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.
Date:
MDCCLXXXII [1782]
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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 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Chap. III. Of the pharmaceutical operatiom p. 39 Sed. i. Solution ib. Tables of the folubility of fait i 39—41 Se<5t. ii. Extraction 43 Se<a. iii. Depuration 45 Sea. iv. Cryjlallization 46 Se6t. V. Precipitation 47 Sea. vi. Evaporation 48 Sea. vii. Di/lillation 49 Sea. viii. Sublimation 51 Sea. ix. Exprejfion . 52 Sea. X. Exficcation ib. Sea. xi. Comminution 53 Sea. xii. /^«/^« 55 Sea.xiii. Calcination, &Co 56 PART IL The Materia Medica» General ohfervatiom on the materia medica 59 Acids, 61 Abforbent earths 6z Tables of the pozuers of different ahforhents 63 bidiffoluble earths 64 Glutinous and mucilaginous fubf antes .. 66 Vnciuous and oily fubjiances 67 Jfringents ib. Sweets 68 Acrids 6g Jromatlcs ib. Bitters 70 Emetics and cathartics ib. Juoirnt of the particular fvnples,^ ranged in alphabetic order 71 General titles including fever at fmples 249 <y //;,? collection and prefervation of fimples 251 PART III. A fyflem of pharmaceutical preparations, officinal and extemporaneous. Chap. T. The morefwipk preparations . 255 Chap.