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 Pharmacopoeas; 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.

People / Organizations

• John Nourse ("printed for")
• William Lewis (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for J. Nourse, Bookseller in Ordinary to his Majesty, MDCCLXX. [1770]

Publication year

1770-1770

ESTC No.

N10015

Grub Street ID

23

Description

viii,[4],692p. ; 8⁰

Note

Anonymous. By William Lewis.

Uncontrolled note

With errata at the end of contents, p. [4]; another third edition, dated 1770, is lacking the errata at the end of contents