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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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A long iron plate, one end of which clofely fhuts the mouth ofthe furnace. B, A ledge of free-ftone or brick-work. C, the mouth of the canal. Regifters, &c. as in the other furnace*. Fig. 6. An athanor. A, The tower which has a cover at the top B when ufed. C, The fire-place. D, The afh-pit. E, E, An oblong frame of metal or ftone connected with the tower A. F, F, A chamber conne&ed to the fire place C, and continued up tothe chimney G. Above this chamber the reft of the frame is lined withiron. H, H, A cavity for holding fand, which is heated by the long rangeof fire in the chamber below. Fi-. 7. and 8. Dr Blacks furnace. To render our defcription of thisinftrument as fiinple as poffible. let the reader fuppofe that the body ofthe common Hove, Fig. 1 is made of an oval form, and clofed at each endby a thick iron plate. The upper ptete or end of this furnace is perfo-rated with two holes: one of thefe, A, is pretty large, and is often the mouth •• j.atkIn;) Jj<;
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