Word: pharmacopoeia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's Dr. William Samuel Inman, eye surgeon and psychoanalyst, has some ideas on curing warts that might have come right out of the Mark Twain pharmacopoeia. In the issue of Lancet that reached the U.S. last week, Inman told of a 13 -year-old boy who came to him with ten warts on his thumb. Dr. Inman told him to touch the tip of his tongue to each wart every morning because saliva is peculiarly poisonous to warts, but not to tell anybody. The warts went away...
...Religion," said Marx, "is the opium of the people"-and he certainly never expected it to become part of the political pharmacopoeia of the first Marxist state. Yet Stalin's Russia has made good use of the once-banned Orthodox Church in Europe and the Middle East, and recently appeared as the defender of the faith in China as well...
...thesis was the subject of a Cornell Medical College conference on therapy, reported last week in the New York State Journal of Medicine. Said outspoken Dr. William Dock, Cornell pathology professor, leading off the discussion: "Absolute bed rest kills more patients than anesthesia and all the drugs in the pharmacopoeia added together." Yet doctors prescribe it and medical texts give no warning of its dangers...
...grass, tea or blue sage. Cigarets made from it are killers, goof-butts, joy-smokes, giggle-smokes or reefers. The word marijuana is of Mexican origin and means "the weed that intoxicates." It is made from the Indian hemp plant, a spreading green bush resembling sumac. Known to the pharmacopoeia as Cannabis sativa, it is a source of important paint ingredients and rope fiber as well as narcotics. It can be grown easily almost anywhere, hence tends to be inexpensive, as drugs go. Its recent prices (10? to 50? a cigaret) have placed it beneath the dignity of big-time...
...profession was his recipes-to a pharmacist, a recipe is not a combination of drugs (that is the physician's province) but the method of making the combination hang together. Dr. Lascoff collected recipes old and new, developed many of his own. He was on the U.S. Pharmacopoeia's committee for the last four editions (a new one is published every ten years), started and edited the American Pharmaceutical Association's Recipe Book through three editions, and edited Drug Topics' column of advice to druggists...