The Edinburgh new dispensatory: containing, I. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. II. The materia medica; or, an account of the different substances employed in medicine. III. The pharmaceutical preparations and medicinal compositions of the latest editions of the London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeias. With the additions of the most approved formulae, from the best foreign pharmacopoeias. The whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations; and enriched with the latest discoveries in natural history, chemistry, and medicine; with new tables of elective attractions, of antimonial and mercurial preparations, &c. And several copperplates of the most convenient furnaces, and principal pharmaceutical instruments. Being an improvement of the New dispensatory by Dr. Lewis.

People / Organizations

• William Lewis (Author)

Imprint

Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson, at the stone-house, no. 41, South Second-Street, M,DCC,XCVI. [1796]

Publication year

1796-1796

ESTC No.

W31806

Grub Street ID

342244

Description

xxvii,[1],622,[2]p., III [i.e., 6]leaves of plates (2folded) ; 8⁰

Note

Dedicated to Joseph Black by the editor, John Rotheram.

Errors in paging: p. x-xi, 272, 397, 423-424, 543-544 misnumbered viii-ix, 372, 379, 424-423, 544-545.

Plate [3] signed: [Robert] Scot & [Samuel] Allardice.

Bookseller's advertisements, p. [623-624].

Uncontrolled note

Signatures: [A]? B? C? D-D? G? I? L-4I?