Author Lewis, William, 1708-1781.

Title 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 pharmacopœias. With the additions of the most approved formulæ, 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 copper-plates of the most convenient furnaces, and principal pharmaceutical instruments. Being an improvement of the New dispensatory by Dr. Lewis.

Imprint Walpole, N.H., Printed by D. Carlisle, jun. for Thomas & Andrews, in Boston, and Thomas, in Worcester, 1796.
Location Call Number Status
 Othmer Rare Books  RS79 .L495 1796  LIB USE ONLY
Description xxix, [1], 622 p. III (i.e. 5) pl. (1 fold.) tables. 21 cm.
Edition The 4th ed.; with many alterations, corrections, and additions: and a full and clear account of the new chemical doctrines published by Mr. Lavoisier.
Note Edited by John Rotheram.
"The third American from the fourth Edinburgh edition."
Imprint file: New Hampshire. Walpole. 1796 Massachusetts. Worcester. 1796.
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 Rotheram, John, 1751-1804, ed.
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794. Traité élémentaire de chemie.
Related Title New despensatory.