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H.C. Carey & I. Lea. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. 9th edition, improved and greatly enlarged. Spine cover and front board missing. Owner's name on front free endpage. (pharmaceutical preparations, materia medica, dispensatories, pharmacopoeia0

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

1806. COXE, JOHN REDMAN. THE AMERICAN DISPENSATORY, CONTAINING THE OPERATIONS OF PHARMACY; TOGETHER WITH THE NATURAL CHEMICAL, PHARMACEUTICAL AND MEDICAL HISTORY OF THE DIFFERENT SUBSTANCES EMPLOYED IN MEDICINE ... Philadelphia: Printed by A. Bartram, for Thomas Dobson, 1806. First edition. 8vo., xvi + 787 pp. Some copperplate engravings in the text. Title continued: "Illustrated and Explained, according to the Principles of Modern Chemistry: comprehending the Improvements in Dr. Duncan's Second Edition of the Edinburgh New Dispensatory. The arrangement simplified, and the whole adapted to the Practice of Medicine and Pharmacy in the United States." Coxe was chair of materia medica and pharmacy at the University of Pennsylvania in 1818; he was "Active in the field even before joining the University, he is regarded by many as the father of pharmacy in Philadelphia ... The present work is one of the earliest American drug compendia" (Heirs of Hippocrates). Calf. Boards, ffep & rfep detached, spine… Read More

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.