The American new dispensatory : Containing general principles of pharmaceutic chemistry; chemical analysis of the articles of materia medica; pharmaceutic operations; materia medica, including several new and valuable articles, the production of the United States; preparations and compositions. With an appendix, containing an account of mineral waters; medical prescriptions; the nature and medical uses of the gases; medical electricity; galvanism; an abridgment of Dr. Currie's reports on the use of water; the cultivation of the poppy plant, and the method of preparing opium ... The whole compiled from the most approved authors, both European and American.

  • Thacher, James, 1754-1844.
Date:
1817
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Credit: The American new dispensatory : Containing general principles of pharmaceutic chemistry; chemical analysis of the articles of materia medica; pharmaceutic operations; materia medica, including several new and valuable articles, the production of the United States; preparations and compositions. With an appendix, containing an account of mineral waters; medical prescriptions; the nature and medical uses of the gases; medical electricity; galvanism; an abridgment of Dr. Currie's reports on the use of water; the cultivation of the poppy plant, and the method of preparing opium ... The whole compiled from the most approved authors, both European and American. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and Compositions, the analogous officinals of the three British Pharmacopoeias, are inserted in his Dispensatory ; and in some instances the different processes of each are particularly described. These, although of utility in a scientific view, are not to be considered as indispensable to American practitioners in general: nor do they com- port with the plan here prescribed. The Pharmacopoeia of the Massachusetts Medical So- ciety, it will be confessed, is not inferior in point of merit to any other. It contains an ample and judicious selec- tion of medicinal substances and preparations; but, being intended merely as a standard of uniformity, the natural history, chemical properties, and medicinal virtues of natural and artificial substances, and their application as remedies, not being appropriate subjects, were inadmissi- ble in such a work. Indeed, since the appearance of that production, the expediency of a concise compilation adapt- ed to our own practical use, has become more evif'rnt; and from the desire of co-operating with the views of the Massachusetts Medical Society, their Pharmacopoeia is adopted as the basis of this work, and its nomenclature and order of arrangement are strictly followed throughout. It is, however, to be considered in the character of a compilation only; and when other than the language of the original is substituted, it is with the view of condens- ing the subject. The general principles of Pharmaceutic Chemistry, general analysis of the articles of Materia Medica and classification of Medicine, taken from Mur- ray's Elements, will be found to enrich the first part of this volume. With respect to the natural history, chem- ical composition, and properties of medicinal substances, both Duncan and Murray, together with the American Dispensatory by Dr. Cox, have been carefully consulted, and the same respectable and well established authorities have been the sources resorted to for information relative to officinal preparations and compositions. The munificence of Providence is so amply displayed in our country, that it may not be deemed too enthusiastic to anticipate the happy period, when by the associated labours of medical men, our Materia Medica shall be co- piously furnished from the three kingdoms of nature, with such materials, as will derive additional value from the consideration of their domestic origin, and the facility with which they may be procured. Several indigenous