8vo. 2 parts in 1. 140 and 278 leaves, separate signatures and pagination, text in double columns.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, xi, 953.
John Quincy, d. 1722, English medical writer.
The English Dispensatory was first published in 1721 and contains a complete account of the materia medica and therapeutics.
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New Dispensatory.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 41. no. 17, as above.
The Edinburgh New Dispensatory: containing I. The Elements of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. II. The Materia Medica . . . III.
The Pharmaceutical Preparations and Medicinal Compositions of the New Editions of the London (1788) and Edinburgh (1783) Pharmacopoeias;
with Explanatory, Critical, and Practical Observations on each . . . The Whole interspersed with practical Cautions and Observations,
and enriched by the latest Discoveries in Natural History, Chemistry, and Medicine; with new Tables of elective Attractions,
of Antimony, of Mercury, &c. and Copperplates of the most convenient Furnaces, and Principal Pharmaceutical Instruments. Being
an Improvement upon the New Dispensatory of Dr. Lewis. A New Edition; with many Alterations, Corrections, and Additions. [By Andrew Duncan.]
Philadelphia: Printed by
T. Dobson,
1791.
RS151.3 .L4
8vo. 328 leaves, 3 engraved plates; text printed in double columns.
Evans 23503.
This edition not in the
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue.
William Lewis, 1714-1781, English chemist. His
New Dispensatory was first published in London in 1753.
Andrew Duncan, the elder, 1744-1828, Scottish physician and professor at Edinburgh University. His edition of Lewis’s
New Dispensatory was first printed in 1786, and several times reprinted. Later it was re-edited by his son Andrew Duncan, junior.
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Salmon’s supplement to the Dispensatory.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 41. no. 1, as above,
p 8vo.
SALMON,
William.
Phylaxa Medicina: A Supplement to the London-Dispensatory, and Doron: being, a Cabinet of choice Medicines collected, and
fitted for vulgar Use. By William Salmon, M.D. The Medicines mentioned in this Book, are to be had ready prepared at the Author’s House at the Blew-Balcony by the
Ditch-side near Holborn-Bridge, London. The
Second Edition.
London: Printed for
Simon Neale,
1688.
8vo. 52 leaves, printed in double columns.
Not in Lowndes.
Not in Osler.
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, page 315.
STC S442. The STC has no entry for the first edition.
William Salmon, 1644-1713, English empiric, travelled in New England and the West Indies before settling to the irregular practice of medicine
in London. The preface to this edition of his
Phylaxa Medicina has the date of the first edition, March 27, 1684. The
Doron Medicon
was printed in the previous year, 1683.
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