The art of dispensing a treatise on the methods and processes involved in compounding medical prescriptions with dictionaries of abbreviations and terms used in British and foreign prescriptions, incompatibles and new remedies, and numerous memoranda for
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
21.10.2020
Verlag
Alpha EditionsSeitenzahl
606
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/15.7/4 cm
Gewicht
1122 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-93-5418-128-3
A working manual for the dispensary's exacting art. Practical, precise, indispensable for pharmacy. Peter MacEwan's The art of dispensing distils the methods and processes involved in compounding medical prescriptions into a rigorous, hands-on pharmaceutical compounding guide and medical prescription handbook. Clear procedural entries lead from formulae to finished preparations, while compiled glossaries explain terms used in British and foreign prescriptions. Extensive abbreviations and memoranda are presented with a clarity that turns technical shorthand into usable instruction. As a daily dispensary reference manual it provides a compact prescription abbreviations dictionary and a practical drug incompatibility chart; where ambiguity once caused error, MacEwan supplies precise signposts. The work also brings together a methodical new remedies compendium and pragmatic memoranda for prescribers and dispensers, shaping it into a trustworthy pharmacy students resource and a professional dispensers toolkit for those training or practising in the field. Its memoranda stress clarity in labelling and measurement, emphasising practical safeguards and best practice around compatibility and dosing. Glossaries of foreign terms and common abbreviations make the treatise especially useful where British prescriptions meet Continental or colonial practice. For students, apprentices and early-career pharmacists the book supplies a concise, practical frame for laboratory technique; for practising dispensers it functions as a quick-reference companion in the dispensary. Beyond practical use, the book preserves a way of working central to Victorian medical practices and forms an important witness in British pharmacy history. Its technical vocabulary, decision-making notes and memoranda belong equally to medical scholarship and to curious readers drawn to classic pharmacy literature. Collectors and libraries will value it as a foundational piece for any pharmaceutical science collection, while casual readers gain a vivid window into the operations of a bygone dispensary and the responsibilities borne by its staff. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today; a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.
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