The new dispensatory: containing, I. The elements of pharmacy. II. The materia medica ... III. The preparations and compositions of the new London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeias / [William Lewis].

  • Lewis, William, 1708-1781
Date:
1785
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Credit: The new dispensatory: containing, I. The elements of pharmacy. II. The materia medica ... III. The preparations and compositions of the new London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeias / [William Lewis]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADVERTISEMENT i TO THE FIFTH EDITION. P is now fome years Jince Dr. Lewis himfelf obliged the public with an improved edition of this mofl ele- gant and ufeful work. Since that period great im- provement has been made in natural hijlory, by the attention and labour of learned and ingenious men; and the Materia Medica confiderably enriched with many va- luable and ufeful articles. therefore the editor (a new imprej/ion being called for) has thought it ncceffary to make fuch additions to the work as fjould render the prefent edition complete and perfett. Befdes theft additions, he has added to the vegetable articles of the Materia Medica the Li mice an names, where they were found to differ from thofe of the other botanic writers which Dr. Lewis chofe to ufe. He has likewife intro- duced, in their proper places, the new articles which have been lately received into the catalogue of the Edinburgh college ; and alfo corrected the for- mer compofitions of the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia by the laf edition of that work ; fill retaining many com-