Practical Manual Containing over Five Hundred Formulas, for the Use of Druggists, Perfumers, Manufacturers of Medicines, Etc., Many of which are Original, and were Never Before Published. [Druggists' Manual]

Rochester, N.Y: Press of Hebard, Tracy & Co., Book and Job Printers, 1860. First Edition. Small Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First edition. Scarce, only 6 in OCLC, not in Hoolihan's Atwater Catalogue (despite being printed in Rochester). Professionally rebacked, boards rubbed with corners exposed, quarter-sized discoloration on front board, a few pages foxed. 1860 Small Hard Cover. iv, [5]-217, [6] pp. Hundreds of recipes for household remedies and other useful concoctions, as well as proper medicines. Includes useful instructions and tables on various things such as: taking the specific gravity of liquids; alcohols and acids; medical terms and abbreviations; lists of goods and wholesale dealers for druggists.