Download or read book Lilly's Hand Book of Pharmacy and Therapeutics (Classic Reprint) written by Eli Lilly and Company and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lilly's Hand Book of Pharmacy and Therapeutics Having the closest relations with the best sources of foreign crude drugs, with direct surveillance of the col lection of indigenous supplies, very largely obtained through their own collectors, the usual course through the markets with consequent uncertainty of quality is avoided. Not content, however, under any circumstances to accept any drug at its face, it must pass the most rigid examination, botanically in all cases and chemically where practicable, in order that the resulting extract may be of the highest attainable. Quality. Scientific depart ments for these purposes were introduced here in advance of any other pharmaceutical laboratory and here were produced the first Fluid Extracts standardized to definite strength. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.