The Edinburgh new dispensatory : containing, I the elements of pharmaceutical chemistry : II The Materia Medica, or, An account of the different Substances employed in medicine : III the pharmaceutical preparations and medicinal compositions of the latest editions of the London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeias : with the addition of the most approved formulae, from the best foreign pharmacopoeias : the whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations, and enriched with the latest discoveries in natural history, chemistry, and medicine; with new tables of elective attractions, of antimon
The Edinburgh new dispensatory : containing, I the elements of pharmaceutical chemistry : II The Materia Medica, or, An account of the different Substances employed in medicine : III the pharmaceutical preparations and medicinal compositions of the latest editions of the London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeias : with the addition of the most approved formulae, from the best foreign pharmacopoeias : the whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations, and enriched with the latest discoveries in natural history, chemistry, and medicine; with new tables of elective attractions, of antimony, of mercury, &c : and several copperplates of the most convenient furnaces, and principal pharmaceutical instruments : being an improvement of the new dispensatory . cilitates the condenfation of the red. If we wifh to collectjncondenfible vapours, we receive them into a jar inverted underabalouof watt r or quickfilver, as directed in our Analyns of Vegetables by fiie. Befides thefe, there aie alfo required fome other kinds of lutes forjoining vefiels together in operations requiring a llrong heat, and for li-ning furnaces. Four parts of land and one of clay anfwers bed for lut-ing : but for lining the infide of furnaces, fix or feven paits of fand tocne of clay is neceflary, in order to prevent the contraction and conle-qweut cracking of the clay, which it molt readily does when ireed offund. ikliJch this lute immediately next to the lire,three parts, by weight,of charcoal to one of common clay, are fiilt mixed in a dry powder, andas1 much water is to be added as will make them into balls of theconfidence of fnow : thefe balls are be;*t very firm a:>u compact, by( . hammer, on the infide of the furnace, to the thicknefs of about one ]
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