The Edinburgh new dispensatory : with the additions of the most approved formulae, from the best foreign pharmacopoeias ; the whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations ; and enriched with the latest discoveries in natural history, chemistry, and medicine ; with new tables of elective attractions, of antimonial and mercurial preparations, &c. ; and several copperplates of the most convenient furnaces, and principal pharmaceutical instruments ; being an improvement of the New dispensatory by Dr. Lewis.

  • Lewis, William, 1708-1781.
Date:
MDCCXCVI [1796]
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Credit: The Edinburgh new dispensatory : with the additions of the most approved formulae, from the best foreign pharmacopoeias ; the whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations ; and enriched with the latest discoveries in natural history, chemistry, and medicine ; with new tables of elective attractions, of antimonial and mercurial preparations, &c. ; and several copperplates of the most convenient furnaces, and principal pharmaceutical instruments ; being an improvement of the New dispensatory by Dr. Lewis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Gallic acid |The a^ingent PrinciPlc of vc I getables. Lactic acid Acid of four whey. Saccholactic acid Unknown till lately. Formic acid Acid of ants. Bombic acid Unknown till lately. Sebacic acid Ditto. Lithic acid Urinary calculus. Pruffic acid f Colouring matter of Pruffian | blue. It is not pretended that thefe acids can be formed by combining the fimple elements of their bafes, and adding oxygen to the compound radical, fo as to produce a fynthetic proof of their nature and con- ftitution ; but by means of deftructive diftillation in clofe veffels, and by other accurate modes of analyfis, their various elements can be feparated from each other, and their feveral proportions afcertained with tolerable precifion. The metals form another fet of oxydable or even acidifiable bafes, and it is worthy of remark, that in the ftate of oxyds, they all agree with the general phenomena of alkaline bodies ; while many of them, by a farther addition of oxygen, are converted into acids. 'I hey are all combuftible bodies, and moft of them require an exceeding high degree of tempera- ture to combine them with oxygen in the dry way ; but all of them may be combined with it in the moid way, by taking advantage of the elective attractions. What was formerly called the reguline form of me- tals, is their moft fimple ftate, in which they are not combined with any known fubftance ; while, on the contrary, the ftate of calx, in which they were for- merly funpofed to be pure elementary bodies, is that in which, by addition of a fafurating portion of oxy- gen, lefs than is necefTary for the acid ftate, they are converted into metallic oxyds, formerly denominated calces.