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also known as compounding tablets, pharmacist used them to compound prescription.
Dispensing tablets (DT)
– used in extemporaneous preparations of parenteral solutions. No longer available.
Hypodermic tablets (HT)
are discoid shaped solid containing the medicinal agent in suitable flavored base. They are placed in the mouth where they are slowly dissolved.
Lozenges/Troches/ Pastilles
are lozenges type of oral solid dosage form with a short stick inserted into it which produces local effect in the mouth.
Lollipops
- small, round, solid dosage form containing medicinal agents and intended for oral administration.
Pills
related to capsules in as much as they provide an edible container for the oral administration of solid drugs. A kind of wafer capsule formerly used by pharmacists for presenting an unpleasant-tasting drug. These are molded from rice paper.
Cachets
are small, sterile cylinders formed by compression from medicated masses
Pellets
semi solid preparations intended for external application to the skin/mucous membranes, usually contain medicinal substance
Ointments
viscous liquid or semi solid emulsions of O/W or W/O type. O/W type includes shaving creams, hand creams, foundation cream. W/O type creams include cold creams and emollient creams
Creams
are semisolid systems consisting of dispersion made up of either small inorganic particles or large organic molecules enclosing and interpenetrated by a liquid.
Gels
(transdermal patches) deliver drugs directly through the skin and into the bloodstream.
Transdermal preparations
are solid dosage form intended for insertion into body orifices (rectum, vagina, or urethra)
Suppositories and Inserts
are homogeneous mixtures of one or more solutes dispersed in a dissolving medium (solvent).
Solutions
used mainly as a vehicle and as a solvent for the desired flavoring or medicinal ingredients
Water
clear saturated aqueous solutions of volatile oils used mainly as flavored or perfumed vehicles
Aromatic water (medicated water)
inorganic acids and certain acids, of minor significance as therapeutic agents but are of greater importance in chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Aqueous acids
aqueous solution directed against a part or into a cavity of the body. They function as a cleansing agent or antiseptic agent
Douches
can be retention or evacuation enemas. Evacuation enemas are rectal preparations employed to evacuate the bowel. Retention enemas influences the general system by absorption or to affect locally the seat of disease.
Enemas
aqueous solutions used for treating the nasopharynx by forcing air from the lungs through gargle which is held in the throat
Gargles
aqueous solutions which are most often used for their deodorizing, refreshing and antiseptic effect.
Mouthwashes
