ELEMENTS OF CHEMISTRY; Including the Recent Discoveries and Doctrines of the Science by Edward Turner, M.D., F.R.S., etc. / Fifth American from the Fifth London edition / With Notes and Emendations by Franklin Bache, M.D.
Philadelphia: DeSilver, Thomas & Co., 1833. Tables, formulae, engravings. Fifth American from the Fifth London edition. Leather. Thick 8vo (7 3/4" x 4 7/8" x 2"), full mottled sheep with label on spine, illustrated with many B&W in-text figures, formulae, and tables; Appendix, Index, xix, [xx] + 682 pages, [1] Errata. Weight: 1 lb. 7 oz. Good + / None. Item #8737
Tight copy with solid text block. Leather and label are worn on surfaces and edges. Moderate uniform toning and occasional light stains to paper. Foredges of paper quite browned. No notes, underlining, or annotations. Previous owner's small bookplate on front pastedown.
Prof Edward Turner MD, FRS, FRSE, FRCPE (1796 – 1837) was a Jamaican-born, British physician and chemist, known for his work on atomic weights, and as a populariser of the atomic theory of Dalton. He was the author of a popular Chemistry textbook that was the first to incorporate chemical symbols and formulae as well as organic chemistry.
His reviser, Dr. Franklin Bache (1792 – 1864), was a prominent American physician and expert on chemistry and pharmacopeias: Professor of Chemistry in the Franklin Institute (1826-32), the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (1831-41), thence to Jefferson Medical College.
In 1819, Bache published a "System of Chemistry for the Use of Students of Medicine"; and in connection with Dr. George Wood, he prepared in 1830, a Pharmacopoeia that was adopted by a national convention of physicians, and became the basis of the present U. S. Pharmacopoeia and U. S. Dispensatory.
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