Author: LEWIS, WILLIAM F.R.S.
Title: An Experimental History of the Materia Medica, or of the Natural and Artificial Substances made use of in Medicine: containing a compendious view of their Natural History, an account of their Pharmaceutic Properties, and an Estimate of their Medicinal Powers.
Description: 1761, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, for the Author, 1761. 4to, xxii, [ii], 591p, [32p index]. Slight browning throughout, VG in fine recent half-calf binding, raised bands, gilt lettered. Bookplate of Francis Rigby Brodbelt M.D. with his signature on title. Thornton & Tully p158 ' William Lewis has been neglected by historians. He taught chemistry and was a pharmacologist, and with Alexander Chisholm issued the New Dispensatory in 1753'. His Materia Medica includes the heavy metals as well as natural substances. Very Good.

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