Abstract
To a pharmacist, the word ‘dispensing’ has traditionally meant ‘the supply of a medicine on and in accordance with the prescription of a doctor, dentist or veterinarian’. It did not necessarily include the actual preparation of the product to a formula written by the prescriber. The mixing together of the ingredients to prepare the medicine was known as ‘compounding’, but the word ‘preparation’ is now preferred.
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Harrison, I.H. (1986). Dispensing Medicines. In: The Law on Medicines. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4141-0_10
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