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 srticle, so far as they are warranted by experience and observation : III. the preparations and compositions of the new London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeias; 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.
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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 srticle, so far as they are warranted by experience and observation : III. the preparations and compositions of the new London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeias; 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. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Dublin : Printed by William Colles, in Dame-Street, MDCCLXXXII [1782]

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