Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms
Subtitle: Parenteral Medications, Volume I (Parenteral Medications, 1)
Contributors: Kenneth E. Avis (Editor); Herbert A. Lieberman (Editor); Leon Lachman (Editor)
Edition: 2nd, Revised and Expanded edition
Publisher: Marcel Dekker
Published: January 15, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780824785765
Subjects: Industrial quality control; Pharmaceutical technology; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Technology, Pharmaceutical; Pharmacology; Pharmacy; Medical / Pharmacology; Infusions, Parenteral; Parenteral solutions
First sentence: When Christopher Wren sharpened the hollow quill of a feather, attached it to an animal bladder, and used this crude device to inject an equally crude extract of opium into the vein of a dog in 1656, neither he nor his contemporaries could have envisioned the developments that have brought to humankind the clean, pure products and the sophisticated devices used today to inject medications parenterally.