单词 | pharmacopoeia |
释义 | pharmacopoeiapharmacopeian. 1. An authoritative or official treatise containing listings of approved drugs with their formulations, standards of purity and strength, and uses. Frequently in titles of such works. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > pharmacy > [noun] > pharmacopoeia dispensatory1566 pharmacopoeia1618 receipt book1647 dispensary1721 formulary1823 code1846 B.P.1898 U.S.P.1909 1618 T. Bretnor tr. A. Sala Opiologia viii. 42 The second Laudanum is that which Quercetanus appointeth in his Pharmacopæa. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. iv. i. i. 434 That infinite variety of medicines which I find in euery Pharmacopea. a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 22 Pharmacopaeia's or Antidataries or several Countries. 1706 D. Defoe Caledonia iii. 56 The Laws in Mists and Darkness, they make clear, And Physick thrives in spight of wholsome Air; pharmacopoea, void of simples, Lives, And Surgery in barren Practice thrives. 1776 E. Griffith Barber of Seville i. iv. 11 Methinks the Pharmacopeia might furnish us some little innocent means. 1791 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 81 347 In the London Pharmacopœia of 1788, this powder is called Pulvis antimonialis. 1866 W. T. Brande & G. W. Cox Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (new ed.) II. 881/1 Previous to the year 1863, three Pharmacopœias were extant in Great Britain, viz. those of the Colleges of Physicians of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin. In 1863 a British Pharmacopœia was compiled by the Medical Council of the kingdom, and sanctioned as a substitute for its predecessor. 1868 A. K. H. Boyd Lessons Middle Age 37 All the doctors in Britain and all the medicines in the pharmacopœia could make nothing of such a case. 1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders III. v. 83 It had soothed her perturbed spirit better than all the opiates in the pharmacopoeia. 1924 Amer. Mercury Dec. 427/2 In order to get the minimum daily doses of quinine recommended by the Pharmacopeia as an anti-malarial, it would be necessary to take about twenty ounces of Hostetter's Bitters daily. 1955 Sci. News Let. 26 Mar. 201/3 The Pharmacopeia is a book which provides the standards for the most important medicines used in the United States and many Latin American countries. Established in 1820, it is revised every five years by a national voluntary committee of medical and pharmaceutical experts. 2003 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 36 97/1 Within the scope of pharmacological literature, Cowan includes pharmacopoeias, dispensatories, herbals, [etc.]. 2. A collection or stock of drugs. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > collection or stock of apothecary1561 dispensatory1654 dispensary1710 pharmacopoeia1721 codex1819 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Pharmacopœa, a Dispensary or Collection of Medicines. 1745 Philos. Trans. 1744–5 (Royal Soc.) 43 262 As the contra Rabiem Powder now stands in our Pharmacopœia, it is compounded of two Drugs only. 1795 T. Holcroft Deserted Daughter ii. iii. 20 You, boy, you, little as you suspect it, include within yourself a whole pharmacopoeia of malady and mischief! 1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xx. 246 Then moistens her dewlaps With..each panacea From the Pharmacopeia. 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. i. 15 An opiate draught which the old Highlander had administered, from some decoction of herbs in his pharmacopeia . View more context for this quotation 1877 F. G. Heath Fern World 42 Ferns have..a greater repute as items in the pharmacopoeia of the herbalist. 1931 Amer. Mercury Feb. 183/2 A root that happens to look like a man has curative powers; tigers' claws, ground-up pebbles..and other equally absurd remedies make up the pharmacopoeia. 1955 Times 30 Aug. 9/2 His personal demands on science may not run beyond colour television and a pharmacopoeia of vaccines against all known diseases. 1987 J. Franklin Molecules of Mine (1988) x. 124 The psychiatrist had to ‘shop around’ through his pharmacopoeia, trying first this drug and then that one, adjusting the dosage according to instinct and symptoms. 1999 M. Silcott Rave Amer. ii. 17 In the seventies, a guiltless pharmacopoeia—including cocaine, speed, sexy downers like Quaaludes, ‘psychedelic-amphetamines’ like MDA and MDMA, and mind-benders like PCP (angel dust)—poured into the club scene. ΚΠ 1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. 979/1 Pharmacopœia,..a chemical laboratory (obs.). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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