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 Additions 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 Antimonial and Mercurial Preparations, &c. and several copperplates of the most convenient furnaces, and Principal pharmaceutical instruments. Being an improvement of the new dispensatory by Dr. Lewis. The fifth edition; with many alterations, Corrections, and Additions: and a full and clear account of the new chemical doctrines published by Mr. Lavoisier - Lewis, William 1708-1781 (printed for William Creech. And sold in London by G. G. and J. Robinson and T. Kay, 1797)
Dedication signed: John Rotherham, the editor
English Short Title Catalog, T114524
Reproduction of original from British Library
With a half-title and final leaf listing the makers of 'Furnaces, beams, weights, & measures' illustrated