Christison, Robert; Griffith, R. Eglesfeld. A Dispensatory, or Commentary on the Pharmacopoeias of Great Britain (and the United States); comprising the Natural History, Description, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Actions, Uses, and Doses of the Articles of the Materia Medica. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1848. Second Edition, Revised and Improved. [12039]
Full brown sheep with some scuffing and edge-wear, a bit of fraying at the headcap, joints are rubbed but still sound and not cracked, some old stains and blotches to the binding, the leather treated with archival leather restorer, 9 x 6 1/2 inches, tight. Contemporary signature & ink stamp of Joseph E. West, M. D. on the front end papers, his signature also on the title page. [i]-xcv, [xcvi], [97]-1008; 32 pp. publisher's catalogue of medical books. The binding is tight, the pages are clean; there are a few slips of paper laid or pasted in of cures and medical advice, all contemporary with the book. Good. Hardcover.
Title continues: Second Edition, Revised and Improved, with a Supplement, containing the most important New Remedies, with copious Additions, and Two Hundred and Thirteen Illustrations, by R. Eglesfeld Griffith, M. D., Author of "A Medical Botany," etc., etc.
"The Dispensatory of Dr. Christison enjoys a well-deserved reputation in Great Britain, and the editor of the present edition is fully convinced that, notwithstanding the excellence of the United States Dispensatory of Drs. Wood and Bache, a republication of Dr. Christison's work cannot fail to be acceptable and useful to pharmaceutists and others in this country. It will be found to contain very full and copious observations on the various preparations, not only of a theoretical, but also of an eminently practical nature.
"In the present edition, all the processes of the United States Pharmacopoeia have been added, and also a description of such articles as are recognized in that work, but not noticed by Dr. Christison, with an account of their preparations and uses. Many useful tables and other matter have likewise been added from Redwood's edition of Gray's Supplement to the Pharmacopeias. To add still further to the value of this edition, it has been copiously illustrated with representations of medicinal plants, apparatus, &c." - Preface to the American Edition.
