The American new dispensatory : containing general principles of pharmaceutic chemistry ; pharmaceutic operations ; chemical analysis of the articles of materia medica ; materia medica, including several new and valuable articles, the production of the United States ; preparations and compositions ; with an appendix, containing medical prescriptions ; the nature and medical uses of the gases ; medical electricity ; galvanism ; an abridgment of Dr. Currie's reports on the use of water ; the cultivation of the poppy plant, and the method of preparing opium ; and several useful tables ; the whole compiled from the most approved authors, both European and American

Shared by Deniz Arslan • chemistry, pharmaceutical preparations • 1810

"Dr. Thacher ... has adopted for the basis of his work the Pharmacopoeia of Massachusetts, lately published by the Medical Society." - "Recommendation. Report [dated Oct. 14, 1809] of a committee of the Massachusetts Medical Society" (p. [3]) This committee revised the author's manuscript. Cf. Edward Kremers and George Urdang, Hist. of pharmacy, Philadelphia [1940] p. 268