compiled at the command of His Royal Highness the Duke, for the use of the military hospital abroad, during the late war

faithfully gathered from original Prescriptions, containing the most elegant Methods of Cure in Diseases ; to which are annexed useful Observations upon each Prescription ; the whole digested under proper Heads

or, the dispensatory for the use of the Royal Hospital in Edinburgh ; now transl. into English

containing 1. The theory and practice of pharmacy, 2. A distribution of medicinal simples according to their virtues and sensible qualities ..., 3. A full translation of the London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeias, 4. Directions for extemporaneous prescription, 5. A collection of cheap remedies for the use of the poor ; the whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations ; intended as a correction, and improvement of Quincy