Wood and Bache’s Dispensatory.
The Dispensatory of the United States: Consisting of—
1. A treatise on Materia Medica, or the natural, commercial, chemical, and medical history of the substances employed in medicine, and recognized by the Pharmacopœias of the United States and Great Britain;
2. A treatise on Pharmacy: Comprising an account of the preparations directed by the American and British Pharmacopœias, and designed especially to illustrate the Pharmacopœia of the United States; and
3. A copious Appendix, embracing an account of all substances not contained in the official catalogues, which are used in medicine, or have any interest for the physician or apothecary. By Geo. B. Wood, M.D., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, etc. etc., and Franklin Bache, M.D., Professor of Chemistry in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, etc. etc. Eleventh edition, much enlarged. One vol. 8vo. $6.00.
This work has been thoroughly revised, with many alterations and additions, so as to bring it fully up to the level of the present state of materia medica and pharmacy. It embraces the substance of the recently revised United States and British Pharmacopœias, with a commentary on all that is new in those publications. Nothing, indeed, has been omitted in the revision which could render it worthy of the confidence it has enjoyed.