Page-for-page reprint of the Bremen/Leipzig edition of 1761 which was published after the important 5th revision of the famous Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia, edited in Edinburgh in 1756.
The Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia was one of the most influential works of its kind. Its various editions went through many editions in Great Britain an on the Continent by publishers in Gottingen, Bremen, Leipzig, Rotterdam, Venice, Milan, Geneva, and translations of it appeared in Dutch and German.
Ad. 2: In the 18th century, beyond the pharmacopoeias, the dispensatories and the conspectuses, more specialist needs resulted in a range of other publications in Britain. These included a range of hospital and paupers formularies and pharmacopoeias. The only British hospital formulary known to have been published abroad was that of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, highlighting the reputation of Edinburgh physicians and medical training during this period.
Our copy belongs to the first German edition. In the To the reader is stated that, apart from some additions, the prescriptions follow the instructions of the Edinburg Pharmacopoeia.
Top of spine and one corner damaged. D.L. Cowen, The Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia, in: Medical History, 1 (1957), pp. 123-139, 345.Ad. 2: Stuart Anderson, "The rejection of tradition in favour of experience: The publication of British pharmaceutical texts abroad 1670 to 1890, in: Pharmaceutical historian, 47/2 (2017), p. 23.