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Prof. Harkishan Singh—a distinguished medicinal chemist and India’s well-known science historian with specialisation in pharmaceutical history, draws from his earlier monographic publications and presents in this book an updated and detailed account of India’s pharmaceutical history covering the period of last about 400 year. Singh provides in this book an authentic and candid account of the pharmacies of the British period, the colonial ...
Preface to the second edition. Preface to the first edition. 1. Introduction. 2. Chemical naming and graphics of organic drugs. 3. International Nonproprietary Names (INNs). 4. Physiochemical and stereochemical aspects and drug action. 5. Pharmacokinetics. 6. General anaesthetics. 7. Local anaesthetics. 8. Hypnotics and sedatives. 9. Antiepileptic drugs. 10. Opioid analgesics. 11. Antitussives. 12. Psychoactive drugs. 13. Central nervous system stimulants. 14. ...