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 . ] Chap. II. Pharmaceutical apparatus. 53 one inch and a half: the other lute is fpread over this to about thethicknefs of half an inch ; and this too is beat folid by means of ahammer, and allowed to dry llowly, that all cracks a«id Allures may beprevented. After the body of the furnace is thus lined, the vent isapplied, and lined in the fame manner ; and the whole being dried, whichrequires a long time, a fire is kindled in the furnace, which is graduallyheated for a day or two, and is then raifed to the greateft intensity : Bythefe means the whole luting acquires a hardnefs equal to that of free-ilone. Thefe are the lutes recommended and ufed by Dr Black; and,except for fome operations in metallurgy, he feems to have been the firltwho thought of employing charcoal as an ingredient for the lining offurnaces. The few fimple lutes, here defcribed, will be found to anfwer all thepurpofes of the more operofe ccmpoiitions, recommended for thefe in-tentions by the chemical writers. Ves sels
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