The Art of Dispensing

A treatise on the methods and processes involved in compounding medical prescriptions - This book was originally first published 1888. This is not a homeopathy textbook but is fascinating study for homeopaths because of the ingredients and substances used in the early days of medicine. There is one chapter of 6 pages on homeopathic dispensing including information about tinctures and making compressed tablets

Property in prescriptions, weights and measures, oleaginous substances, emulsifying agents, oil of balsam, thymolis, pancreatin, quinine sulph, gum acacia, bari chloridi, ointments and pastes, lotions, nebulae, ordo serum, table of solubilities. silver oxide

Hard back 550 pages from 1937 eleventh edition