Spec. Med. | Scudder's Specific Medication. |
| Syllab. of Mat. Med. | Locke's Syllabus of Eclectic Materia Medica and Therapeutics. By Felter. |
| Sylva | Michaux's North American Sylva. |
| T. | Thomson's Chemistry of Organic Bodies and Inorganic Chemistry. |
| T. S. | Pharmacopoeial Test Solution. |
| Taylor | Taylor's Medical Jurisprudence. |
| U. S. | United States. |
| U. S. P. | United States Pharmacopoeia. |
| V. S. | Pharmacopoeial Volumetric Solution. |
| Var. | Variety (botany). |
| W | Wood's Class Book of Botany. |
| Webster | Webster's Dynamical Therapeutics. |
| Witt. | Wittstein's Practical Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Wittstein's Organic Constituents of Plants. |
| Wo. | Woodville's Medical Botany. |
