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Patent medicine, A patent medicine means medicine in respect of which a patent is in force, Aphali Pharmaceuticals v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1989 SC 2227 (2235): (1989) 4 SCC 2227.Patent or proprietary medicines are--(1) those enumerated in the schedule to the (English) Medicine Stamp Act, 1812; (2) all other medicines intended for human use and claimed to be made by a secret process or protected by letters-patent, or which have been advertised as beneficial to the prevention, cure, or relief of any ailment or disorder affecting the human body. Under the (English) Medicine Stamp Acts, 1802 and 1804, duties were imposed on each bottle or package according to the price. These duties are payable by the manufacturers and collected by means of labels of appropriate amounts, so affixed to the packages as to be destroyed when they are opened. The duties were doubled by the Finance Act, 1915: this increased rate has been continued from year to year. The schedule to the Act of 1812 exempts f...
Medicinal preparation
Medicinal preparation, includes all drugs which are a remedy or prescription prepared for internal or external use of human beings or animals and all substances intended to be used for or in the treatment, mitigation or prevention of disease in human beings or animals. [Medicinal and Toilet Preparations (Excise Duties) Act, 1955 (16 of 1955), s. 2 (g)]The expression 'medicinal preparation' is defined in s. 2(g) as: 'Medicinal preparation' includes all drugs which are a remedy or prescription prepared for internal or external use of human beings or animals and all substances intended to be used for or in the treatment, mitigation or prevention of disease in human beings or animals, Southern Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals v. State of Kerala, AIR 1981 SC 1863: (1981) 4 SCC 391: (1982) 1 SCR 519.Medicinal preparations, in order to come within the ambit of 'medicinal preparations', the intended use of the article must be for treatment, mitigation or prevention of disease. The article must by...
Medicine, adulteration of
Medicine, adulteration of. See ADULTERATION.It means modern scientific medicine in all its branches and includes surgery and obstetrics, but does not include veterinary medicine and surgery. [Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956), s. 2 (f)]The definition of the word 'medicine' in s. 2(f) of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 is too wide to determine if it includes cardiology. It is also not necessary to go into the dictionary meaning of the expression as it is clear from the relevant Regulations that medicine and surgery are general subjects and Cardiology and Orthopaedics are their respective specialities. Where general subject such as medicine or surgery is being dealt with in a regulation, the specialist branch under it would be covered, though not vice versa, because if one wants to hold a post in the specialist branch he must of necessity have teaching experience in the specialist branch. Undisputably, one qualifying for M.D. (Medicine) has to learn the subject of Cardi...
Patent or proprietary medicine
Patent or proprietary medicine, means--(i) in relation to Ayurvedic, Siddha or Unani Tibb systems of medicine all formulations containing only such ingredients mentioned in the formulae described in the authoritative books of Ayurveda, Siddha or Unani Tibb systems of medicine specified in the First Schedule, but does not include a medicine which is administered by parenteral route and also a formulation included in the authoritative books as specified in clause (a);(ii) in relation to any other systems of medicine, a drug which is a remedy or prescription presented in a form ready for internal or external administration of human beings or animals and which is not included in the edition of the Indian Pharmacopoeia for the time being or any other Pharmacopoeia authorised in this behalf by the Central Government after consultation with the Drugs Technical Advisory Board constituted under s. 5. [Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 (23 of 1940), s. 3 (h)]The expression 'patent or proprietary med...
Forensic medicine
Forensic medicine, the science which applies the principles and practice of the different branches of medicine to the elucidation of doubtful questions in a court of justice. It comprehends, in a more extensive sense, medical police, or those medical precepts which may prove useful to the legislature or the magistracy. This science is also termed medical jurisprudence, legal medicine, and state medicine. Consult the works of Taylor, Guy, Beck, or Tidy on the subject....
Patent and proprietary medicines
Patent and proprietary medicines, a 'patent medicine' means medicine in respect of which a patent is in force, 'proprietary' means of a proprietor, that is, holding proprietary rights. Patent means a grant of some privilege, property, or authority made by the government or sovereign of a country to one or more individuals. A proprietor is one who has the legal right or exclusive title to anything. On a comparison of the earlier Explanation and the substituted Explanation earlier, Patent and proprietary meant a drug. In the substituted explanation, it means any medicinal preparation, Aphali Pharmaceuticals Ltd. v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1989 SC 2227 (2235): (1989) 4 SCC 378: (1989) Supp 1 SCR 129....
Homeopathic medicines
Homeopathic medicines, includes any drug which is recorded in Homoeopathic proving or therapeutic efficacy of which has been established through long clinical experience as recorded in authoritative Homeopathic literature of India and abroad and which is prepared according to the techniques of Homeopathic pharmacy and covers combination of ingredients of such Homeopathic medicines but does not include a medicine which is administered by parenteral route. [Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945, R. 2 (dd)]...
Medicine or drug
Medicine or drug, means--(i) all medicines for internal or external use of human beings or animals;(ii) all substances intended to be used for or in the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation or prevention of diseases in human beings or animals;(iii) all substances intended to be used for or in the maintenance of public health, or the prevention or control of any epidemic disease among human beings or animals;(iv) insecticides, germicides, fungicides, weedicides and all other substances intended to be used for the protection or preservation of plants;(v) all chemical substances which re ordinarily used as intermediates in the preparation or manufacture of any of the medicines or substances above referred to. [Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970), s. 2 (1) (l)]...
Medicinal cannabis
Medicinal cannabis, that is, medicinal hemp, means any extract or tincture of cannabis (hemp). [Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (61 of 1985), s. 2 (xii)]...
Proprietary Medicines
Proprietary Medicines. See PATENT MEDICINE....
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