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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    Besides the judicious selection and arrangement which pervades the book, it is recommended to our countrymen in a Bpecial manner l>y the at- tention he has paid to the diseases with which they are afflicted, and the enous remedies which have been employed for their relief. . additions of articles are peculiarly interesting. Our native plants ■ \irtucs which it has heen too fashionable to overlook. Of this 1 am m re convinced as my knowledge of them increases. The delineation he has made of them constitutes the most beautiful feature in his picture ot the materia medica. SAMUEL L. MITCHELL. New York, J9th December, 1817. By DAVID IIOSACK, M.D. F.R.S. Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physick in the University of New York: And By JOHN VV. FRANCIS, M.D. Professor of the Institutes of Medicine. The Dispensatory of Dr. Thacher has for some time been before the pul lick, and the rapid sale it has experienced affords ample evidence of its intrinsick merits. On the vegetable materia medica of this country it contains a larger amount of information than any preceding work ; and the author has consulted equally his own reputation and the benefit of his readers, in order to render his volume of real practical utility. He has been most assiduous in the collection of his materials, and seldom trusted to the theories of others when unsupported by experience : and while he is parsimonious of opinions, he deals largely in facts. On these, as well as on other accounts, his American Dispensatory will be found a valuable repository of knowledge to the practitioners of the United States. The third edition is, with commendable industry, revised and improved. DAVID HOSACK. New York, December, 1817. JOHN W. FRANCIS. By LYMAN SPALDING, M.D. late President in the University of the Stale of New York, for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Western District. I have made The American New Dispensatory, which contains all our well known native medicines, my book of reference since its first publica- tion ; bo i use 1 found it superiour to any European Dispensatory, and a work which would assist in giving us a national character. New York, December IS, 1817. LTMAN SPALDING. By WRIGHT POST, M.D. Professor of Anatomy in the University of JVew York. I have perused with great satisfaction the third edition of Dr. Thacher's Dispensatory, and !cel much pleasure in recommending it to publick notice. 1 cannot but beH< >< that the medical profession in this country will esteem it an acceptable present, and feel under treat obligations to the author for the faithful and judicious manner in which the work is executed- New York, December 22, 1817. WRIGHT POST.