(Editor's Note: Continuing this week looking at selected events/documents that have helped shape pharmacy.)

Can you read these prescriptions?

This is a copy of a page from the Ebers Papyrus:

Examples of substances mentioned in the Ebers Papyrus and still in use in some form today include the following:

Loyd V. Allen, Jr., PhD, RPh
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Pharmaceutical Compounding
Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacy Twenty-second edition

Did You Know ...

�that the FDA has released a new Guidance titled Technical Considerations for Additive Manufactured Medical Devices? (Note: Additive Manufactured refers to 3D printing.)

Tip of the Week

With the future possibility of using 3D printing for individual patient medications, the medical profession is already using 3D printing for patient medical devices, and this is the object of the Guidance. The terminology "Additive Manufacturing" is used for 3D printing and is a process that builds an object by sequentially building 2-dimensional (2D) layers and joining each to the previous layer.

For more information related to 3D printing for patient medications, see the following articles published in the International Journal of Pharmaceutical Compounding:

Basics of Compounding: 3D Printing-Pharmacy Applications, Part 1 (Mar/Apr 2017)
Basics of Compounding: 3D Printing-Pharmacy Applications, Part 2 (May/Jun 2017)
Basics of Compounding: 3D Printing-Pharmacy Applications, Part 3 (Jul/Aug 2017)
Basics of Compounding: 3D Printing-Pharmacy Applications-Effect of Geometric Shape (Sep/Oct 2017)

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Looking Back

Substitutes and
Imitations,
Send 'em to
Your wife's relations!
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