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  2. Dextropropoxyphene - Wikipedia

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    Dextropropoxyphene [5] is an analgesic in the opioid category, patented in 1955 [6] and manufactured by Eli Lilly and Company.It is an optical isomer of levopropoxyphene.It is intended to treat mild pain and also has antitussive (cough suppressant) and local anaesthetic effects.

  3. Handbook on Drug and Alcohol Abuse - Wikipedia

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    A Handbook on Drug and Alcohol Abuse: The Biomedical Aspects by Gail Winger, Frederick G. Hofmann, and James H. Woods was published in New York by Oxford University Press in 1992. A 4th edition, updated with a chapter for "Club Drugs", was published in 2004.

  4. F. A. Davis Company - Wikipedia

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    F.A. Davis Company (F.A. Davis or Davis) is a publishing firm headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded by F. A. Davis (1850–1917). Davis publishes mostly textbooks and reference books for the medical, nursing, and health-related professions fields.

  5. Parke-Davis - Wikipedia

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    Parke-Davis is a subsidiary of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer. Although Parke, Davis & Co. is no longer an independent corporation, it was once America's oldest and largest drug maker, and played an important role in medical history. In 1970 Parke-Davis was acquired by Warner–Lambert, which in turn was acquired by Pfizer in 2000. [2]

  6. List of drugs by year of discovery - Wikipedia

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    In 1832 produced chloral hydrate, the first synthetic sleeping drug. In 1833 French chemist Anselme Payen was the first to discover an enzyme , diastase . In 1834, François Mothes and Joseph Dublanc created a method to produce a single-piece gelatin capsule that was sealed with a drop of gelatin solution.

  7. Route of administration - Wikipedia

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    Drug administration via the nasal cavity yields rapid drug absorption and therapeutic effects. [33] This is because drug absorption through the nasal passages does not go through the gut before entering capillaries situated at tissue cells and then systemic circulation and such absorption route allows transport of drugs into the central nervous ...

  8. The Serpent and the Rainbow (book) - Wikipedia

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    Davis argued that a number of factors may account for the negative results of some investigators and decried their unsubstantiated accusations of fraud, noting the variability of formulations, possible errors in the testing performed on the samples he brought back, the possibility that the tetrodotoxin-based mixture may have had ingredients ...

  9. Clandestine chemistry - Wikipedia

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    Just like modern-day drug labs, distilleries were placed in rural areas. The term moonshine generally referred to "corn whiskey", that is, a whiskey -like liquor made from corn . Today, American-made corn whiskey can be labeled or sold under that name , or as Bourbon or Tennessee whiskey , depending on the details of the production process.