Description

Contents of the book:

Part 1: General Dispensing

• Introduction
• Types of Dispensed Preparation
• Containers and Closures
• Labelling
• Weights and Measures
• Fundamental Operations
• Colour and Flavour
• Calculations
• Solutions
• Suspensions
• Emulsions and Creams
• Powders and Oral Unit-dosage Forms
• Ointments, Pastes and Jellies
• Suppositories and Pessaries
• Incompatibility
• Dispensing of Proprietaries and Manufacture of Nostrums
• Surgical Dressings
• Medical Gases

Part 2: Sterilisation Practice

• Microbiological Aspects of Sterilisation Processes
• The Formulation of Injections
• Containers and Closures
• Sterilisation by Heat
• The Preparation of Heat-sterilised Injections
• Aseptic Techniques
• Sterility Testing
• Aseptic Processing
• Gaseous Sterilisation
• Sterilisation by Radiations
• Ophthalmic Products
• Sterilisation of Equipment and other Articles

Appendixes