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 some of 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

People / Organizations

• William Lewis (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for F. Wingrave (successor to Mr. Nourse), in the Strand; J. Johnson, St. Paul's-Church-Yard; G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row; and W.J. and J. Richardson, Royal Exchange, 1799. The sixth edition, carefully revised; in which are inserted the various improvements that have occurred in medicine, from the period of its last publication.; ..

Publication year

1799

ESTC No.

T93254

Grub Street ID

312956

Description

viii, [8], 606, [42] p. ; 8°.

Note

With an index.