Excerpt from A Compend of Pharmacy The collection of substances employed in medicine is called materia medica: the substances themselves are known as drugs. Pharmacy is the science of preparing these substances; therapy is the science of applying them to the treatment of the sick. These three branches are properly classified under the general head pharmacology, or the science OF drugs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a ...
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Excerpt from A Compend of Pharmacy The collection of substances employed in medicine is called materia medica: the substances themselves are known as drugs. Pharmacy is the science of preparing these substances; therapy is the science of applying them to the treatment of the sick. These three branches are properly classified under the general head pharmacology, or the science OF drugs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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