A polyglot index of all the principal articles in the materia medica

In Latin, English, French, German, Swedish and Norwegian-Danish, with separate indexes referring to all. With separate indexes referring to all. And with translation and full explanation in each language of equivalents of metric weights and measures, of incompatible medicines, of the heroic medicines and dose of each, and of poisons and their antidotes, besides other useful information for the pharmacist and the physician

By Henry T. Hedges, fifteen years a practical pharmacist, dealing largely with foreigners of different nationalities