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pharmacopoeia [far-ma-koh-pee-a] Noun an authoritative book containing a list of medicinal drugs along with their uses, preparation and dosages [Greek pharmakopoiia art of preparing drugs] pharmacopoeia a book, usually of an official nature, containing a list of approved drugs and medicines, with information regarding their properties, preparation, and use. Also called antidotary. See also: Drugs2. a pharmacist’s stock of drugs. a complete listing of all drugs and information concerning them. See also: Remedies
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In his Indian captivity, moreover, he had gained much knowledge of the properties of native herbs and roots; nor did he conceal from his patients that these simple medicines, Nature's boon to the untutored savage, had quite as large a share of his own confidence as the European Pharmacopoeia, which so many learned doctors had spent centuries in elaborating. She should have change, fresh air, gaiety; the most delightful remedies in the pharmacopoeia," Mr. Chillip often asked me to go and see him (he was a widower, having, some years before that, lost a little small light-haired wife, whom I can just remember connecting in my own thoughts with a pale tortoise-shell cat), it was but seldom that I enjoyed the happiness of passing an afternoon in his closet of a surgery; reading some book that was new to me, with the smell of the whole Pharmacopoeia coming up my nose, or pounding something in a mortar under his mild directions. |
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, preparation of drugs, from pharmakopoios, preparing drugs : pharmako-, pharmaco- + poiein, to make; see kwei-2 in Indo-European roots.]
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