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DISPENSARY

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or Dispensatory, denotes a book containing the method of preparing the various kinds of medicines used in pharmacy. Such are those of Bauderon, Quercetan, Zwelfer, Charas, Bates, Me- fue, Salmon, Lemery, Quincy, &c. but the latest and most esteemed are the Edinburgh and London Dis- pensatories.

Dispensatory, is likewise a maga- zine or office for selling medicines at prime cost to the poor.