Author: BROOKES, Richard).
Title: Vollständiges Dispensatorium aus denen Londoner und Edimburgschen (sic) Pharmacopoen wie auch aus dem Königl. Hospital-Dispensatorio zu Edimburg zusammengetragen...wobey zugleich die Dosen, Eigenschaften und der Gebrauch...gezeiget...werden... Nach der neuesten Ausgabe aus dem Englischen übersetzt.
Description: 1770 With woodcut head- and tailpieces. 8 leaves, 832 pp., (1) leaf corrections. 8vo. Contemp. half vellum. Berlin, Arnold Wever, 1770. Pharmaceutical work by Richard Brookes (fl. 1721-1763), English physician and author of compilations and translations on medicine, surgery, natural history, etc. most of which went through several editions. First published in the original English "The general dispensatory" it is present here in a probably unrecorded German edition posthumously published. With an introduction on pharmaceutical therapies, it gives advice about the use and effect of medicines, and deals with absorbents, anodynes, purgatives, laxatives, restoratives, diuretics, diaphretics, a.o. - Nice copy. - Not in Blake nor Lesky, Wellcome, etc.; no bibliographical records found. SCIENCE: MEDICINE ; SCIENCE: PHARMACY ;

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