The American new dispensatory : containing general principles of pharmaceutic chemistry ; pharmaceutic operations ; chemical analysis of the articles of materia medica ; materia medica, including several new and valuable articles, the production of the United States ; preparations and compositions ; with an appendix, containing 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 ; and several useful tables ; the whole compiled from the most approved authors, both European and American / by James Thacher.

  • Thacher, James, 1754-1844.
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The American new dispensatory : containing general principles of pharmaceutic chemistry ; pharmaceutic operations ; chemical analysis of the articles of materia medica ; materia medica, including several new and valuable articles, the production of the United States ; preparations and compositions ; with an appendix, containing 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 ; and several useful tables ; the whole compiled from the most approved authors, both European and American / by James Thacher. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Boston : Printed and published by T. B. Wait and Co., Court-Street, 1810.

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529 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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Shaw & Shoemaker 21476
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1877

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1959. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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"Dr. Thacher ... has adopted for the basis of his work the Pharmacopoeia of Massachusetts, lately published by the Medical Society." - "Recommendation. Report [dated Oct. 14, 1809] of a committee of the Massachusetts Medical Society" (p. [3]) This committee revised the author's manuscript. Cf. Edward Kremers and George Urdang, Hist. of pharmacy, Philadelphia [1940] p. 268
"Table of ancient names": p. [459]-470; "Table of systematic names used in the Massachusetts pharmacopoeia": p. [471]-482
"An abridgment [by Benjamin Vaughan?] of Dr. Currie's Medical reports on the use of water" (p. [408]-439) was previously published in Augusta, Me., in 1799 under title: An abridgment of the second edition of a work ... on the use of water in diseases of the human frame. This is continued by "A brief analysis of the second volume of Currie's Medical reports" (p. [440]-447)
NLM copy: with copious MS. notes (recipes) on front fly-leaves and final leaves.
Film 633 reel 93 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 93, no. 1877).

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