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 W. Lewis, M. B. F. R. S. The Fifth Edition, carefully Revised and Improved.

People / Organizations

• William Lewis (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for C. Nourse, in the Strand, MDCCLXXXV. [1785]

Publication year

1785-1785

ESTC No.

T93253

Grub Street ID

312955

Description

x,[6],688p. ; 8⁰