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Title: The Edinburgh new dispensatory : 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 addition 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 antimony, of mercury, &c. : and several copperplates of the most convenient furnaces, and principal pharmaceutical instruments : being an improvement of the new dispensatory
Year: 1797 (1790s)
Authors: Lewis, William, 1708-1781 Rotheram, John, 1751-1804 Royal College of Physicians of London Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Subjects: Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794 Dispensatories Pharmacopoeias Dispensatories
Publisher: Edinburgh : Prined for William Creech, and sold in London by G.G and J. Robinson and T. Kay
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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