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The new dispensatory: containing I. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. II. The materia medica: or, An Account of the Substances employed in Medicine; with the Virtues and Uses of each Article, so far as they are warranted by Experience and Observation. III. Pharmaceutical Preparations. IV. Medicinal Compositions. The Two Latier Parts Comprehending The Preparations and Compositions of the Last London and Edinburgh Pharmacopoeias, with such of the old ones as are kept in the Shops; Also The most celebrated Foreign Medicines; the most useful of those directed in the Hospitals; and sundry elegant Extemporaneous Forms: Digested In such a Method as to compose a Regular System of Pharmacy; With Remarks on their Preparation and Uses; the Means of distinguishing Adulterations; of performing the more difficult and dangerous Processes with ease and Safety, &c. The whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations. Being an attempt to collect and apply the later discoveries to the dispensatory published by W. Lewis, M. B. F. R. S. With new tables of Elective Attractions, Single and Double; of Antimony, Mercury, &c. and copperplates of pharmaceutical instruments. By gentlemen of the faculty at Edinburgh.