The Chemists' and Dispensers' Vade Mecum
by William Canning
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John Davis, 1887. This is the long title as given on the title page: "The Chemists' and Dispensers' Vade Mecum: medical, chemical, and pharmecutical; or, things worth knowing in pharmacy, materia medica, and therapeutics, containing a key to dispensing difficulties which occur in physicians' prescriptions, with practical solutions by various members of the trade; also hints on prescribing, management of leeches, medicated lozenges, together with a large selection of useful formulary." Green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine , gilt an dblack decoration to the front board, all edges red. xvi, 344 pages including ads at the rear of the book, also more adverts on the endpapers and some at the front of the book. 5 X 7.5 inches. Very good book,. Second Edition.
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- Bookseller
- Jacques Gander (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004989
- Title
- The Chemists' and Dispensers' Vade Mecum
- Author
- William Canning
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Davis
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1887
- Keywords
- Medicine ; Pharmacy ; Chemists ; Pharmecuticals ; Leeches
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Jacques Gander
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Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire
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