Word: pharmacopoeia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...search for drugs from the sea, from five to seven years may well elapse from the underwater snipping of a sponge specimen to the marketing of an antibiotic. But the seafaring scientists are confident that eventually the seas will yield a whole new pharmacopoeia of valuable drugs...
...Welfare Department's Administration on Aging, which finances his work. DeVries adds the usual warning that indiscriminate, unsupervised exercise may be dangerous to potential heart-attack victims. By June he hopes to have laid a foundation for individual exercise prescriptions. "If we can develop the beginning of a pharmacopoeia of exercise," he said, "we will accomplish what we set out to do." And hearten panting joggers as well...
...editorial in the Boston psychedelic newspaper Avatar was to the point-and not all that far from the truth. Methedrine, a powerful amphetamine known to hippies as "speed," is fast becoming one of the freakiest and most dangerous ways of turning on in the drug users' pharmacopoeia...
...newest item in the pharmacopoeia is a concoction called STP, apparently named after the gasoline additive ("It makes your motor run better," say hippies). Similar to a chemical-warfare product code-named "BZ," STP can produce a 72-hour trip-up to six times the length of an LSD voyage-and generates the "blinding white light" of hallucinatory omniscience that many hippies claim is the be-all and end-all of the drug experience. Believed to be a chemical called 5-methoxy-NN-dime-thyltryptamine, STP cannot be treated, as LSD is, by use of chlorpromazine tranquilizers to ease...
...initials are for United States Pharmacopoeia, a 1,200-page volume, revised every five years, that is produced by a private, nonprofit association of physicians, pharmacists, chemists and biologists. Congress has repeatedly specified that U.S.P. standards, which now cover 900 pharmaceutical products, shall be accepted as minimum qualifications by Government agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration...