Various parts of prescriptions ad their functions, handling of prescriptions, sources of errors, care required in dispensing procedures including labeling of dispensed products. Preliminary knowledge of important Latin terms used in prescriptions and their translation into English. Dispensing of Medication, Hoover. Important features of a prescription.

Metric and imperial systems of weights and measures used in prescriptions, posology, calculations of doses for infants, children, adults and elderly patients, reducing and enlarging formulae; percentage solutions, alligation methods; proof spirits; calculations involving alcohol dilutions; pH and buffer solutions, isotonic solutions; displacement value and calculations involving radio-isotopes.

Physical and chemical incompatibilities, inorganic incompatibilities including incompatibilities of metals and their salts, non-metals, acids, alkalis, organic incompatibilities. Purine bases, alkaloids, pyrazolone derivatives, amino acids quaternary ammonium compounds, carbohydrates, glycosides, anaesthetics, dyes, surface-active agents, correction of incompatibilities. Oils are immiscible with water.

May be monophasic or biphasic. For internal or external use.