The American new dispensatory : containing general principles of pharmaceutick chemistry, chemical analysis of the articles of materia medica, pharmaceutick operations, materia medica, including several new and valuable articles, the production of the United States, preparations & compositions : with an appendix containing an account of mineral waters, medical prescriptions, the nature and medical uses of the gases, medical electricity, galvanism, an abridgement 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:
1821
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Credit: The American new dispensatory : containing general principles of pharmaceutick chemistry, chemical analysis of the articles of materia medica, pharmaceutick operations, materia medica, including several new and valuable articles, the production of the United States, preparations & compositions : with an appendix containing an account of mineral waters, medical prescriptions, the nature and medical uses of the gases, medical electricity, galvanism, an abridgement 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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    PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION. J. he increasing demand and extensive circulation of thi£ work afford unequivocal proof that the primary object ot the undertaking has been in some degree realized. It has ever been the author's solicitude to bestow on each edition such accessions as may appear commensurate with the improvements which are continually occurring relative to this branch of medical science. In this will be found additions and improvements of no inconsiderable importance. By the polite attention of professor Bige- low free access to his very valuable American Medical Botany has been permitted, and many articles of the materia medica in this volume are enriched by a portion derived from the labours of that accomplished botanist, which cannot fail of being received with particular inte- rest and favour. It is in a high degree gratifying to greet the medical publick on the accomplishment and publication of a Na* tional Pharmacopoeia. This production, so long a desi- deratum in medical science, reflects honour on our nation- al character, and it will be the standard medium of uni- formity in pharmaceutical medicine in the United States,, It has ever been considered desirable that a new phar- macopoeia should be followed by a corresponding dispen- satory, as a conformity in the two is found very conve- nient in practical medicine. In comparing the present edi- tion with the American Pharmacopoeia they will be found in the nomenclature and general principles strictly con- formable, although any infringement of the copyright pri* vilege has been scrupulously avoided. It is in a fe*.v particulars of minor import only that any difference is ob-