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.
Date:
1810
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    RECOMMENDATION. REPORT OF A COMMITTEE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY. X he Committee appointed by the Massachusetts Medical Society, to examine a manuscript submitted to their inspection by Doctor James Thacher, under the title of the American New Dispensatory, have per- formed that service as minutely as their various avocations would admit; and are of opinion, that a work of this kind is much wanted at the present period, on account of the improvements and important discoveries, which have been made in chemical science within a few years, by which the existing publications have been in some measure superseded. Dr Thacher appears to have made his compilation from the most ap- proved modern publications, and to have adapted it to the purpose of ** a standard work, exhibiting, in familiar language and a concentrated form, the principles of modern pharmacy, chemistry and materia medica. Many of the ancient pharmaceutical articles and preparations, which experience has proved to possess little or no value, have been left out of the work, by which means it is compressed into a smaller compass, and rendered less expensive than most European publications of the same kind. A number of indigenous substances are introduced into the Materia Medica, which have been hi therto unknown, or which, though their properties are in some instances highly active, have never been brought into general use. As it appears to have been a principal object of Dr. Thacher to adapt the work to American practice ; and, as he has adopted for the basis of his work the Pharmacopoeia of Massachusetts, lately published by the Medical Society, and recommended for general use, they are of opinion, that it will co-operate with the views of the Society in that publication especially as its nomenclature and order of arrangement seem to be strictly observed in the manuscript. They therefore conclude, that it will be for the interest of medical sci- ence in this country, to encourage the work, and that it may be the means of exciting a more general attention to the medicinal virtues of American productions, any of which might be introduced into the Materia Medi- ca, and advantageously, as well as economically, supply the place o* foreign articles. JOHN WARREN AARON DEXTER. JOSIAH BARTLETT. Boston, October 14, 1809.