The new dispensatory: containing, I. The elements of pharmacy. II. The materia medica, or an Account of the Substances employed in Medicine; with the Virtues and Uses of each Article, so far as they are warranted by Experience and Observation. III. The preparations and compositions of the new London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeias; with some of the most celebrated foreign Medicines; the most useful of those directed in the Hospitals; sundry elegant extemporaneous Forms, &c. digested in such a Method as to compose a regular System of Pharmacy; with Remarks on their Preparation and Uses; the Means of distinguishing Adulterations; of performing the more difficult and dangerous Processes with Ease and Safety, &c. The whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations. By W. Lewis, M. B. F. R. S.

People / Organizations

• F. Wingrave ("printed for")
• William Lewis (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for F. Wingrave (successor to Mr. Nourse), in the Strand; J. Johnson, St. Paul's-Church-Yard; G. G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row; and W. J. and J. Richardson, Royal Exchange, [1799?]

Publication year

1799

ESTC No.

N10363

Grub Street ID

371

Description

viii,[8],606,[40]p. ; 8⁰

Note

With an index.

Uncontrolled note

Another 6th ed. is dated 1799