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, Meuc, Salmon, Lemery, Quincy, &c. But the latest and most esteemed are the Edinburgh and London dispensaries, and Dr Lewis's dispensary.

or Dispensatory, is likewise a magazine or office for selling medicines at prime cost to the poor. The college of physicians maintain three of these in London; one at the college itself in Warwick lane; another in St Peter's alley, Cornhill; and a third in St Martin's lane. Dispensaries have also been established in several of the principal towns in Scotland and England; particularly in Edinburgh, Dundee, and Kelso; as also at Newcastle upon Tyne. The first of these hath given rise to a course of Medical Lectures there, which promises to be of much advantage. tage to the students of medicine; and though the undertaking hath not been patronised by people of the first rank, yet the support of some generous and humane citizens hath made some progress towards rendering the institution permanent; and some hundreds of patients, who could not be admitted into the royal infirmary, have found relief from the medicines charitably bestowed on them in the dispensary.