| Author | Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864.
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| Title | 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 ... / by John Redman Coxe.
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| Published | Philadelphia, Printed by A. Bartram, for Thomas Dobson, 1806.
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| Description | xvi, 787 p. : 6 plates ; 23 cm.
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| General Note | The Edinburgh new dispensatory (Edinburgh, 1786; also issued under title, The new dispensatory) was a revision by Charles Webster and Ralph Irving of William Lewis' The new dispensatory (1st ed., London, 1753) Andrew Duncan's edition first appeared in Edinburgh in 1803. Cf. D.L. Cowen, "The Edinburgh dispensatories," in Papers of the Bibliog. Soc. of Amer., v. 45 (1951) p. 85-93.
"Preface [dated 1804] to Dr. Duncan's edition of the Edinburgh new dispensatory": p. [ix]-xvi.
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| Subjects | Dispensatories.
Imprints, Early -- American -- To 1820.
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| Other Authors | Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828.
Lewis, William, 1708-1781. New dispensatory.
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| LC Card Number | 34-25967 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: RS 151.2 C879
mq223558: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
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