[Lewis, Willian]

The New Dispensatory

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London For J. Nourse 1770 Containing I. The Elements of Pharmacy. II. the Materia Medica, or an Account of the Substances employed in Medicine; with the Virtues and Uses of each Article, so far as they are warranted by Experience and Observation. III. The Preparations and Compositions of the new London and Edinburgh Pharmacopoeias; with such of the old ones as are kept in the Shops; the most celebrated foreign Medicines; the most useful of those directed in the Hospitals; sundry elegant extermporaneous Forms, &c. digested in such a Method as to compose a regular System of Pharmacy; with Remarks on their Preparation and Uses; the Means of distinguishing Adulteraions; of performing the more difficulat and dangerous Processes with Ease and Safety, &c. The whole interspersed With Practical Cautions and Observationis. The Third Edition corrected, with large Additions. 8vo. [210 x 128 x 58 mm]. viii, [iv], 692 pp. Newly bound by Bayntun-Riviere in old-style calf, the covers with a blind fillet border, the spine divided into six panels, lettered in the second on a red goatskin label and dated at the foot, plain endleaves, red sprinkled edges. First published in 1753 and again in 1765. Some light soiling and a few minor stains but a good copy. Inscribed on the original front free endleaf: "1772 John Potter His Book. John Potter His Book 1772. Henry Wierman, His Hand and Pen 1775".

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