The American dispensatory, containing the operations of pharmacy; together with the natural chemical, pharmaceutical and medical history of the different substances employed in medicine; illustrated and explained, according to the principles of modern chemistry: comprehending the improvements in Dr. Duncan's second edition of the Edinburgh new dispensatory. The arrangement simplified, and the whole adapted to the practice of medicine and pharmacy in the United States. With several copperplates, exhibiting the new system of chemical characters, and representing the most useful apparatus / By John Redman Coxe.

John Redman Coxe

Date:: 1806

Credit: The American dispensatory, containing the operations of pharmacy; together with the natural chemical, pharmaceutical and medical history of the different substances employed in medicine; illustrated and explained, according to the principles of modern chemistry: comprehending the improvements in Dr. Duncan's second edition of the Edinburgh new dispensatory. The arrangement simplified, and the whole adapted to the practice of medicine and pharmacy in the United States. With several copperplates, exhibiting the new system of chemical characters, and representing the most useful apparatus / By John Redman Coxe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$<a Materia Medica. diftin& heads; it has been deemed proper in the prefent Ameri- can Pharmacopceia, to purfue that plan, as far as it appeared ad- vantageous. Some preparations, as powders, pills, tinctures, &c. undoubtedly arrange better under one general head: thefe are therefore ftill retained diftinét, though they are brought into the general alphabetical order, inftead of being placed in feparate chapters at the end of the materia medica. By the prefent plan a connected, view is given of every preparation arifing out of the article under confideration ; inftead of having torrecur to fo many different places. %) . The fame reafons have induced me to give the chemical hif- tory of each article, in immediate conne€tion with its natural, medi- cal, and pharmaceutical hiftory, from the Epitome of Chemif- try” of Dr. Duncan’s Edinburgh Difpenfatory ; a portion of the work, in my opinion unneceflary for the complete chemift, and to the young beginner unintelligible, without a reference to other fources. ‘To refrefh the memory, it will be of more utility unit- ed with the confideration ofeach article; for, with any other view, it will {carcely ever be confulted, either by the chemift or the tyro in that fcience. _ The nomenclature of the Edinburgh college.is here adopted, The fynonymes of the London and Dublin colleges are added for the fake of perfpicuity ;.and the names of many of the articles are given in, the moft | current languages, from, the. «] i€tionary of Merchandisey’* yd ie The Dutch, defignated, by Oi: Janae, 9 in Danith -... -. ame Y. 09 LET: OT rR eR MON ARR ep Germans fei ek ee Do TreMat, piece cee oe eee i Portuguefe earth ee . Nan) TT A, Oa es ara SRN ME i + Ey Rufhen ae - Re. a ‘Spanith - “4 A Site oe, Swedith * - = bs ae | ‘The operations of Pharmacy, are neceflarily included in a diftinct chapter, and precede the confideration of the other part of the work. SAR Oo Ae ane _* Firtt American Edition.$

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