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Pharmaceutical   /fˌɑrməsˈutɪkəl/   Listen
Pharmaceutical

adjective
1.
Of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists.  Synonym: pharmaceutic.
2.
Of or relating to drugs used in medical treatment.



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"Pharmaceutical" Quotes from Famous Books



... somewhat as he glanced at the drug clerk. That individual was somewhat shorter than his opponent, but if the banking representative was well developed, he of the pharmaceutical persuasion was magnificent. ...
— Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales • Charles B. Cory

... has so long held with credit and even distinction. In France, for example, M. Mehu, whose name is familiar to readers of this journal, is looked upon as one of the leading authorities on morbid urine and its analysis, and yet a list of goodly pharmaceutical papers shows that, as the medical analyst, he has not forgotten his ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 • Various

... well tell you. My husband and I lived in America after our marriage. He was a good biotechnician and had a job with one of the big pharmaceutical companies. Only he—went to camp. Later he died or was shot, I don't know ...
— Security • Poul William Anderson

... physiological result from a psychological reaction. The unsuspecting patient declares, "I've never felt so good in my life." Yet, this would never have happened if he didn't think he was taking the marvelous new medicine. A recent scientific study by one of the leading pharmaceutical houses concluded that one third of the effectiveness of any medication depends upon the faith and trust that the patient ...
— A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis • Melvin Powers

... denominated, was one of Robert Browning's earlier poems. In it he causes the fifteenth-century alchemist and forerunner of all modern pharmaceutical chemistry, to declare that as the result of ...
— 'Tis Sixty Years Since • Charles Francis Adams

... 1853," says Berdoe, "I saw among the more precious drugs in the shop of a pharmaceutical chemist at Leamington a bottle labelled in the ordinary way with the words, Moss from a Dead-Man's Skull. This has long been used, superstitiously, dried, powdered, and taken as snuff, for headache and bleeding at ...
— Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing • George Barton Cutten

... be taken as a starting point just here. He is known in the history of medicine "for the impetus he gave to the development of pharmaceutical chemistry, but he was also the author of a visionary and theosophic system of philosophy." He believed in the influence of the stars upon men, but he enlarged upon the old astrologic faiths. "He believed the human body was ...
— Modern Religious Cults and Movements • Gaius Glenn Atkins

... especially in Greece itself. Upon this foundation the knowledge of anatomy and the science of medicine has been built up.[14] But in many other ways the practice of mummification exerted far-reaching effects, directly and indirectly, upon the development of medical and pharmaceutical knowledge and methods.[15] ...
— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith



Words linked to "Pharmaceutical" :   medicine, pharmaceutics, thrombolytic agent, medicament, thrombolytic, pharmacy, clot buster, pharmacist, medicinal drug, medication



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