PORTABLE DISPENSARY. Index to the Portable Dispensary, containing directions for the proper application of medicines usually contained therein. Fourth edition, corrected and enlarged. 23, [1]p. Stitched as issued in original drab wrappers, hand titled ‘directions for domestic medicines &c’ on the upper cover. Foxing to the inner covers, with slight transfer across to the title-page. 12mo. printed and sold by William Phillips, George Yard, Lombard Street. 1819. ~ “In the following pages, the most common and familiar names of the several medicines, proper to be kept in the Portable Dispensary, or Medicine Chest, are set down in alphabetical order; a brief account of their virtues, and the cases in which they are usually prescribed, are given, after which follows the dose, and (where necessary) the manner of administering or applying the medicine.” It concludes with remedies for an overdose, with ‘six grains of emetic tartar’ struck through. Portable dispensaries were variously advertised as for the country practitioner, and for the colonies and abroad. A rare work, with only one copy of the 1795 edition recorded in ESTC N54621, Trinity College (USA), and 3 copies of a London printed 1801 edition, and one copy of an 1801 Nottingham printed edition. This 1819 edition is unrecorded. 1801: Cambridge, Wellcome Library; Nat Lib Medicine America. The BL also records an 1801 edition - Nottingham: Printed by Burbage and Stretton, Long-Row, and noting as “Prepared and sold, by Thomas Hawksley, chemist, Nottingham.”