Word: pharmacopoeia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adds 40 new drugs and preparations and takes out 192. Some additions: aspirin, salvarsan, carbon tetrachlorid used for hookworm, some local anesthetics and a surgical solution of chlorinated soda, known as the Carrell-Dakin solution that received notoriety during the war. Whiskey and brandy, taken out of the last Pharmacopoeia, are put back in this...
Came the War. Benito caught fire of d'Annunzio, and in 1919 he said: "I yearn for a paganizing people, loving life, struggle, progress, not blindly believing in revealed truths, nay despising miraculous pharmacopoeia. It has no room in an intense movement of minds and activities for formulae, parties and men monopolizing divine 'specifics...
...heart of homeopathy. 3) The use of only a single remedy for each disease. 4) Minimum dosage, i. e., smaller doses, put up in uniform pellets, were thought to show the best curative powers. Hahnemann himself "proved" some 90 drugs, and his followers have ransacked the whole Pharmacopoeia for "similars." The method took hold, despite strong medical and official opposition, and spread rapidly in Europe. Hahnemann removed to Paris, where he was very successful until his death in 1843. The movement was introduced into the U. S. about that time and flourished for more than 60 years, but its influence...