The Edinburgh new dispensatory ... / containing I. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. II. The materia medica; or, an account of the natural history, qualities, operations and uses, of the different substances employed in medicine. III. The pharmaceutical preparations and medicinal compositions of the new editions of the London (1788) and Edinburgh (1783) pharmacopoeias; with explanatory, critical, and practical observations on each: together with the addition of those formulae, from the best foreign pharmacopoeias, which are held in highest esteem in other parts of Europe. The whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations, and enriched by the latest discoveries in natural history, chemistry, and medicine; With new tables of elective attractions, of antimony, of mercury, &c. and copperplates of the most convenient furnaces, and principal pharmaceutical instruments. Being an improvement upon the New dispensatory of Dr. Lewis.

  • Lewis, William, 1708-1781.
Date:
1791
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Publication/Creation

Philadelphia : Printed by T. Dobson, 1791.

Physical description

656 pages, 6 engr. plates (some folded) ; (8vo)

Edition

A new edition; with many alterations /

References note

Austin 1144
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1144
ESTC W31805
Evans, 23503
Rink, E. Technical Americana, 639

Notes

Edited by Andrew Duncan.
Copy 1 Note: Inscribed on title-page: D. Fairchild.

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