The Edinburgh new dispensatory
Subtitle: containing I. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. II. The materia medica; or, an account of the natural history, qualities, operations and uses, of the different substances employed in medicine. III. The pharmaceutical preparations and medicinal compositions of the new editions of the London (1788) and Edinburgh (1783) pharmacopoeias; : with explanatory, critical, and practical observations on each: together with the addition of those formulae, from the best foreign pharmacopoeias, which are held in highest esteem in other parts of Europe. : The whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations, and enriched by the latest discoveries in natural history, chemistry, and medicine; : with new tables of elective attractions, of antimony, of mercury, &c. : And copperplates of the most convenient furnaces, and principal pharmaceutical instruments. : Being an improvement upon the New dispensatory of Dr. Lewis.
Contributors: Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828, ed.; Baker, George, Sir, 1722-1809, dedicatee.
Edition: A new edition; with many alterations, corrections, and additions.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 23503.
Publisher: Printed by T. Dobson, at the stone-house, no. 41, in Second-Street.
Published: 1791
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 656
Subjects: Chemistry, Pharmaceutical.; Dispensatories.; Materia medica.; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.; Pharmacopoeias.
Notes: Dedicated to Sir George Baker by the editor, Andrew Duncan.

Signatures: [A]⁸ B-2S⁸.

Error in paging: p. 436 misnumbered 536.

Evans 23503.

Austin, R.B.  Early Amer. medical imprints, 1144.

Rink, E.  Technical Americana, 639.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 23503)