The new dispensatory : containing, I. The elements of pharmacy. 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. The preparations and compositions of the new London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeas; with such of the old ones as are kept in the shops; the most celebrated foreign medicines; the most useful of those directed in the hospitals; sundry elegant extemporaneous forms, &c. 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 / by W. Lewis, M. B. F. R. S.

  • Lewis, William, 1708-1781.
Date:
1781
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Credit: The new dispensatory : containing, I. The elements of pharmacy. 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. The preparations and compositions of the new London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeas; with such of the old ones as are kept in the shops; the most celebrated foreign medicines; the most useful of those directed in the hospitals; sundry elegant extemporaneous forms, &c. 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 / by W. Lewis, M. B. F. R. S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    may enable every apothecary to prepare, as it is his duty to do, all his own medicines. The tables, inferted in a former edition, were fo well received, that the other difpenfatories have copied them entire. One of thefe tables, however, that of fpecific gravities, appears, on re-examining it, to be exceptionable : great part of it was drawn from Dr. Friend's experiments, in his Praleciiones chymicce, in which the numbers, by fome accident, have been fo faultily fet down, that no dependence can be had upon them \ and few other hydroftatical experiments have been made on medicinal fub- ftances or their preparations. I have therefore now thrown out that table, but preferved all that was valuable in it, reduced to a more ufeful form, in the table of the weights of certain meafures of dif- ferent fluids. I have likewife added feveral new ones, greatly enlarged the others, fo as to render them of more utility in practice, and diftributed them in the different parts of the work to which they belong. The facts on which they are built, where no authority is mentioned, are in all cafes (except only in the above-mentioned table of weights) from my own experience. The author is fufficiently fenfible, that there are ftill many imperfections in this performance ; but hopes it will appear, that he has every where con- fulted the dignity of the art, the eafe and advantage of the operator, and the health of the patient. CON-