The American new dispensatory : Containing general principles of pharmaceutic chemistry; chemical analysis of the articles of materia medica; pharmaceutic operations; materia medica, including several new and valuable articles, the production of the United States; preparations and compositions. With an appendix, containing an account of mineral waters; medical prescriptions; the nature and medical uses of the gases; medical electricity; galvanism; an abridgment of Dr. Currie's reports on the use of water; the cultivation of the poppy plant, and the method of preparing opium ... The whole compiled from the most approved authors, both European and American.

  • Thacher, James, 1754-1844.
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The American new dispensatory : Containing general principles of pharmaceutic chemistry; chemical analysis of the articles of materia medica; pharmaceutic operations; materia medica, including several new and valuable articles, the production of the United States; preparations and compositions. With an appendix, containing an account of mineral waters; medical prescriptions; the nature and medical uses of the gases; medical electricity; galvanism; an abridgment of Dr. Currie's reports on the use of water; the cultivation of the poppy plant, and the method of preparing opium ... The whole compiled from the most approved authors, both European and American. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Boston : Published by Thomas B. Wait and Co. [etc.] T. B. Wait and Co., printers, [1813]

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xxvii pages, [25]-732 pages : 22 cm

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2d ed.

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"Preface to the second edition" is dated Jan. 1, 1813
"Table of synonymes of the medicines, simple and compound, of the pharmacopoeias of London, Dublin, and Edinburgh": p. [652]-685
"A glossary of botanical terms": p. [689]-694
First published in Boston in 1810
Film 633 reel 93 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 93, no. 1878).

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Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1878

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1959. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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