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 pharmacopœias; with some of 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:
- 1799
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London : printed for F. Wingrave (successor to Mr. Nourse), in the Strand; J. Johnson, St. Paul's-Church-Yard; G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row; and W.J. and J. Richardson, Royal Exchange, 1799.
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viii,[8],606,[42]p. ; 80.
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The sixth edition, carefully revised; in which are inserted the various improvements ..
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ESTC T93254
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