Includes index.

Contents: Community pharmacy: Scope of community pharmacy -- Roles and responsibilities of community pharmacist -- Code of ethics -- Community pharmacy management -- Importance of coding and stocking -- Questions -- Medical prescription: Legality or legibility of prescriptions -- Prescription writing and parts of prescription -- List of prescription abbreviations -- Sources of error in prescription -- Alkaloidal incompatibility -- Inventory control -- Drug interactions -- Questions -- Pharmaceutical care: The Scope of pharmaceutical care -- Practice principles -- Patients counselling -- Questions -- Health screening services: Blood pressure -- Blood sugar -- Regulation -- Clinical correlation -- Lung -- Mammalian lungs -- Cholesterol -- Physiology -- Cholesterol and triglycerides -- Device description -- OTC medicines: an introduction -- Questions -- Health education: WHO definition of health -- Family planning -- Nutrition -- Proteins -- Fats -- Obesity -- Carbohydrates -- Energy metabolism -- Vitamins -- Minerals -- Communicable disease -- Role of pharmacist in prevention of communicable disease -- Pharmacoeconomics -- Rational drug therapy -- Rational drug use -- First aid: emergency treatment in shock -- Burns -- Poisoning -- Questions.