The Dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in London: with some notes on the manner of composition, and remarks on the changes made in most of the officinal medicines, from their first prescribers down to the present practice.

QUINCY, John.

Published by W. Bowyer for R. Knaplock, B. Took a.o.,, London,, 1721

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First edition of the translation and revision by John Quincy of the Pharmacopoeia of the Royal Society. A second edition appeared in 1727, a third in 1747.John Quincy (d. 1722) was an apothecary. He wrote or translated 11 works, the most famous of which were his Pharmacopoeia Officinalis & Extemporanea or A Compleat English Dispensatory, first published in 1718, and his medical dictionary Lexicon Physico-medicum of 1719. Quincy's Compleat English Dispensatory went through 12 editions before being extensively revised in 1749 by William Lewis, who had translated in English the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia the year before. Lewis The New Dispensatory … Intended as a Correction and Improvement of Quincy was in its turn improved upon, to become The Edinburgh New Dispensatory of 1786 and later The London Dispensatory of 1811. Quincy's writings reflect his support of contemporary iatrophysical theories based on the mechanics and scientific experiments of his day to promote the good health of humanity. He rejected the Galenic notion of spirits residing in the body and was vehemently against any form of medical quackery or empiricism.Good copy.l N. Howard-Jones, John Quincy, M.D. [d.1722], Apothecary and Iatrophysical Writer: A Study of his Works, Including his Commentary on Santorio, his Compleat English Dispensatory, and his Lexicon Physico-medicum , in: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 6/2 (1951), pp. 149-175. Full calf in two colors, blind ruled and tooled with ornamental borders and corner pieces on both sides, gilt binding edges; re-backed: ribbed spine with title lettered in gold. With engraved frontispiece of the building of the Dispensatory of the Royal society at London, woodcut vignette on title-page, head- and tailpieces and initials. Pages: [18], 362, [16] pp.

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• Title: The Dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in London: with some notes on the manner of composition, and remarks on the changes made in most of the officinal medicines, from their first prescribers down to the present practice.
• Publisher: W. Bowyer for R. Knaplock, B. Took a.o.,, London,
• Publication Date: 1721