Medical gardens

Crop Protection, insects and weeds in fields, gardens, greenhouses, nurseries Disinfection, bacteria in homes, hospitals, on medical and dental equipment... 

Garden City, NY, Medical Examination Publishing, 1981 Snyder SH, Faillace L 2,3-Dimethoxy-4-methyl-amphetamine (STP) a new hallucinogenic drug. Science 1388 669-670, 1967 Spielewoy C, Markou A Withdrawal from chronic phencyclidine treatment induces long-lasting depression in brain reward function. Neuropsychopharmacology 28 1106-1116,2003... 

Poly(butylene terephthalate) (PBT) (1) resins are semicrystalline thermoplastics used in a wide variety of applications, most commonly in durable goods that are formed by injection molding. Applications include electronic and communications equipment, computers, televisions, kitchen and household appliances, industrial equipment, lighting systems, gardening and agricultural equipment, pumps, medical devices, food handling systems, handles, power and hand tools, bobbins and spindles, and automotive parts in both under-the-hood and exterior applications. Additionally, PBT is very widely used to form electrical connectors. PBT, through its many blended products, can be tailored to suit numerous applications. 

Uses Plasticizer in PVC flooring and other flexible PVC products (e.g., bottles, garden hoses, fishing lures, fabric coatings, flexible medical plastics, tarps, and awnings), films, and sheets in vacuum pumps. Also used in fluorescent lighting ballasts manufactured after 1979 as a replacement for PCBs (U.S. EPA, 1998). 

Lappe, M., 1982. Germs That Won t Die Medical Consequences of the Misuse of Antibiotics. Anchor Press, Garden City, NY, 246 pp. 

Akobeng AK, Gardener E. Oral 5-aminosalicylic acid for maintenance of medically-induced remission in Crohn s disease. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2005. 

The earliest evidence of human use of plants for healing dates to the Neanderthal period. In the 16th century, botanical gardens were created to grow medicinal plants for medical schools. Herbal medicine practice flourished until the 17th century, when more scientific pharmacological remedies were favored (see Thomas, 1997 Fontanarosa, 2000 and General References). 

Mitka, Mike. FDA Never Promised an Herb Garden-But Sellers and Buyers Eager to See One Grow. Journal of the American Medical Association 280 no. 18 (November 11, 1998). 

This flexible-rubbery material is most often calendered into film and sheet for clothing, luggage, raincoats, upholstery, and flooring, or extruded into garden hose, wire and cable insulation, and medical tubing. 

Bomatic, Inc. has been a producer of plastic bottles and containers since 1969. The company serves the personal care, automotive, pharmaceutical, medical, lawn and garden, food, household cleaners, and industrial chemicals markets. Production capabilities include extrusion blow moulding and injection moulding products made from HDPE, PVC, LDPE, PET, PETG, polycarbonate, polystyrene, polypropylene, and polyurethane. 

A preparation of heparin from beef liver was selected in 1942 by the Department of Biological Standards of the National Institute of Medical Research in London to serve as the provisional international standard. Quoted by (J.) E. Jorpes and S. Garden, Ref. 32. 

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