Crossword clues for pharmacopeia
pharmacopeia
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also pharmacopoeia, "official book listing drugs and containing directions for their preparation," 1620s, from medical Latin, from Greek pharmakopoiia "preparation of drugs," from pharmakon "drug" (see pharmacy) + poiein "to make" (see poet). First used as a book title by Anutius Foesius (1528-1595) of Basel. Related: Pharmacopeial.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of pharmacopoeia English)
WordNet
n. (pharmacology) a book containing a compilation of pharmaceutical products with their formulas and methods of preparation [syn: formulary]
Usage examples of "pharmacopeia".
If Cyril wanted to live much longer, the doctor told him, he would have to give up cigarettes, alcohol and spices of all kinds, and take regular doses of the rauwolfia extracts that were all the pharmacopeia of the day had to offer for that condition.
That, however, was about the extent of his pharmacopeia and the range of his medical skills.
We may think as we will of the worth of these works, but this much is sure, that in many ways they brought about a broadening and an improvement of Greek knowledge, especially from the pharmacopeia standpoint.
I was learned then in science and philosophy, in the history of religions, in inductive and deductive logic, in liver mantic, in the shape and weight of skulls, in pharmacopeia and metallurgy, in all the useless branches of learning which gives you indigestion and melancholia before your time.