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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 copperplates of the most convenient furnaces, and principal pharmaceutical instruments. : Being an improvement of the New dispensatory by Dr. Lewis.

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EditionThe fourth edition; with many alterations, corrections, and additions: and a full and clear account of the new chemical doctrines published by Mr. Lavoisier.
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Printed by Thomas Dobson, at the stone-house, no. 41, South Second-Street, M,DCC,XCVI. [1796]
Descriptionxxvii, 1 unnumbered page, 622 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, III [i.e., 6] leaves of plates (2 folded) ; 22 cm (8vo)
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorLewis, William, 1708-1781. New dispensatory.
Other author/creatorRotheram, John, 1751-1804, editor.
Other author/creatorBlack, Joseph, 1728-1799, dedicatee.
Other author/creatorScot, Robert, 1745-1823 engraver.
Other author/creatorAllardice, S. (Samuel), engraver.
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 30693. ^A478749
General noteDedicated to Joseph Black by the editor, John Rotheram.
General noteErrors in paging: p. x-xi, 272, 397, 423-424, 543-544 misnumbered viii-ix, 372, 379, 424-423, 544-545.
General notePlate [3] signed: [Robert] Scot & [Samuel] Allardice.
General noteBookseller's advertisements, p. [623-624].
References Evans 30693
References Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1146
References Rink, E. Technical Americana, 646
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 30693).
Genre/formBooksellers' advertisements Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Genre/formPress figures (Printing)

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