The art of dispensing : a treatise on the methods and processes involved in compounding medical prescriptions.

Date:
1888
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The art of dispensing : a treatise on the methods and processes involved in compounding medical prescriptions. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    must also be careful to manage the adjustment of the matter so that it may fill the label pretty well. To have a label with two lines of writing at the top and three lines unoccupied at the bottom is to sacrifice its proportion. It is in this connection that a middling writer who has an eye for proportion in form may surpass a good writer in execution of a label. The free and easy writer too often trusts so much to the excellence of his work that he altogether neglects the just apportionment of its parts. It is desirable to have more than one kind of dispensing label, so that if more than one internal remedy is dispensed for a patient, or two or more patients in one family, there may be distinctiveness in the externals. Upright labels such as the following are very serviceable in this respect. These, we may say, are only half-size reproductions :— P/^ARMACEuTicAL Chemist, SHAKE THE BOTTLE BEFORE USE GOLDSMITH TERRACE. [glflA'y. It is a good thing also to have different shaped bottles, such as dispensing ' flats,' ovals, and squares. Instead of having the words ' Mixture,' ' Lotion,' &c., printed on the label it has been suggested to have indiarubber stamps for these words. This is an economical and on the whole a serviceable plan to those who cannot afford a variety of labels. In round labels there is little room for variety, but in this case it is all the more import- ant, owing to the small space for directions, to have little room wasted on the name and address. We give two specimens