The Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America
Subtitle: 1820
By: By the authority of the medical societies and colleges
Publisher: Printed by Wells and Lilly for Charles Ewer
Published: 1820
Place of publication: Boston
Language: mul; eng; lat
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Pharmaceutical Preparations; Pharmacopoeias
Other titles: United States pharmacopoeia; American pharmacopoeia; National pharmacopoeia
Notes: Variously called the American pharmacopoeia, the National pharmacopoeia, and the United States pharmacopoeia.

Main text in Latin and English on opposite pages.

Prepared and published by the authority of a general medical convention, held at Washington, January, 1820; L. Spalding, chairman of the committee of publication. Cf. p. [3]

"Historical introduction": p. [5]-16.

"Materia medica, or a catalogue of simple medicines, together with some prepared medicines": p. [27]-50; "Secondary list": p. [51]-57.

1st American Pharmacopoeia.

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1500