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. The fifth edition; with many alterations, Corrections, and Additions: and a full and clear account of the new chemical doctrines published by Mr. Lavoisier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, William, 1708-1781.

Standardized Title:

New dispensatory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dispensatories.

Pharmacopoeias--Great Britain.

Pharmacopoeias.

Materia medica--Early works to 1800.

Materia medica.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxi,[1],622,[2]p.,plates )

Other Title:

Edinburgh new dispensatory

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : printed for William Creech. And sold in London by G. G. and J. Robinson and T. Kay, M,DCC,XCVII. [1797]

Notes:

Dedication signed: John Rotherham, the editor.

With a half-title and final leaf listing the makers of 'Furnaces, beams, weights, & measures' illustrated.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T114524.

OCLC:

642291908