dispensatories
- plural of dispensatory.
Example Sentences
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Many other dispensatories, guides, collections, and records of medical customs and concoctions, remain to us even of the earliest days.
From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Earle, Alice Morse
As items of materia medica, leeches were described in dispensatories, or compilations of medicaments, and sold by apothecaries, both to physicians and directly to patients.
From Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology by Appel, Toby
They applied that science in the practice of medicine, being the first to publish pharmacopoeias or dispensatories, and to include in them mineral preparations.
From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by Draper, John William
This gentleman has got a smattering of physic, and I am afraid tampers with his own constitution, by means of Brookes's Practice of Physic, and some dispensatories, which he is continually poring over.
From Travels through France and Italy by Smollett, T. (Tobias)
The infusion of Wormwood makes a useful fomentation for inflammatory pains, and, combined with chamomile flowers and bay leaves, it formed the anodyne fomentation of the earlier dispensatories.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas
