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| From Out of the Past�Part II! |
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(Editor's Note: For the next few weeks, we will look at selected events/documents that have helped shape pharmacy.)
Altogether, there are 811 prescriptions in the Ebers Papyrus including salves, plasters, and poultices; snuffs, inhalations, and gargles; draughts, confections, and pills; fumigations, suppositories, and enemas.
A few are quite simple and some more complex. The following are just a few examples.
| To kill the roundworm: | | |
| Bark of the Pomegranate root | | 1 |
| Water | | 1/2 |
| Keep moist, strain, and take for a day. | | |
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| Another: | | |
| Inner of the fruit of the Caster oil tree | | 1/3 |
| Yeast | | 1/3 |
| Water | | 1/2 |
| Keep moist, strain, and take for a day. | | |
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| To cool the anus: | | |
| Onion meal | | 1/32 |
| Tail of a mouse | | 1/32 |
| Honey | | 1/4 |
| Water | | 1/3 |
| Strain and take for four days. | | |
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| Another: | | |
| Fat of the antelope | | 1 |
| Caraway | | 1 |
| Roll into a pill and put in the anus. | | |
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| Remedy to drive away the wheals from blows: | | |
| Honey | | |
| Cow's brain | | |
| Mason's clay | | |
| Linseed water | | |
| Date juice | | |
| Cook, and apply as a plaster. | | |
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| To drive out pterygium (in the eyes): | | |
| Red lead | | 1 |
| Powdered wood from Arabia | | 1 |
| Iron from Apollonopolis parva | | 1 |
| Calamine | | 1 |
| Egg of an ostrich | | 1 |
| Saltpetre from Upper Egypt | | 1 |
| Sulphur | | 1 |
| Honey | | 1 |
| Make into one and apply to the eyes. | | |
More examples next week.
Loyd V. Allen, Jr., PhD, RPh
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Pharmaceutical Compounding
Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacy Twenty-second edition
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Announcement
The FDA announces the next PCAC (Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee) meeting for November 20-21, 2017.
The PCAC will hear discussions on 6 substances nominated for inclusion on the 503A Bulk Drug Substance List. If you have a physician who utilizes any of these items to treat patients for the proposed uses, and that physician would be willing to discuss clinical decision making, please contact Cynthia Blankenship at IACP (cynthia@iacprx.org).
| Drug | Uses Reviewed |
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| Astragalus | Allergic rhinitis, asthma, diabetes, herpes simplex keratitis, wound healing. |
| L-citrulline | Hyperammonaemia due to cycle disorders. |
| Pregnenolone | Rheumatoid arthritis, hypercholesterolemia, manic and depressive symptoms of bipolar disorder and bipolar disorder with substance abuse (dual diagnosis), positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. |
| 7-keto dehydroepiandrosterone | Weight loss, Raynaud's phenomena. |
| Epigallocatechin gallate | Treatment of obesity, wound healing, corneal neovascularization, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, cardiac hypertrophy, diabetes (type 1 & 2), Parkinson's disease. |
| Resveratrol | Treatment of older adults with impaired glucose tolerance, pain. |
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Did You Know ...
�that it seems the FDA is going to "help compounding pharmacists do office-use compounding"? At least that is what some of the headlines say. However, it is only through the 503b registration that they are willing to facilitate that.
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Tip of the Week
The FDA doesn't realize that a lot of office-use compounding is done more as a service to local physicians, clinics, etc. and that registration as a 503b facility and subjecting one's facility to GMPs isn't economically feasible. It appears to be just another way for the FDA to try to get more registrants as 503b facilities and collect the fees, etc.!
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Riot at the Drug Store,
Calling all cars!
100 customers,
99 jars!
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