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 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 William Lewis, M. B. F. R. S.

Date:

M.DCC.LXVIII. [1768]