pharmaceuticsn.
/ˌfɑːməˈs(j)uːtɪks/, U.S. /ˌfɑrməˈsudɪks/ Treatment with drugs; pharmacy; the practice or study of the manufacture, formulation, and dispensing of drugs. Cf. pharmaceutic n. 1.
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pharmaceutic?1541
pharmaceutics1684
pharmacology1698
materia medica1771
pharmacognosy1859
pharmacognosis1868
pharmacopedics1901
1684 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Pract. Physick (rev. ed.) Pharmaceuticks, the part of Physick that cureth with Medicines.
1749 J. Barrow Dict. Medicum Universale Pharmacutica,..pharmaceutics, or that part of medicine which gives the description of medicines, and teaches the right method of exhibiting them.
1827 Lancet 17 Nov. 250/2 The following are the ordinary professorships established in almost all German universities: anatomy, physiology, chemistry, botany, pathology and therapeutics, and surgery.
1851 Internat. Mag. Lit., Art, & Sci. Feb. 324/1 Some knowledge of chemistry is implied in their manufacture of porcelain; some knowledge of physiology, pathology, pharmaceutics and surgery, in their division of the medical art.
1869 New Sydenham Soc. Year-bk. Med. 442 (heading) General Pharmaceutics.
1935 Pacific Affairs 8 317 Pharmaceutics..is the first aspect of an indigenous system of therapeutics to be subjected to study.
1974 Nature 6 Sept. p. xi/1 (advt.) Applications are invited for the post of Senior Lecturer in the Department of Pharmaceutics commencing January 1, 1975.
1998 New Scientist 7 Feb. 80/1 (advt.) A leading research centre in the field of physical pharmaceutics, we possess key expertise in supercritical fluid technology with current research funding in excess of £1.5m.
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