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 principa pharmaceutical instruments. Being an improvement upon the New dispensatory of Dr. Lewis.

People / Organizations

• William Lewis (Author)

Imprint

Philadelphia: Printed by T. Dobson, at the stone-house, no. 41, in Second-Street, M,DCC,XCI. [1791]

Publication year

1791-1791

ESTC No.

W31805

Grub Street ID

342243

Description

xxxii,[1],34-656p., [6]leaves of plates : ill. ; 8⁰

Note

Dedicated to Sir George Baker by the editor, Andrew Duncan.

Error in paging: p. 436 misnumbered 536.

Uncontrolled note

Signatures: [A]? B-2S?