Word: pharmacopoeias
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...hospital procedure has therefore been transformed. Moving quickly along, Crichton suggests that hospitals are larger now than they were before, that they now are clean, that there is now a wide variety of drugs to use in medicine (a great improvement over 1821 when snakeskins were part of the pharmacopoeia-a substance of doubtful value, according to Crichton) and that in general medical care is now more complex...
...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...
...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...