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Definition of Suppositories
1. suppository [n] - See also: suppository
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suppositories
Literary usage of Suppositories
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Therapeutics, Materia Medica, and Pharmacy: Including the Special by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1909)
"When dispensed, they should be placed in a powder-box between layers of cotton.
Bougies or Pencils, as urethral and uterine suppositories are often termed, ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1872)
"My attention was called to suppositories, and their relation to American pharmacy,
... suppositories were introduced into the British Pharmacopoeia of 1863. ..."
3. A Treatise on Pharmacy .. by Edward Parrish (1864)
"suppositories. The only officinal preparation generally prescribed in the ...
The foregoing and simple soap suppositories are formed by cutting the mass and ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1870)
"I happen to have some suppositories at home which have been made for four or five
years, ... Within a few days I thought I knew how to make suppositories, ..."
5. Principles of Pharmacy by Henry Vinecome Arny (1917)
"CHAPTER XX suppositories suppositories are solid bodies intended to introduce
... The pharmacopoeia fives a general formula for manufacture of suppositories ..."
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