The American new dispensatory. Containing general principles of pharmaceutic chemistry; pharmaceutic operations; chemical analysis of the articles of materia medica; materia medica, including several new and valuable articles, the production of the United States; preparations and compositions. With an appendix, containing medical prescriptions; the nature and medical uses of the gases; medical electricity; galvanism; an abridgment of Dr. Currie's reports on the use of water; the cultivation of the poppy plant, and the method of preparing opium ... The whole compiled from the most approved authors, both European and American ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thacher, James, 1754-1844.

Contributor:

Currie, James, 1756-1805

Massachusetts Medical Society.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

529 p. ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston, T. B. Wait and Co., 1810.

Notes:

"Dr. Thacher ... has adopted for the basis of his work the Pharmacopoeia of Massachusetts, lately published by the Medical Society." - "Recommendation. Report [dated Oct. 14, 1809] of a committee of the Massachusetts Medical Society" (p. [3]) This committee revised the author's manuscript. Cf. Edward Kremers and George Urdang, Hist. of pharmacy, Philadelphia [1940] p. 268.

"Table of ancient names": p. [459]-470; "Table of systematic names used in the Massachusetts pharmacopoeia": p. [471]-482.

"An abridgment [by Benjamin Vaughan?] of Dr. Currie's Medical reports on the use of water" (p. [408]-439) was previously published in Augusta, Me., in 1799 under title: An abridgment of the second edition of a work ... on the use of water in diseases of the human frame. This is continued by "A brief analysis of the second volume of Currie's Medical reports" (p. [440]-447)

Related Work:

Currie, James, 1756-1805 Medical reports on the effects of water.

OCLC:

3215264