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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 ...
Practical Pharmacology and clinical Pharmacy is a new book which describes in detail the experimental aspects of pharmacology and incorporates the basic principles of clinical pharmacy practice exercises needed for undergraduate and postgraduate students of pharmacy. Both these aspects have become very important in the changing global scenario of drug discovery and the role of pharmacist in clinical pharmacy. The clinical pharmacy aspect has been covered under a ...
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. ...
Metals and inorganic salts have been an important component of the medicinal compendia both of the ancient systems of medicine as also of the modern system. In Sidha system of medicine, which is one of the important indigenous systems of medicine still widely practised in India, big weight-age is given to the use of metals as medicaments alone or processed with plants and plant extracts. Its formularies describe at great length the methods of treating metallic ...