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1698 W. Salmon Rebuke to Authors of State of Physick in London 6 Tthe Art of Prescribing (which now makes a Doctor) is the easiest part of the whole Art of Physick, and easiest to be learned, much more easy I am sure than Pharmacology, and Chirurgery, which our pitiful, proud, ignorant Doctors so mightily scorn and despise.

1704 T. Curteis Ess. Preserv. & Recovery Health 164 So 'twould carry me too far into the boundless field of Pharmacology.

1712 F. Guybon Ess. Growth Empiricism 17 Under the third Branch of Pharmacology is compriz'd the Knowledge of the general Nature, Virtues, and Operation of Medicines.

1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Pharmacology, a Treatise concerning the Art of preparing Medicines.

1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 3 576 This work..answers the requisites of a good practical Pharmacology.

1854 Abstr. Papers Royal Soc. 1850–54 6 358 Dr. Pereira was the distinguished and highest representative of that science which involves the history, properties, and uses of drugs, better known on the Continent than in England by its name of Pharmacology.

1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 17 Pharmacology is the general term employed to embrace these three divisions [Pharmacy, Therapeutics, Materia Medica].

1883 Nature 5 Apr. 542/2 The knowledge of the action of remedies, or Pharmacology.

1926 Amer. Mercury Mar. 267/2 No science benefited more abundantly from the fertilization going on everywhere than pharmacology and pharmacotherapy.

1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 877/2 Recent advances in pharmacology and therapeutics have altered the face of contemporary medical practice, and there is no doubt that the chemotherapeutic era has been established.

1992 Independent 2 Apr. 5/2 Dr Tony Dickenson, senior lecturer in pharmacology.., said that he first heard of its abuse in February when two students spoke to him of friends who were abusing ketamine. ‘It has become the new agent on the streets. The presumption is that, as well as the dissociation that people experience, they are seeking the unpleasant effects.’

2000 Isis 91 336/1 Pita's magisterial study explores the elements of illuminism, romanticism and positivism in Portuguese pharmacy and pharmacology throughout its history and up to the present.

2001 Toronto Star 12 Jan. a19/3 The cry for assisted suicide is growing at the same time that medical science and pharmacology have developed pain management to a level never before attained.

1852 N.Y. Jrnl. Pharmacy 1 169 As matico is daily attracting more and more the attention of practitioners, its pharmacology demands consideration.

1893 Philos. Trans. 1892 (Royal Soc.) B. 183 201 We have made a very large number of observations on the pharmacology of the mammalian heart.

1931 Chem. Abstr. 25 349 (heading) The pharmacology of urochloralic acid with special regard to the diuretic action of the sodium salt of this acid.

1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 950/2 Its pharmacology was better understood than is the case with other drugs of this class, and more was known about its potential side-effects.

1984 Jrnl. Substance Abuse Treatm. 2 60/1 Also included is a brief but sufficiently detailed section on brain chemistry and the basic pharmacology of synaptic activity.

1997 M. Collin & J. Godfrey Altered State 8 One way to chart the evolution of Ecstasy culture..is through its pharmacology.