Pharmacopoeia simpliciorum et efficaciorum, in usum nosocomii militaris
Subtitle: ad exercitum foederatarum Americae civitatum pertinentis; hodiernae nostrae inopiae rerumque angustiis, feroci hostium saevitiae, belloque crudeli ex inopinato patriae nostrae illato debitis, maxime accommodata.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 15750.
Publisher: Ex officina Styner & Cist.
Published: 1778
Place of publication: Philadelphiae
Language: lat
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Pharmacopoeias.; Pharmacy, Military.; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Other titles: Lititz pharmacopoeia.
Notes: "This was the first Pharmacopoeia published in the United States."--Hildeburn.

Author's name taken from the title page of the "editio altera," Philadelphia, 1781. William Brown was stationed at the army hospital at Lititz, Pa., and was physician-general of the Middle Dept. of the Continental Army. The work is sometimes cited as the Lititz pharmacopoeia. The preliminary note, p. [2], is dated: Lititz, Mart. 12, 1778.

Evans 15750.

Hildeburn, C.R.  Pennsylvania, 3680.

Austin, R.B.  Early Amer. medical imprints, 297.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 15750)