Word: pharmacopoeia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army doctors wrote the first U.S. pharmacopoeia (1778) and the first U.S. bacteriology text (Sternberg...
...Unknowns. At least five other vitamins have been identified chemically,* but no one knows how many more there may be, or what they do. For the vitamins not yet identified, concentrates are made from a list of weird items reminiscent of a Chinese pharmacopoeia: yeast, wheat germ, defatted milk, rice polishings, grass juice and liver extract...
...acres of belladonna to be planted this year in east central states, notably Pennsylvania. In 1939 scarcely a handful of belladonna seed could be found in the U.S., but that was carefully grown and made possible a good 1942 crop whose product, used for surgical therapy, was above U.S. Pharmacopoeia standards...
...work did not prevent his participation in many organizations connected with medical research. Professor Weiss was chairman of the University committee on Pharmacotherapy, member of the committee for Revision of the U.S. Pharmacopoeia, and of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Association...
...jungle. He was in charge of an expedition, financed by Philanthropist Sayre Merrill, 1) to worm from the Indians the black magic of curare cooking, 2) to bring back to the U. S. enough curare for laboratory use, 3) to bring back any other useful drugs from the Indian pharmacopoeia. Rancher Gill succeeded in all three tasks. The best parts of his somewhat flamboyantly written book (Sample: "The days streaked by like frightened parrots") report how the searcher succeeded, how he won the confidence of the suspicious brujos (witch men), how he learned the secret ingredients, the magic ritual...