Pharmaceutical lexicon

A dictionary of pharmaceutical science. Containing a concise explanation of the various subjects and terms of pharmacy, with appropriate selections from the collateral sciences. Formulae for officinal, empirical and dietetic preparations; selections from the prescriptions of the most eminent physicians of Europe and America; an alphabetical list of diseases and their definitions; an account of the various modes in use for the preservation of dead bodies for interment or dissection; tables of signs and abbreviations, weights and measure, doses, antidotes to poisons, etc., etc., and as an item of curiosity, a few leaves from a dispensatory published in the seventeenth century

Designed as a guide for the pharmaceutist, druggist, physician, etc. By H. V. Sweringen, member of the american Pharmaceutical Association, etc.