640  Pharmacopoeias  and  Dispensatories.    { timber! lSK0' 
the  Massachusetts  Medical  Society.  Its  basis  was  the  newly  issued 
Pharmacopoeia  of  the  same  society  (which,  as  already  said,  was  the 
first  American  Pharmacopoeia,  1808),  and  was  dedicated  to  John 
Warren,  one  of  the  committee  on  revision  of  that  work.  This  Dis- 
pensatory was  issued  from  Boston,  and  titled  "  The  American  New 
Dispensatory,"  etc.  It  contained  529  pages,  the  contents  remind- 
ing one  forcibly  of  the  Dispensatories  of  to-day.  It  was  revised 
and  enlarged  four  times,  the  fourth  edition  appearing  in  1821. 
182J. — "  The  Eclectic  and  General  Dispensatory  "  appeared  in 
Philadelphia  from  an  anonymous  author,  the  title-page  simply 
carrying  the  information  that  it  is  "  by  an  American  physician." 
The  book  contains  624  pages  and  a  supplement  of  lithographic 
plates  and  apparatus.  This  book  had  no  connection  in  any  way 
with  modern  eclecticism. 
18 j j. — The  first  edition  of  the  "  Dispensatory  of  the  United  States 
of  America,"  by  Dr.  George  B.  Wood  and  Dr.  Franklin  Bache, 
Philadelphia,  appeared  in  1833.  It  contained  1,073  Pa§es>  anc*  con- 
sidered only  the  official  drugs  and  preparations.  In  1834,  the 
second  edition  (1,162  pages)  was  issued,  to  which  was  added  an 
appendix,  in  two  parts,  the  first  part  consisting  of  "  Drugs  and 
Medicines  not  Officinal,"  the  second  being  devoted  to  the  "Art  of 
Prescribing  Medicines."  Following  these,  new  editions  preceding 
1890  were  issued  as  follows : 
3d  edition  1836 
4th  "  1839 
5th  "  l843 
6th  "   1845 
7th  "   •  •  1847 
8th  "   1849 
9th  V   1851 
10th  "   i854 
nth  "   1858 
12th  "      .  '  1865 
13th  "   1875 
14th  "   1877 
15th  "   •  1883 
16th  "   1889 
After  the  fourteenth  edition,  the  work  was  continued  by  Dr.  H.  C. 
Wood,  Prof.  Joseph  P.  Remington  and  Prof.  S.  P.  Sadtler. 
184.8.  "A  Dispensatory  and  Therapeutical  Remembrancer,  second 
edition,"  by  John  Mayne  (England).    Revised  by  Dr.  R.  Eglesfeld 
