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The Edinburgh new dispensatory: : containing I. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. II. The materia medica ... III. Pharmaceutical preparations. IV. Medicinal compositions : the two latter parts comprehending the preparations and compositions of the last London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeias , with such of the old ones as are kept in the shops ; : also ... those directed in the London hospitals, and in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh ; : together with the most esteemed foreign medicines ... : enriched by the introduction and application of the later discoveries in natural history, chemistry, and medicine ... : new tables of elective attractions ...; : and copperplates of chemical and pharmaceutical instruments / the whole being an improvement upon the New dispensatory of Dr Lewis by Gentlemen of the Faculty at Edinburgh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, William, 1708-1781.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dispensatories.
- Pharmacopoeias--Great Britain.
- Pharmacopoeias.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- iv-xxxii, 64, *65-*94, 65-720 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Printed for Charles Elliot, Edinburgh; and G.G.J. and J. Robinson, London, 1786.
- Notes:
- Caption-title: The new dispensatory.
- A revised version of Lewis's New dispensatory, edited by Charles Webster and Ralph Irving; cf. LC. Editors' preface, dated Nov. 1785, ascribes the Materia medica to one editor, the rest of the book to the other.
- Includes Lewis's undated preface.
- Includes indexes.
- Error in paging: page 679 misnumbered 677.
- OCLC:
- 17654129
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