The Edinburgh new dispensatory
Subtitle: containing I. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. II. The materia medica; or, an account of the different substances employed in medicine. III. The pharmaceutical preparations and medicinal compositions of the latest editions of the London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeias. With the additions of the most approved formulae, from the best foreign pharmacopoeias. : The whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations; and enriched with the latest discoveries in natural history, chemistry, and medicine; : with new tables of elective attractions, of antimonial and mercurial preparations, &c. : And copperplates of the most convenient furnaces, and principal pharmaceutical instruments. : Being an improvement of the New dispensatory by Dr. Lewis.
Contributors: Rotheram, John, 1751-1804, ed.; Black, Joseph, 1728-1799, dedicatee.; Scot, Robert, 1744?-1823, engraver.; Allardice, Samuel, d. 1798, engraver.
Edition: The fourth edition; with many alterations, corrections, and additions: and a full and clear account of the new chemical doctrines published by Mr. Lavoisier.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 30693.
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Dobson, at the stone-house, no. 41, South Second-Street.
Published: 1796
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 622
Subjects: Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, -- 1734-1794.; Chemistry, Pharmaceutical.; Dispensatories.; Materia medica.; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.; Pharmacopoeias.
Notes: Dedicated to Joseph Black by the editor, John Rotheram.

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Errors in paging: p. x-xi, 272, 397, 423-424, 543-544 misnumbered viii-ix, 372, 379, 424-423, 544-545.

Plate [3] signed: [Robert] Scot & [Samuel] Allardice.

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Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 30693)