"Pharmaceutical" Quotes from Famous Books
... her own pleasure; she was deeply attached to me, and lavished on me her maternal caresses. I was now about nineteen years old, but was only occupied about the house in writing for her, or in helping her in her pharmaceutical experiments. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The World's Greatest Books, Vol X • Various
... PHARMACEUTICAL.—The word "Pharmacon" can be found in all Greek lexicons. It is probably of Oriental extraction. It originally meant any medicine taken internally or externally, and apparently its original signification was good—or, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886 • Various
... and under strong sales pressure, made space for a single coffin somewhere at the rear of the store, now rushed to the telephones like touts with a direct pronouncement from a horse. Everyone who possibly could got into the act. Grocery supermarkets put in casket departments. The Association of Pharmaceutical Retailers, who felt they had some claim to priority, tried to get court injunctions to keep caskets out of service stations, but were unsuccessful because the judges were all out buying caskets. Beauty parlors showed real ingenuity in merchandising. ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — And All the Earth a Grave • Carroll M. Capps (AKA C.C. MacApp)
... expert to the physician, which his foreign confrere has so long held with credit and even distinction. In France, for example, M. Mehu, whose name is familiar to readers of this journal, is looked upon as one of the leading authorities on morbid urine and its analysis, and yet a list of goodly pharmaceutical papers shows that, as the medical analyst, he has not forgotten ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 • Various
... of vision (duism) remarked by most invalid veterans in their occasional adversaria, is unconscious of their parental dignity, and by no means to be confounded with the referees in astronomical or pharmaceutical cases, or with ordinary omphalopsychites. Whatever be or not be the result of these investigations and calculations, it is consolatory to the student of proportional hemispheres to remark that, whichever way the sophist may ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 24, September 10, 1870 • Various
... street of Mariposa is called Missinaba Street and the county Missinaba County. But these names do not really matter. Nobody uses them. People simply speak of the "lake" and the "river" and the "main street," much in the same way as they always call the Continental Hotel, "Pete Robinson's" and the Pharmaceutical Hall, "Eliot's Drug Store." But I suppose this is just the same in every one else's town as in mine, so I need lay ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town • Stephen Leacock
... authority or court of reference composed of representatives of the laboratory of the Inland Revenue, of the Local Government Board, the Board of Agriculture, the General Medical Council, the Institute of Chemistry, the Pharmaceutical Society, of other scientific men and of the trading and manufacturing community, who should have the duty of fixing standards of quality and purity of food to be confirmed by a secretary of ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... phencyclidine (PCP, angel dust, hog), phencyclidine analogues (PCE, PCPy, TCP), and others (psilocybin, psilocyn). Hashish is the resinous exudate of the cannabis or hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Heroin is a semisynthetic derivative of morphine. Mandrax is a trade name for methaqualone, a pharmaceutical depressant. Marijuana is the dried leaf of the cannabis or hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Methaqualone is a pharmaceutical depressant, referred to as mandrax in Southwest Asia and Africa. Narcotics are drugs that relieve pain, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... taken as a starting point just here. He is known in the history of medicine "for the impetus he gave to the development of pharmaceutical chemistry, but he was also the author of a visionary and theosophic system of philosophy." He believed in the influence of the stars upon men, but he enlarged upon the old astrologic faiths. "He believed the human body was endowed with a double magnetism, one ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Modern Religious Cults and Movements • Gaius Glenn Atkins
... their inhabitants. Let us say it to the glory of La Champagne, this love is warranted. Provins, one of the most charming towns in all France, rivals Frangistan and the valley of Cashmere; not only does it contain the poesy of Saadi, the Persian Homer, but it offers many pharmaceutical treasures to medical science. The crusades brought roses from Jericho to this enchanting valley, where by chance they gained new charms while losing none of their colors. The Provins roses are known the world ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Pierrette • Honore de Balzac
... it?' Albert asked, glancing at it. 'Medical and Pharmaceutical Department, isn't ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Hugo - A Fantasia on Modern Themes • Arnold Bennett
... the pharmaceutical products? From where and when would they arrive? Food and bedding would go a long way, but were hardly sufficient to start ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — My Home In The Field of Honor • Frances Wilson Huard
... sense it refers to combinations of fatty acids with metallic bases, a definition which includes not only sodium stearate, oleate and palmitate, which form the bulk of the soaps of commerce, but also the linoleates of lead, manganese, etc., used as driers, and various pharmaceutical preparations, e.g., mercury oleate (Hydrargyri oleatum), zinc oleate and lead plaster, together with a number of other metallic salts of fatty acids. Technically speaking, however, the meaning of the term soap is considerably restricted, being generally limited to the combinations of fatty ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Handbook of Soap Manufacture • W. H. Simmons
... and Columella, and pharmaceutical handling of plants, there is a good deal of thoughtful observation of Nature in ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and - Modern Times • Alfred Biese
... the Middle Ages came the father of modern pharmaceutical chemistry, Basil Valentine. Already the spirit that was to mean so much for scientific investigation in the Renaissance period was abroad. Valentine, however, owes little to anything except his own investigations, and ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Old-Time Makers of Medicine • James J. Walsh
... of the Leadbeater estate in 1933, these two adjoining buildings were acquired by the Landmarks Society of Alexandria and the contents purchased by the American Pharmaceutical Association. Under the direction of Mrs. Robert M. Reese the buildings have been restored and opened to the public as a museum with displays generously lent by the American Pharmaceutical Association. Entrance ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Seaport in Virginia - George Washington's Alexandria • Gay Montague Moore
... especially in Greece itself. Upon this foundation the knowledge of anatomy and the science of medicine has been built up.[14] But in many other ways the practice of mummification exerted far-reaching effects, directly and indirectly, upon the development of medical and pharmaceutical knowledge and methods.[15] ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith
... preparations of plants used only for their specific curative methods are to be got exclusively from the Homoeopathic chemist, unless gathered at first hand. These, not being officinal, fail to find a place on the shelves of the ordinary Pharmaceutical druggist. Nevertheless, when suitably employed, they are of singular efficacy in curing the maladies to which they stand akin by the law of similars. For convenience of distinction here, the symbol ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie
... export trade were minimised. The centripetal tendency, however, did not stop here. In 1916, the two pre-existing cartels were combined with Griesheim Elektron, Weilerter Meer, and various smaller companies in one gigantic cartel, representing a nationalisation of the entire German dye and pharmaceutical industry." The combination was extremely close. Profits of the companies were pooled, and after being ascertained each year on common principles were divided according to agreed percentages. Each factory ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — by Victor LeFebure • J. Walker McSpadden
... a pastime that they called "drug store", setting up display counters, selling chemical, cosmetic and other compounds to imaginary customers, filling prescriptions and variously conducting themselves in a pharmaceutical manner. They were in the midst of affairs when Penrod interrupted his partner and himself ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Penrod and Sam • Booth Tarkington
... world's largest licit producer of opium for the pharmaceutical trade, but an undetermined quantity of opium is diverted to illicit international drug markets; major transit country for illicit narcotics produced in neighboring countries; illicit producer of hashish and methaqualone; produced 47 metric tons of ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... enough to see through its thin artifices to the idea that diseases get well without being "cured," should now be the main support of the tottering poison-cure doctrine. It has unquestionably helped to teach wise people that nature heals most diseases without help from pharmaceutic art, but it continues to persuade fools that art can arrest them ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist) |