The “Manual of Practical Pharmacy”, by Mª Adolfina Ruiz Martínez, edited by the University of Granada in a 885 pages long volume, is an ambitious research and compilation work in which medicines, properties and active principles used in certain pathologies are studied, “by compillating –the author says— the different properties of these compounds from a pharmaceutical point of view.”
Adolfina Ruiz Martínez says that practical pharmacy aims “to study the commonly-used medicines in some of the most frequent illnesses from a pharmaceutical/therapeutic point of view, without forgetting that the main objective is to study the medicine in detail from a physical/chemical, technological and biological aspect.”
According to the author, that is the only way to ensure “the already known characteristics of eficacy, stability and safeness ya conocidas características de eficacia, estabilidad y seguridad” after the correct production of the medicine.
The book is organised in eight didactic units of 55 chapters. The didactic units are about central nervous system (illnesses and medicines: from anxiety and psycothropic drugs to depression, insomnia, pain, alcoholism or epilesy and analgesics and anesthetics, etc.) cardiovascular system, respiratory system, renal excretor system, digestive system, hormonal system, skin and others (from allergies to cancer).
The author says that this book is the work of a Pharmacy research team that has been working on it for some years; it includes a great amount of diagrams, sketches and pictures, and it is an essential guide for Pharmacy students, graduates and professionals, as well as for anyone interested.
Further information:
Mª Adolfina Ruiz Martínez
Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology
University of Granada
Phone number: 958 243904
E-mail: adolfina@platon.ugr.es
