The Eclectic and general dispensatory : comprehending a system of pharmacy, materia medica, the formulae of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias, prescriptions of many eminent physicians, and receipts for the most common empirical medicines / collated from the best authorities, by an American physician.

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1827
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Credit: The Eclectic and general dispensatory : comprehending a system of pharmacy, materia medica, the formulae of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias, prescriptions of many eminent physicians, and receipts for the most common empirical medicines / collated from the best authorities, by an American physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    PUBLISHED BY TOWAR AND HOGAN, V No. 255 MARKET STREET, PHILADELPHIA. AN INQUIRY into the Nature and Treatment of Diabetes, Calculus, and other Affections of the Urinary Organs : with remarks on the importance of attending to the state of the Urine in organic Diseases of the Kidney and Bladder; and some practical rules for determining the nature of the disease from the sensible and chemical properties of the Secretion. By WILLIAM PROUT, M.D. F.R.S. From the second London edition, revised and much enlarged; with Notes and Additions, by S. Colhoun, M.D. Member of the American Philosophical Society, Corresponding Member of the Medical So- ciety in London, 8cc. i Speaking of the merits of Dr. Prout's book, the Editors of the London Medical Repository state, that We have just closed his foook, with an admiration at once of his scientific attainments and moderate pretensions. We have seldom perused a treatise, so free from the vice of book-making, or so little tinctured with the cant of medical hypothesis.—Lond. Med. Refios. In the course of our critical avocations, it has seldom occurred to us to rise from the perusal of a medical work with such favoura- able impressions as in the present instance: it is the work of aw accurate, as well as of an original writer.*—Johnson's Journal, '*