The American new dispensatory. Containing general principles of pharmaceutick chemistry, chemical analysis of the articles of materia medica, pharmaceutick operations ... / [James Thacher].

  • Thacher, James, 1754-1844.
Date:
1821
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    Besides the judicious selection and arrangement which pervades the book, it is recommended to our countrymen in a special manner by the at- tention he has paid to the diseases with which they are afflicted, and the indigenous remedies which have been employed for their relief. Such additions of articles are peculiarly interesting. Our native plants possess virtues which it has been too fashionable to overlook. Of this ] am more convinced as my knowledge of them increases. ‘The delineation. he has made of them constitutes the most beautiful feature in his picture of the materia medica. , ; SAMUEL L. MITCHELL. New York, 19th December, 1817. ee By DAVID HOSACK, M.D. F.R.S. , Professor of ‘the Theory and Practice of Physick in the University of New York: And By JOHN W. FRANCIS, M.D. Professor of the Institutes of Medicine. The Dispensatory of Dr. Thacher has for some time been before the publick, and the rapid sale it has experienced affords ample evidence of its intrinsick merits. On the vegetable materia medica of this country it contains a larger amount of information than any preceding work ; and the author has consulted equally his own reputation and the benefit of his readers, in order to render his volume of real practical utility. He has been most assiduous in the collection of his materials, and seldom trusted. to the theories of others when unsupported by experience : and while he is parsimonious of opinions, he deals largely in facts. On these, as well as on other accounts, his American Dispensatory will be found a valuable repository of knowledge to the practitioners of the United States. The third edition is, with commendable industry, revised and improved. DAVID HOSACK. _. New York, December, 1817. JOHN W. FRANCIS. By LYMAN SPALDING, M.D. late President in the University of the State of New York, for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Western District. I have made The American New Dispensatory, which contains all our well known native medicines, my book of reference since its first publica- tion ; because I found it superiour to any European Dispensatory, and a work which would assist in giving us a national character. New York, December 15, 1817. LYMAN SPALDING. By WRIGHT POST, M.D. Professor of Anatomy in the University of ' New York. T have perused with great satisfaction the third edition of Dr. Thacher’s Dispensatory, and feel much pleasure in recommending it to publick notice. 1 cannot but believe that the medical profession in this country will esteem it an acceptable present, and feel under great obligations to the author for the faithful and judicious manner in which the work is executed. New York, December 22, 1817. WRIGHT POST.