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The American dispensatory, containing the operations of pharmacy; together with the natural, chemical, pharmaceutical and medical history of the different substances employed in medicine; illustrated and explained, according to the principles of modern chemistry: comprehending the improvements in Dr. Duncan's second edition of the Edinburgh new dispensatory. The arrangement simplified, and the whole adapted to the practice of medicine and pharmacy in the United States. / By John Redman Coxe.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dispensatories.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 787 pages, 6 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed by A. Bartram, for Thomas Dobson, 1806.
- Notes:
- The Edinburgh new dispensatory (Edinburgh, 1786; also issued under title, The new dispensatory) was a revision by Charles Webster and Ralph Irving of William Lewis' The new dispensatory (1st ed., London, 1753) Andrew Duncan's edition first appeared in Edinburgh in 1803. Cf. D. L. Cowen, "The Edinburgh dispensatories," in Papers of the Bibliog. Soc. of Amer., v. 45 (1951) p. 85-93.
- "Posological and prosodial table": p. 732-743.
- "Table of names changed in the last edition of the London pharmacopoeia": p. 744-756.
- "Preface [dated 1804] to Dr. Duncan's edition of the Edinburgh new dispensatory": p. [ix]-xvi.
- Cited in:
- Shaw & Shoemaker 10222
- OCLC:
- 5042245
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