Volume 1
The extra pharmacopœia of Martindale and Westcott.
- William Martindale
- Date:
- 1920-1921
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The extra pharmacopœia of Martindale and Westcott. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The Parathyroid glands are viewed as regulators of Calcium metabolism, and they are thought to act on certain toxic substances, rendering them harmless. Clinically, the administration of Para¬ thyroid is thought to restore the Calcium balance of the blood and produce improvement in general health. Blood Transfusion.—-We have a section on this operation, which may be useful on occasion. Its conduct was attended with brilliant results during the war. Poisons*—The Poisons Schedule is brought up-to-date. An important recommendation by Sir Wm. Willcox that the sale of Arsenical preparations should be limited on the part of the seller to qualified pharmacists, and on the part of the purchaser to those who obtain a licence, formed the subject of a resolution carried by the British Medical Association. This would repeal the 1908 Act so far as the sale, e.g., of Arsenical Weed Killers by ironmongers, etc., is concerned. DANGEROUS DRUGS ACT, 1920, AND DAN¬ GEROUS DRUGS AND POISONS (AMEND¬ MENT) A Cl, 1923. We give a most thorough synopsis of these two enactments, and the subsidiary Statutory Rules and Orders, and have arranged in the form of tables permissible limits for Official and semi-Official preparations in Mixtures, Injections, Spray Solutions, Pills and Tablets, Lozenges, Liniments and Lotions, Suppositories, Bougies, etc., which will form a guide to practitioners and others. Added to this, we have spent many hours in going systematically through our pages, indicating by- means of the sign [§] those “ drugs ” which come within the meaning of the Acts in respect of their content of Morphine, Cocaine, Ecgonine, Diamorphine and Medicinal Opium. We have gone a step further, showing by means of examples what the practitioner has to do when prescribing these drugs or preparations of them in excess of the proportions specified in the Acts. For those who are not sufficiently initiated, the examples of a dentist’s and a veterinary surgeon’s prescription are also of importance, and, in conclusion, there is an example of a “ Signed Order ” by a qualified practitioner ordering an assortment of [p jj poisons and Dangerous Drugs, required for the purposes of his profession, to be sent to him by post, and complying with Section 3 of the 1923 Act. It may be to an extent gratuitous, but our criticism of these network enactments is that they are unreasonable, both to the medical practitioner, the pharmacist, and, in consequence, to the patient. It would be easy to show that a person who is ill and in pain is subjected to increased and unnecessary suffering in conse¬ quence of some formality not having been carried out. The onus is on the pharmacist in the matter of supplies, and it is our experience](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31360440_0001_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
