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ACCOUJIT OF NEW BOOKS. 



JCCOUNT OF NEW BOOKS. 



The Edinburgh New Difpenfatory; contaljiing, h. The Elememis 

 t of Pharmaceutical Chemiftry: 11. The Materia Medica; or, 



the Natural, Fhdrmaceutical and Medical Hifiory of the differ- 

 ent Suhfiances etnployedin Medicine: III. The Pharmaceutical 

 Preparations andCompofitiom ; including complete andaccuratc 

 Trnnjlations of the Svo. Edition of the London Pharmacopoeia, 

 publijhed in 1791 ; Dublin Pharmacopoeia, publiJJied in 17^4; 

 and of the New Edition of the Edinburgh Pharmacopccia, pub- 

 lijhed in 1 803. Jlluftrated and explained in the Language, and 

 according to the Principles of Modern Chemiftry. With many 

 new and nfeful Tables, andfeveral Copper-plates, explaining the 

 . irnvx Syfteni of Chemical CharaScrs, and reprefenting the moft' 

 ufefulPhar77iaceutical Apparatus. % AndrewDunc AN,/ti«. 

 • M. D. Felloiv of the Royal College of Phyficians, and Royal SO" 

 ciety of Edinburgh, /md Ajfociate of the LAnnaan Society of Lon*^ 

 don. 8no. 720 Pagei, and 6 Plates, Edinburgh^ ii&OS. '■ 



Duncan's Edin- A HE coplous title page of this work informs the reader what 

 ^Tf S"''' ^'^' '^^ ^'^^ ^° exped in this new edition of a ftock book, the ex- 

 Cetlenf foundation of which was laid by Dr. Lewis m 17.53. 

 The tranllation of the Dublin Pharmacopoeia muft be.an ac- 

 ceptable addition, and the introdudory Epitome of Modetn' 

 Gl>emi/lry, a knowledge of which is indifpenfable to- thofe 

 ■who would onderftand Pharmacy as a fcience, or praclife it 

 with advantage as an art ; was loudly called for by the many 

 improvements made of late years in this branch of (eience. 



It would take up too much room to give the titles of the 

 feveral new tables, which are ailliifeful: and Dr.- D. appears 

 to have availed himfelf of every thing in the -field of modern 

 difcovery, or in the beft foreign Pharmacopoeias, that was con- 

 fiftent with the plan of the work. < 



Accum's lec- 

 tures on chc- 

 miitry. 



Mr. ACCUM, who has refigned his gratuitous fervice a** 

 Affiftant Chemical Operator in the Royal Inftitutipn, is about 

 to enter on a Courfe of Le6lures on Pradicar Chemiftry, and 

 its Application to Agriculture, Arts, and Manufadures, They 

 will cornprehend diftindl Series of Ledures on Popular Che- 

 miftry, Operative Chemiftry, Mineralogical Chemiftry, Agri- 

 cultural ChemiRrv, and Galvanifm. 



