BACKGROUND The 1996 Guidelines for Preparation of Sterile Products in Pharmacies of the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists (CSHP) represent the current standard of practice for sterile compounding in Canada. However, these guidelines are practice recommendations, not enforceable standards. Previous surveys of sterile compounding practices have shown that actual practice deviates markedly ...

Compounds are generally acknowledged to be formed by at least two words (e.g. Eng. taxi-driver, postman, It. divano-letto ‘sofa-bed’, camposanto ‘cemetery’, Fr. tire bouchon ‘cork-screw’, timbre-poste ‘stamp’, etc.). Though this definition does not always hold true, it is nonetheless descriptively valid for the core of compounding processes. Since we have reasons to believe that the classificat...

Gentlemen,?I take the liberty of submitting to you several drawings which illustrate the condition of the entrance to the vagina, and especially of the hymen, after cohabitation and childbearing. It is known to you, that hitherto the general opinion has been that the hymen by the first cohabitation was torn, and that the cicatricial retracting remains of the same formed the carunculee myrtiform...