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Lewis, William, 1708-1781. The Edinburgh new dispensatory: cantaining, I. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. II. The materia medica; or, An account of the different substance employed in medicine. III. The pharmaceutical preparations and medicinal compositions of the latest editions of the London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeias. With additions of the most approves formulae, from the best foreign pharmacopoeias. The whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations; and enriched with the latest discoveries in natural history, chemistry, and medicine; with new tables of elective attractions of antimonial and mercurial preparations, and several copperplates of the most convenient furnaces, and principal pharmaceutical instruments. Being an improvement of the New dispensatory by Dr. Lewis. The 4th ed.; with many alterations, corrections, and additions: and a full and clear account of the new chemical doctrines published by Mr. Lavoisier. Edinburgh, Printed for W. Creech and sold in London by G. G. and J. J. Robinson [etc.] 1794. xxxi, [1], 622 p. fold. plates. 21 cm.

Brown, John, 1735-1788. Elementa medicinae. English The elements of medicine, or, A translation of the Elementa medicinae Brunonis : with large notes, illustrations, and comments / by the author of the original work. The sixth edition. Fairhaven [Mass.] : Printed by James Lyon ..., 1797. [2], xiv [i.e. xii], 404 [i.e. 406], [12] p. (1st leaf blank), [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 ill. (engraving) ; 17 cm.