The Edinburgh new dispensatory: containing I. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. II. The materia medica; or, the natural, pharmaceutical and medical history of the different substances employed in medicine. III. The pharmaceutical preparations and compositions. : Including translations of the Edinburgh pharmacopœia, published in 1805, of the Dublin pharmacopœia, in 1807, and of London pharmacopœia, in 1815. : Illustrated and explained in the language, and according to the principles, of modern chemistry. : With numerous tables; and plates of pharmaceutical apparatus. / By Andrew Duncan, Jun. M.D. regius professor of medical jurisprudence in the University of Edinburgh; fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Royal Society of Edinburgh; and member of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, and associate of the Linnean Society of London. ; From the eighth and last Edinburgh edition. With large additions, relating principally to the vegetable productions of the United States. / By Jacob Dyckman, M.D. fellow of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the University of the State of New-York; member of the Literary and Philosophical Society; member of the Lyceum of Natural History; and one of the physicians to the public dispensatory, New-York.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Duncan, Andrew, Jun., 1773-1832.

Contributor:

• Lewis, William, 1708-1781.
• Dyckman, Jacob, 1788-1822.

Series:

• Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 44579.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Pharmaceutical chemistry.
• Dispensatories.
• Materia medica.
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
• Pharmacopoeias.

Genre:

• Publishers' advertisements -- New York (State) -- New York.

Physical Description:

9 unnumbered pages, vi-xvi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 18-798 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, V leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New-York: : Published by James Eastburn and Co. at the literary rooms, Broadway. Clayton & Kingsland, printers., 1818.

System Details:

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• text file

Notes:

• "Dr. Lewis published the first edition of his New dispensatory in 1754. ... After the death of Dr. Lewis, Dr. Webster and Dr. Duncan, senior, successively contributed to maintain the reputation of the work, by taking advantage of the discoveries made in natural history and chemistry, and by making those alterations which new editions ... rendered necessary ... these improved editions were entitled The Edinburgh new dispensatory. ..."--Author's preface, p. [vii]-viii.
• Error in paging: p. 405 misnumbered 504.
• Includes bibliographical references, and English and Latin indexes.
• "Directions to the bookbinder."--p. xvi.
• Publisher's advertisements, p. [799-800].
• Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 44579).

Related Work:

Lewis, William, 1708-1781. New dispensatory.

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