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The American dispensatory, containing the operations of pharmacy : together with the natural, chemical, pharmaceutical and medical history of the different substances employed in medicine : illustrated and explained, according to the principles of modern chemistry : the arrangement simplified, and the whole adapted to the practice of medicine and pharmacy in the United States : with sevearl copperplates exhibiting the new systems of chemical characters, and representing the most useful appratus / by John Redman Coxe, M.D.
- Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864.
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- 1814
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Credit: The American dispensatory, containing the operations of pharmacy : together with the natural, chemical, pharmaceutical and medical history of the different substances employed in medicine : illustrated and explained, according to the principles of modern chemistry : the arrangement simplified, and the whole adapted to the practice of medicine and pharmacy in the United States : with sevearl copperplates exhibiting the new systems of chemical characters, and representing the most useful appratus / by John Redman Coxe, M.D.
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Publication/Creation
Philadelphia : Published by Thomas Dobson ..., William Fry, printer, 1814.
Physical description
iv, 771 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 6 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm (8vo)
Edition
Third edition, much improved.
Notes
"He [the editor] has ... not failed to introduce a considerable addition to the Materia Medica, for which he is chiefly indebted to Dr. Thacher's ... Dispensatory" - "Preface to the third edition," p. [iii]
Contains the same tables at end as the 2d edition, with the addition of a "Table of names changed, and of some synonymes, in the last edition of the Edinburgh pharmacopoeia" (p. [730]-737)
The author statement follows the edition statement
Includes index
Film 633 reel 30 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 30, no. 554).
Publications note
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 554
Reproduction note
Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1959. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm
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- English
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