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Author
Brown, William, 1748-1792
Cist, Charles, 1738-1805, printer
Steiner, Melchior, -1807?, printer
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Pharmacopoeia
United States. Continental Army
Title
Pharmacopoeia simpliciorum et efficaciorum : in usum nosocomii militaris, ad exercitum foederatarum Americae civitatum pertinentis ; hodiernae nostrae inopiae rerumque angustiis, feroci hostium saevitiae, belloque crudeli ex inopinato patriae nostrae illato debitis, maxime accommodata
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Publisher
Philadelphiae : Ex officina Styner & Cist
Description
The author's name appears on the title page of the editio altera, Philadelphiae, 1781
"This was the first Pharmacopoeia published in the United States"--Hildeburn
Preliminary note (p. [2]) dated "Lititz, Mart. 12, 1778." Brown was stationed at the army hospital at Lititz, Pa., and was physician-general of the Middle Department of the Continental Army. The work is sometimes cited as the Lititz Pharmacopoeia
Based primarily on the Pharmacopoeia Edinburgensis, 1756. Cf. George Urdang, "Addenda to the 'Lititz pharmacopoeia,'" in Edward Kremers' Documents pertaining to the medicinal supplies within the North American Colonies from 1643 to 1780, Madison, Wis., 1944, p. 13
Signatures: A-D⁴
NLM copy: interleaved
NLM copy: housed with the copy are photocopies of early c20 newspaper clippings related to the author (dedication of home in Alexandria, Va.; dedication of grave at Pohick Church, near Mount Vernon in Va.), photograph of a contemporary portrait of Brown, and photocopy of a typewritten transcription of a letter from Brown to George Washington relating to medical matters in the Continental Army (original in LC)
Film 633 reel 16 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 16, no. 297)
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Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints
Blake, J. NLM 18th cent.
ESTC (RLIN)
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NLM copy re-bound in c20 red goatskin; stored in a case
Condition reviewed
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Subjects: Materia Medica; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Military Medicine
Language Latin
Publication date 1778
publication_date QS:P577,+1778-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: usnationallibraryofmedicine; medicineintheamericas; medicalheritagelibrary; americana
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2544034R.nlm.nih.gov
Source
Internet Archive identifier: 2544034R.nlm.nih.gov
https://archive.org/download/2544034R.nlm.nih.gov/2544034R.pdf

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