Author: Edward Quin Thornton

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-19

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9780331386264

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Excerpt from Dose-Book and Manual of Prescription-Writing With a List of the Official Drugs and Preparations, and Many of the Newer Remedies With Their Doses While it is the Object of the committee to recognize all the best and most generally used remedial agent's, they must Of necessity omit many valuable drugs and prepara. Tions for the following among other reasons: (i) From the fact that they have not been sufficiently or long enough used to justify their positive approval (2) that they are not in general use in all parts Of the country; (3) that they are proprietary articles. The knowledge that a drug or prepara. Tion is not official does not argue against its use, for there are many valuable therapeutic agents not accorded the dig nity of a position in the Pharmacopoeia. The value of such a book will at once be recognized, as it gives uniformity to all official preparations. Such a work should receive the support and encouragement Of every true devotee of medi Cine and pharmacy, for without a standard for making each preparation our pharmacy would be in a state Of great con fusion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Dose-Book and Manual of Prescription-Writing with a List of the Official Drugs and Preparations, and Many of the Newer Remedies with Their Doses (Classic Reprint) written by Edward Quin Thornton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Dose-Book and Manual of Prescription-Writing With a List of the Official Drugs and Preparations, and Many of the Newer Remedies With Their Doses While it is the Object of the committee to recognize all the best and most generally used remedial agent's, they must Of necessity omit many valuable drugs and prepara. Tions for the following among other reasons: (i) From the fact that they have not been sufficiently or long enough used to justify their positive approval (2) that they are not in general use in all parts Of the country; (3) that they are proprietary articles. The knowledge that a drug or prepara. Tion is not official does not argue against its use, for there are many valuable therapeutic agents not accorded the dig nity of a position in the Pharmacopoeia. The value of such a book will at once be recognized, as it gives uniformity to all official preparations. Such a work should receive the support and encouragement Of every true devotee of medi Cine and pharmacy, for without a standard for making each preparation our pharmacy would be in a state Of great con fusion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.