Four Thousand Years of Pharmacy: An Outline History of Pharmacy and the Allied Sciences

Book Description

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, light fraying at head, stripe of lightening at spine, small bur at top of text block, owner inscription on ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. Coated red cloth boards, gilt lettering, frontispiece. 8vo. xv, 665pp. Illus (b/w plates). Bibliography. Chronological Tables. Index. LaWall was Dean of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science. The first American history of pharmacology (reprinted a decade later as, "The Curious Lore of Drugs and Medicines". Overall, a rather handsome copy.

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