Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1704

MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY Pharmacopoeia of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Larkin 1808 272 pp. 18.3 cm.

The first work of its kind to be published in the United States, this early pharmacopoeia, together with those of other New England states, provided the prototype for the first United States pharmacopoeia which was published in 1820 (see No. 1879). The purpose as stated in the Preface was "to point out those articles whose properties entitle them to be employed for the cure of diseases, with the best modes of preparing them."

See Related Record(s): 1879

Cited references: Austin 1222; Cushing M192