The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 272 No 7281 p14
3/10 January 2004

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Phenytoin rope!

From Mr C. Goalen, MRPharmS

I fear that Arthur Williams’s novel solution for naming new drugs (PJ, 20/27 December 2003, p841) has a poor prognosis. It is, you might say, a “road map” for bringing some sanity to the complexities of pharmaceutical nomenclature. Alas, recent trials of this genre in the world have not proved fruitful. However, I hope he will take heart on hearing that, as was suggested some 45 summers ago when we both worked at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, I keep a phenytoin rope in my boot in case the car goes in fits and starts.

Clive Goalen
Harrogate, North Yorkshire

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