Baumé - Elements Of Theoretical And Practical Pharmacy. At Simon, 1784, Period Binding.

BAUMÉ - Elements of theoretical and practical pharmacy. Fifth edition, revised, corrected & expanded. Containing all the fundamental operations of this art; with their definition, & an explanation of these operations by the principles of chemistry; the manner of choosing, preparing & mixing medicines; with remarks & reflections on each process; the means of recognizing falsified or altered medicines; the recipes for medicines newly put into use; the fundamental principles of several arts dependent on pharmacy: such as the art of the confectioner, & those of the preparation of scented waters & table liqueurs. With the exposition of the virtues & doses of medicines, following each article. Paris, Chez Simon, 1784; in-8, XL-887 pp., full marbled calf binding of the time, spine decorated with 5 nerves, edges painted in red. Antoine Baumé is a French pharmacist and chemist (1728-1804). In the 1795 edition of his Elements of Theoretical and Practical Pharmacy, he attempted to demonstrate that water was not composed of hydrogen and oxygen by refuting the experiments of Lavoisier and Laplace. He contributed several articles on chemistry with Philippe Macquer to the publication of an encyclopedic dictionary: Dictionnaire portable des arts et métiers, a work prefaced by Pierre Joseph Macquer, Philippe's brother.