The American Dispensatory, containing the operations of pharmacy; together with the natural, chemical, pharmaceutical and medical history of the different substances employed in medicine ....
by COXE, John Redman
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Philadelphia, Published by Thomas Dobson, 1810.. 8°, contemporary calf (chafed, upper board detached). Tear along gutter of title page (8 cm.); some browning and foxing. In good condition. Faint ownership signature of T.L. Beach at top of title-page. 839 pp., 6 engraved plates showing various instruments for mixing medications. *** Second edition of a work that first appeared in Philadelphia, 1806; by 1831 it had gone through 9 editions. It lists the nature of hundreds of medical ingredients and gives recipes for their use. Coxe was the first to practice vaccination in Philadelphia and did much to overcome the ignorance and prejudice against it.*** Shaw and Shoemaker 19883. Not in Wellcome; see II, 402, for the fourth, sixth and ninth editions. Austin 553. On the author, see Garrison & Morton 5425. Not in Sabin, which lists other works by the author.
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- The American Dispensatory, containing the operations of pharmacy; together with the natural, chemical, pharmaceutical and medical history of the different substances employed in medicine ....
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- COXE, John Redman
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- Philadelphia, Published by Thomas Dobson, 1810.
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- medicine, pharmacy, vaccinations, dispensatories, chemicals, materia medica, Illustrated books, pharmacology
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