Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, or, the London dispensatory
Subtitle: further adorned by the studies and collections of the fellows now living, of the said college ...
By: by Nicholas Culpepper ; gent. student in physick and astrology
Contributors: Allen, John, 1660?-1727?, printer; Boone, Nicholas, 1679-1738, bookseller; Henchman, Daniel, 1689-1761, bookseller; Edwards, John, -1725, printer; Royal College of Physicians of London
Publisher: Printed by John Allen, for Nicholas Booone, at the Sign of the Bible in Cornhill ; Daniel Henchman over-against the Brick Meeting-House ; and John Edwards, at the Sign of the Light-House
Published: 1720
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Pharmacopoeias; Early works to 1800; Dispensatories; Materia Medica; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Pharmacopoeias as Topic; Dispensatories as Topic
Other titles: Physitians library; London dispensatory
Description: Text considered to be the first full-length medical book published in North America; cf. Garrison-Morton.
Notes: Originally published in 1649 under title: "A physicall directory; or, A translation of the London dispensatory, made by the Colledge of Physicians in London [Wing C7540]," itself a translation of the Pharmacopoeia Londinensis of 1618. Cf. Wellcome, II. p. 414, and Austin.

Printed in two columns.

Includes indexes.

Signatures: A-Y⁸ Z⁸(-Z8) (-Z7). Cf. ESTC.

Advertisement on  p. [24] spells publisher as "Boone".

Evans, C. American bibliography, 2114

Austin, R.B.  Early Amer. medical imprints, 591

Blake, J.  NLM 18th cent., p. 105

English short title catalogue (ESTC), W27610

Garrison-Morton (5th ed.), 1828.2
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) ... in this impression you may find, 1. Three hundred useful additions; title: 2. All the notes that were in the margent are brought in the book ...; title: 3. The virtues, qualities, and properties of every simple; title: 4. The virtues and use of the compounds; title: 5. Cautions in giving all medicines that are dangerous; title: 6. All the medicines that were in the Old Latin Dispensary ...; title: 7. A key to Galen and Hippocrates ...; title: 8. In this impression, the Latin name of every one of the compounds is printed, and in what page of the new folio Latin book they are to be found.