Author Lewis, William, 1708-1781.

Title The Edinburgh new dispensatory: : containing I. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. II. The materia medica : or, an alphabetical arrangement of the substances employed in medicine ; with an account of their virtues and uses. 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 the most useful of those directed in the London hospitals, and in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh; together with the most esteemed foreign medicines, and a variety of elegant extemporaneous forms. Digested in a regular method : and the different departments enriched by the introduction and application of the later discoveries in natural history, chemistry, and medicine ; with particular directions for performing the various processes ; remarks on the properties and uses of the several subjects ; the means of distinguishing spurious substitutes, and of detecting adulterations, &c. New tables of elective attractions, single and double ; of antimony, mercury, &c. : 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.

Imprint Edinburgh : Printed for Charles Elliot, Edinburgh; and G.G.J. and J. Robinson, London, 1786.

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 Rare Book Storage  RS79 .L495 1786  AVAILABLE
Description iv-xxxii, 64, *65-*94, 65-720 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Note Signatures: a4-b4, A4-Z4, Aa4[misnumbered Aa3]-Yy4.
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.
Contents I. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. -- II. The materia medica : or, an alphabetical arrangement of the substances employed in medicine ; with an account of their virtues and uses. -- III. Pharmaceutical preparations. -- IV. Medicinal compositions.
Gift Roy G. Neville; purchase; 2004.
Indexed In Neville, R. G., Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library, volume 2, page 613 CHF #150-1
Subject(s) Pharmacy -- Early works to 1800.
Drugs -- Early works to 1800.
Pharmaceutical chemistry -- Early works to 1800.
Materia medica -- Early works to 1800.
Dispensatories -- Early works to 1800.
Pharmacopoeias -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Alternate Author Webster, Charles, 1750-1795.
Irving, Ralph.
Lewis, William, 1708-1781. New dispensatory.
Related Title New dispensatory.
The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry.
The materia medica : or, an alphabetical arrangement of the substances employed in medicine ; with an account of their virtues and uses.
Pharmaceutical preparations.
Medicinal compositions.