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A Spoonful of Sugar
1,001 Quotations for the Pharmacist and Pharmaceutical Scientist
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Find out WHO said WHAT about pharmacists and the work they do

A Spoonful of Sugar is a collection of quotations from sources as diverse as Shakespeare, Pope John Paul II, and Gilbert and Sullivan that comment on the work and profession of pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists. This enlightening book is divided into 30 chapters by individual topics and grouped by subject matter that includes medicines at the pharmacist's disposal, the adversaries he faces, his labors, and the scientific basis of modern medicines. The quotes which are also indexed by author reference everything from aspirin to coughs to emulsions, providing an enlightening read that doubles as a quick and reliable classroom resource.

Editors Ray Rowe and Joseph Chamberlain draw on their combined experience of nearly 70 years working in the pharmaceutical industry and pharmaceutical publishing to present more than 1,000 entries from scientists and health professionals, educators and economists, clerics and poets even advertising slogans! Their criteria for selection is just as diverse, listing quotes that are thought-provoking, influential, witty, memorable, and even pithy. The editors provide a detailed index of keywords to help you find a half-remembered quote and whenever possible, a brief reference to the source of the quotation is included.

Some examples from A Spoonful of Sugar:

"Give me an ounce of civit, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination." Shakespeare

"A skilful leech is better far than half a hundred men of war." Samuel Butler, English satirist

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man of very moderate ability may be a good physician, if he devotes himself faithfully to the work." Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patients while Nature cures the disease." Voltaire

"There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up." Rex Stout, American writer

"When meditating over a disease, I never think of finding a remedy for it, but instead, a means of preventing it." Louis Pasteur

and many more!

A Spoonful of Sugar is an entertaining and enlightening reference resource for practicing pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists, and for anyone interested in the pharmaceutical fields.


Contents:

About the Editors
Foreword (Alexander T. Florence)
Preface
Chapter 1. The Physic of the Field
Chapter 2. For Medicinal Purposes Only
Chapter 3. All in the Mind
Chapter 4. The Alchemist at Work
Chapter 5. A Good Experiment
Chapter 6. Coughs and Sneezes
Chapter 7. Damned Lies and Statistics
Chapter 8. Desperate Diseases
Chapter 9. Many Medicines, Few Cures
Chapter 10. Fresh Air and Exercise
Chapter 11. Pills, Potions, and Lotions
Chapter 12. Prevention Is Better . . .
Chapter 13. The Personal Touch
Chapter 14. The Age of Science?
Chapter 15. No Theory Is Sacred
Chapter 16. The Day of the Small Things
Chapter 17. Amiable Companions
Chapter 18. Business As Usual
Chapter 19. A Catalyst for Change
Chapter 20. Thinking Machines
Chapter 21. Decimals Have a Point
Chapter 22. Doses of Happiness
Chapter 23. Stick to the Facts
Chapter 24. Knowledge Is Power
Chapter 25. A Little Learning
Chapter 26. Publish and Be Damned
Chapter 27. The Air That We Breathe
Chapter 28. Temples of Medicine
Chapter 29. A Piller of the Community
Chapter 30. From the Cradle to the Grave
Author Index
Subject Index
Reference Notes Included


PRODUCT DETAILS

ISBN-13: 9780789030757
Publisher: Haworth Press Inc
Publication date: January, 2007
Pages: 284
Weight: 431g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Pharmacology

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